184 Pictures, Lines, and Shapes
• For an image that will end up on a web page, it's possible to get great
results scanning at 100dpi, using exactly the screen dimensions you
need. If you're going to edit the image, increase the dpi to be on the
safe side.
• For line art and halftone images, save as a black-and-white TIFF,
PCX, or GIF.
• For greyscale photographic images, scan using greyscales and save
as a greyscale TIFF file. If you have a colour scanner, save a colour
TIFF. You can resize these images and still maintain reasonable
quality, provided you don't make them significantly larger than the
original. In general, the number of greyscales or colours is a more
important issue than the actual resolution (dpi).
• If you want your image to use lossless compression, either scan as png
or as TIF and then convert it to png within your publication.
• To obtain images of smaller file sizes, scan as jpg at 200dpi at the
highest quality.
• Depending on your scanner software, your may be able to perform
initial adjustments right at the source (e.g., adjustment of levels).
Often you can de-screen images to eliminate possible moiré patterns
(interference between the regular dot patterns in printed images and
the scanner’s path). If your scanner software doesn’t provide de-
screening, try using the PhotoLab's Gaussian Blur filter to remove
moiré.
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