F
Freep
Hi
I am new to scanning and would like advice about how to minimize
file size while trying to presere image quality. I have some
genealogy documents that I would like to share with distant cousins
that I have met online and would like to minimize the file size so
that that can more easily share and store the documents; yet image
quality is most important.
My current routine is to scan the documents at maximum resolution and
color which creates a bitmap which is about 98,000k
I then use Irfanview to reduce the resolution so that the smaller
dimision (usually width) is between 500 and 1000 pixels. I do this
by reducing the giant bitmaps's and higth and width by some factor of
2. Finally I save the image as a jpg and set preserve image quality
at 50%
The resulting jpgs are usually between 100k and 300k
Anyone know of a better method to keep file sizes relatively small
while preserving document qualitiy??
Thanks In Advance!
Fearless Freep
I am new to scanning and would like advice about how to minimize
file size while trying to presere image quality. I have some
genealogy documents that I would like to share with distant cousins
that I have met online and would like to minimize the file size so
that that can more easily share and store the documents; yet image
quality is most important.
My current routine is to scan the documents at maximum resolution and
color which creates a bitmap which is about 98,000k
I then use Irfanview to reduce the resolution so that the smaller
dimision (usually width) is between 500 and 1000 pixels. I do this
by reducing the giant bitmaps's and higth and width by some factor of
2. Finally I save the image as a jpg and set preserve image quality
at 50%
The resulting jpgs are usually between 100k and 300k
Anyone know of a better method to keep file sizes relatively small
while preserving document qualitiy??
Thanks In Advance!
Fearless Freep