Week two of DFC was the educating of the etiquette of scanning.
Images required for glossy magazine print and commercial printing are scanned in at 300 dpi. 150-200 dpi is required for the use of home inkjet printers and 72-96 dpi for the use of images for web or email.
After issues with my HP scanner at home, I ventured to my neighbours very efficient scanner (brand unknown). After hitting scan on the machine itself, a window opened up on the the desktop. This offered me the option to scan an image or a document. As the homework task was to scan 7 objects and textiles, I figured that these scans would be more appropriately scanned as images. Scanning as a document is specifically for mostly textual information.
Below is a screen shot of 'Save for web and devices' on photoshop. When saving in this method, it gives the publisher the ability to optimise the image for publication on the web (best at 72dpi).
the 4 images of the scarf below are at 4 different qualities available to save at. There are obvious quality differences between the original sized image to the lowest quality (15).
There is also the option here to save as .jpeg, .gif and .png files.
Below are the images scanned in on 300dpi, then optimised for publishing on the web, by being reduced to 72dpi.
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