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Attachment decoded: Tallship Grossherzogin Elisabeth -

Another steel hull?

Not at all a criticism, but with all the work that goes into a
quality scan, why are you limiting the size to just 1024 x 768?
Or, do you save to a much larger size and reduce your pictures
for posting?

When I started I was on dial-up and downloading large pictures costed lots
of money.
I thinlk 1024x768 is a good size, why should I scan them larger?
My first scans were made with a small handscanner, only black and white but
monitors become larger, computers faster etc.

Also, what graphics program(s) do you use? How do you control the
noise that results from scanning a book or calendar photo that is
printed with the half-tone printing process where the scanner
picks up the half-tone dots as random noise? Noise and
detail/sharpness are mutually exclusive so reducing noise often
reduces detail/sharpness.

A lot of questions, I use PSP 9 just like you and use the same tools you
mention down here.
Important is a good scanner of course, I just bought a new one, the Canon
Canoscan 88800F, before I had an older version of the canoscan that can scan
negatives and slides too.
The new scannner has so much options, I have to learn a lot about it.
I even bougt a 20 inch TFT monitor, before I had a 15 inch TFT.

I use PSP 9 for all my work even though it is getting long in the
tooth. It has an outstanding tool called DCNR (Digital Camera
Noise Reduction) that can also be used effectively for scans and
also includes a better sharpen function than the standard unsharp
mask.

I think we do a lot alike.
When the scan looks good to me I will post them.
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Greetings
Bouler (The Netherlands)