Comments | bad_influence: Scanner advice

bad_influence

Scanner advice

Apr 04, 2008 13:55

Alright any techies out there. I've been meaning to do this for awhile, but as no money was coming in for awhile, really didn't have the means to do it by. Anyways, the all in one printer we have is not cutting it as an actual art scanner for me. It's alright for personal silly stuff, but considering my classes and also that my pencils are ( Read more... )

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athene April 5 2008, 16:44:20 UTC

At the digitizaton labs at school we use Epson scanners. They can easily handle both greyscale and color and can take a very high DPI. They also have slide trays. What really is nice is the Epson scanning software is highly adjustable when you use "professional" mode.

As for larger than 8.5x11, if you have a newer version of Adobe Photoshop (CS2 or CS3), it has a stiching function where it can stick together multiple images if they have overlapping pixels.

Some good resources about what to look for in a scanner:
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/scanners.html
http://www.scantips.com/

Yes, I am going to school to be a digital librarian...how can you tell?

bad_influence April 5 2008, 17:41:46 UTC

Eee, thanks. I had been looking at the Epsons and been debating between them and the Canons until I saw the Canons only did 8 bit external. :(

And I feel like such a dumb artist. I thought that there wasn't that function in CS2 just CS3. _-_ Just went in and realized that photomerge does exist in my program. Dur.

Thanks for the advice! I think I'll definitely check out my Epson options a bit more now.