WeScanFiles.com serves our Clients in Photo Negative Scanning, Photo Slide Scanning, Wide Format Scanning, and Super High Resolution scanning for large reprints.
Drum Corps International and WeScanFiles.com are currently working together to scan and catalog some 50 years and 750,000 plus images. These images come from a variety of sources. From black and white photos to large format photo negatives. WeScanFiles.com can scan it all. Our new scanning techniques coupled with years of experience have yielded a New Super High-Resolution image that allows the end-user to reprint in very large formats.
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, it’s rather simple.
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 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 compression allowing very small files of lower quality, whereas almost any other file type is lossless (and larger). WeScanFiles.com uses JPG when a 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. If maximum quality for archiving your important images is your goal, then you do need to consider a couple of things:
- JPG should always choose higher quality and a larger file, and
- Continue editing and saving your JPG images repeatedly causes quality loss every time you save it as JPG
We Also Work With The Engineering Department at The City of Burleson. Digitizing over 15,000 42″ and 48″ wide format plans. This scanning project has freed up over two thousand square feet of facility space for the Department to repurpose for staffing.
