Photos Question

**KayfabeMan** · 05-19-2007, 02:02 AM

Okie dokie.

Recently, I decided to take a bunch of my 35mm prints and scan them to my computer. I have stacks of wrestling pics taking up so much space, so I had figured I could scan them to the computer and then put them on a disc; and should I want to make prints of them down the road for anything [like sigs] - I can.

Well, I scanned them. But I have a problem.

Each file / photo is showing up as 600 or more MB. Which is obviously some-what problematic, seeing as these discs hold only 700 MB on each disc.

So is there something I can do that will enable me to fit many of these pics on a CD, but allow me to keep quality enough to print these at some point in the future should I want a quality print from it??

**Vietnamese Crippler** · 05-19-2007, 02:49 AM

I think you have to change the settings for your scanner to scale down the quality of the scan.

That and get a digital camera

**KayfabeMan** · 05-19-2007, 03:11 AM

Got a digital, just got all these old pics sitting around from like 1990 through 1999 / 2000'ish. Most I have in a photo album, but I'd need like 50 albums for all these pics, so I'd rather discerize them if I can.

Will scaling down the quality of the scan reduce the quality of a print if I want one in the future?

**Vietnamese Crippler** · 05-19-2007, 06:10 AM

I'm not an expert on scanners, but it is pretty much a sure bet that if you scale down the scan, it will scale down the quality.

**Xero** · 05-19-2007, 12:14 PM

The pictures shouldn't be taking up that much space, you may have it set at an ultra high DPI. To get decent prints you can get away with 300 DPI (assuming they're regular 4x6's/5x7's or somewhere around there). They shouldn't be much over 5MB or so at worst.

What type of image files are they? .bmp, .jpg? Also, if you know, what's the pixel resolution? Also, did you crop them to the picture? Or did you just leave them to the default everything including the background (assuming the scanner doesn't auto-crop)?

05-19-2007, 02:02 AM	#1
KayfabeMan TPWW's Glass Ceiling Posts: 5,793	Photos Question Okie dokie. Recently, I decided to take a bunch of my 35mm prints and scan them to my computer. I have stacks of wrestling pics taking up so much space, so I had figured I could scan them to the computer and then put them on a disc; and should I want to make prints of them down the road for anything [like sigs] - I can. Well, I scanned them. But I have a problem. Each file / photo is showing up as 600 or more MB. Which is obviously some-what problematic, seeing as these discs hold only 700 MB on each disc. So is there something I can do that will enable me to fit many of these pics on a CD, but allow me to keep quality enough to print these at some point in the future should I want a quality print from it??

05-19-2007, 12:14 PM	#5
Xero He's Here Posts: 60,735	The pictures shouldn't be taking up that much space, you may have it set at an ultra high DPI. To get decent prints you can get away with 300 DPI (assuming they're regular 4x6's/5x7's or somewhere around there). They shouldn't be much over 5MB or so at worst. What type of image files are they? .bmp, .jpg? Also, if you know, what's the pixel resolution? Also, did you crop them to the picture? Or did you just leave them to the default everything including the background (assuming the scanner doesn't auto-crop)? Last edited by Xero; 05-19-2007 at 12:16 PM.

05-19-2007, 02:49 AM	#2
Vietnamese Crippler Unnecessarily awesome Posts: 8,323	I think you have to change the settings for your scanner to scale down the quality of the scan. That and get a digital camera

05-19-2007, 03:11 AM	#3
KayfabeMan TPWW's Glass Ceiling Posts: 5,793	Got a digital, just got all these old pics sitting around from like 1990 through 1999 / 2000'ish. Most I have in a photo album, but I'd need like 50 albums for all these pics, so I'd rather discerize them if I can. Will scaling down the quality of the scan reduce the quality of a print if I want one in the future?

05-19-2007, 06:10 AM	#4
Vietnamese Crippler Unnecessarily awesome Posts: 8,323	I'm not an expert on scanners, but it is pretty much a sure bet that if you scale down the scan, it will scale down the quality.