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I am in the process to archive all my slides on to CD. Recently I bought a Nikon LS 2000. The aim is to make a master digital copy of my slides, share my pictures through a website and be able to print high quality A4 size. I have been doing different test using multi sample 1,4 with bit depth 8, using different resolution 600,1000,2000,2700. I printed them on to a laser printer and there is not much difference on the result. What will be the best scanning configuration for my purposes? Any suggestions for a good software to archive properly your slides on to CD, easy to use and search


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May 05, 2001

 

doug Nelson
  I'm doing exactly the same thing. I bought the Nikon as well because the HP S-20 can't handle many slides.
I archive at the best possible quality. I scan at 2700. I do any tonal and color correction in the 16-bit mode, then I change to 8-bit. I don't multi-sample unless a slide has real shadow problems. All sides don't need it. Go into Image/Image Size and scale to 300 ppi, which is about an 8 x 10. Don't apply USM until you want to print them. Then burn them to CD as TIFs. Never change to JPEG unless you're gonna put them on the web or send as an e-mail attachment. To change to JPEG, change the color profile to sRGB first. I like having the original on a CD-R, because I can't screw it up by doing a Save instead of a Save As.

Archive your high ppi scans. You can always JPEG 'em later. You never know when you might want a print or when someone might want to buy your image.

Try an Epson 890 or 1290 printer. Give your shots a judicious amount of Unsharp Mask. Feed the printer your 2700 dpi scans scaled to 300 ppi. You will then see a photo quality inkjet print.


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June 14, 2001

 
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