Photos, Graphics & Artwork Document Scanning
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Here are some scanning tips and to explain the basics for photos and documents. It is about the digital images, the basics to help you get the most from your scanner.
When folks get started they often want to scan a photo at the greatest possible resolution. We’ll explain why that’s the wrong answer, with tips about how to choose a more appropriate answer. That and many other scanning basics are covered here, and it’s intended to be a fast jump start to aid newcomers to graphics and scanning. Scanners are easy and fun and very useful, and there’s lots of artistic creativity possible too. There will be a little scanning technique to learn, but when you’ve seen it once, then it’s rather simple.
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Image File Formats – JPG, TIF, PNG, GIF
Which to use?
The most common image file formats, the most important for cameras, printing, scanning, and internet use, are JPG, TIF, PNG, and GIF.
Digital cameras and web pages normally use JPG files – because JPG heroically compresses the data to be very much smaller in the file. However JPG uses lossy compression to accomplish this, which is a downside. A smaller file, yes, there is nothing like JPG for small, but this is at the cost of image quality. This degree is selectable, to be lower quality smaller files, or to be higher quality larger files. JPG is rather unique in this regard, using lossy compression allowing very small files of lower quality, whereas almost any other file type is lossless (and larger). WeScanFiles.com uses JPG when small file size is more important than maximum image quality. But JPG is good enough in many cases, if we don’t overdo the compression. Perhaps good enough for some uses. If maximum quality for archiving your important images is your goal, then you do need to consider a couple things:
- JPG should always choose higher Quality and a larger file, and
- Continue editing and saving your JPG images repeatedly causes quality lost every time you save it as JPG
We offer comprehensive and reliable services of document scanning in Fort Worth, Texas at a reasonable cost. Call (214) 519-9637 for question about WeScanFiles.com scanning services
