Scan Slides

[saevander]

I always save my most important pictures/scanned slides in the .tiff
format. Opening a .jpg file, saving it, closing and opening again, etc
is analogous to making a xerox copy and then a copy of the copy and
then a copy of the copy of the copy...the quality greatly deteriorates
with each save. This does not happen with the .tiff format. To save
time, I often scan in .jpg format, edit in digital image photo
software and save the edited .jpg file in the .tiff format to retain
the highest quality possible. If the picture is especially precious to
me, I scan in .tiff preferring to sacrifice hard drive space for
quality.

Here's a link to the Proshow Gold slideshow software I use. It's much
more sophisticated and professional than the slideshow programs that
come as part of photo editing software and you can do really arty and
creative things with it. Once you get used to the scanner, you might
want to consider downloading the program for a trial period. It's
reasonably priced, too.

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold

 

[tomm42]

I always save my most important pictures/scanned slides in the .tiff
format. Opening a .jpg file, saving it, closing and opening again, etc
is analogous to making a xerox copy and then a copy of the copy and
then a copy of the copy of the copy...the quality greatly deteriorates
with each save. This does not happen with the .tiff format. To save
time, I often scan in .jpg format, edit in digital image photo
software and save the edited .jpg file in the .tiff format to retain
the highest quality possible. If the picture is especially precious to
me, I scan in .tiff preferring to sacrifice hard drive space for
quality.

Here's a link to the Proshow Gold slideshow software I use. It's much
more sophisticated and professional than the slideshow programs that
come as part of photo editing software and you can do really arty and
creative things with it. Once you get used to the scanner, you might
want to consider downloading the program for a trial period. It's
reasonably priced, too.

http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold

Saving files in Tiff format is good advice for master files. Jpeg is
useful too as long as the file is not going to be resaved. Opening and
closing jpegs is fine, it is opening, editing and saving is where
jpegs start to fall apart. I use jpegs going out to presentations,
because I often don't know the quality of the computer I'm going to
have to use. Jpeg have a place where space saving is needed. Where
mastering is needed Tif is definitly the prefered format.

Tom