myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 10:15:55 AM
What program do you use for compressing your photos?
I have tried everything and my print comes out blurry everytime I compress them at all. I am now using Irfanview and compressing to 90 but when I changed the setting for larger pix today they are still 85 to 90,000 bytes.
I noticed yours are much smaller bytes but larger images, and the print always comes out perfect.
Would you mind sharing the program you use for scanning and/or compressing?
I just can't keep the writing on them crisp no matter what I try to do.
I've also got a whole stack of movie stills, vintage ads etc and they are coming out even worse than my postcards.
[ edited by myfavorites4u on Jul 17, 2007 10:18 AM ]
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 10:22:22 AM
PS: If you don't want to share and keep yours looking much much better than the competition I would certainly understand. lol
You two have the BEST looking images of any of the postcard sellers!
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etexbill
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posted on July 17, 2007 11:32:19 AM
Not the ones you asked for advice, but I use Irfan. And I change to 500 pixels. Works fine. I always change to pixels not inches. 500 pixels is great for uploading photos and for viewing.
I also sell postcards under etexbill.
[ edited by etexbill on Jul 17, 2007 11:32 AM ]
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etexbill
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posted on July 17, 2007 11:34:28 AM
I also scan the backs of cards with writing at 300 DPI and then compress to 500 pixels with Irfan.
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neglus
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posted on July 17, 2007 11:41:54 AM
Yikes - I don't think we do anything different. We both use IRFAN - I scan at about the same size I want the images to be (about 700 pixels) which is about 125 dpi. I have a microtek scanner and Jane has Epsom - they work about the same. Jane operates her scanner right from IRFAN - I open my scans with IRFAN and then crop, rotate, straighten out and save at 80% resolution. Hope that helps.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 11:58:47 AM
I have an epson 2480 scanner so maybe Jane can share her settings.
I have mine set on custom size and don't set anything else through epson. I do the compression and the sharp etc in Irfanview. I also do the scanning through Irfan. I scan 15 or 20 pages of scans at a time (3 per page) and then crop. I set the size to 60% of original. Maybe that is what I'm doing wrong.
They never look clear and the print is always fuzzy. And, my smaller fuzzy pix are 98,000 bytes while your large clear pix are only 47,000 to 58,000...so I must be doing something wrong.
After I crop I save at 90% (the save setting in Irfan using the sliding scale)
[ edited by myfavorites4u on Jul 17, 2007 12:04 PM ]
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 12:19:30 PM
etex...thank you for you help as well. Your images also look very nice but I would prefer the super large ones if I could get them compressed enough to load quickly without losing quality.
My auction service doesn't allow the click to enlarge feature.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 12:25:38 PM
Neglus,
I'm halfway there.
I reduced the dpi to 125 (was 200) and the writing is perfectly clear.
But the image is still 222,701 bytes large which would cause slow loading.
And, when I compress it becomes fuzzy again.
It's not very large in size (smaller than yours) but huge in bytes even at 125 dpi.
Any idea why?
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neglus
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posted on July 17, 2007 12:29:46 PM
Maybe Jane will see this (not sure what she's up to and her phone reception has been bad). It sounds to me like you are reducing the size to 60% and then increasing it again whic might account for the blurriness. Try scanning at 150% and then save at 80% to condense.
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neglus
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posted on July 17, 2007 12:32:02 PM
I scan at 100%, dpi 125 (making images about 1.5 times larger than originals. Then I save at 80% making the file size manageable (I try to keep my image size around 700 pixels wide so I can use the ebay header and side bar without having to scroll.)
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 12:42:36 PM
Thank you!!!!!!
That did it.
I think the main difference was in the dpi. When I reduced it to 125 then it cleared the original scan up.
Then, I changed the settings on irfanview to save at 80% and I can't tell any difference in the two images. But, one is now around 70,000 bytes and the original is 280,000 bytes.
I really appreciate the help!
My daughter teaches 1st grade here. What grade will your daughter be teaching? I can't believe she wound up here...small world after all.
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neglus
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posted on July 17, 2007 01:11:57 PM
Glad it worked! My daughter is going to be teaching 2nd grade and the school is John S Park (or something like that). LV school district is really recruiting here - we have 200 applicants for every teaching job in MN and new teachers rarely get them.
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myfavorites4u
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posted on July 17, 2007 01:18:06 PM
We are building 200 to 300 new schools every other year. 6000 to 8000 people move here every single month so we are pretty desperate.
There was only 425,000 residents here in 1989 when we moved here. It's crazy the way the city is growing.
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roadsmith
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posted on July 17, 2007 03:41:32 PM
We lived in Vegas for 20 years, 1961-1981, and I know where John S. Park is. Small world, I guess. Our kids all went to Howard Wasden Elementary. I taught at John C. Fremont Jr. High for one year.
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