- Aug 15, 2004
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I will undertake a process to digitally archive old photographs I have ran across over the years. A lot but not all of the photos are black and white and from various news papers over the 20th century.
My question is what the best settings to scan these in are. I have tried 1200dpi but this makes the average photo about 50mb which is too large for my storage capabilities. So what are the best/recommended settings for saving history like this and what is the target file size I should shoot for. Never been big into scanning photographs to a digital format but I have to start somewhere. I have been told to knock the settings down (mainly dpi) until the size is about 10mb, which I can handle on the storage end.
I basically want to save them with enough to work with if someone wants to digitally enhance or clean them up in the future.
Any recommendations for doing this or tips/pointers?
My question is what the best settings to scan these in are. I have tried 1200dpi but this makes the average photo about 50mb which is too large for my storage capabilities. So what are the best/recommended settings for saving history like this and what is the target file size I should shoot for. Never been big into scanning photographs to a digital format but I have to start somewhere. I have been told to knock the settings down (mainly dpi) until the size is about 10mb, which I can handle on the storage end.
I basically want to save them with enough to work with if someone wants to digitally enhance or clean them up in the future.
Any recommendations for doing this or tips/pointers?