Scanning Poster

[Alain's Studio]

I need help understand how can I scan poster and use Photoshop to glue it
all up - any suggestion?

Alain

 

[CSM1]

I need help understand how can I scan poster and use Photoshop to glue it
all up - any suggestion?

Alain

You need to give a lot more details.

What is the size of the poster?
Is the poster in color or black and white?

 

[Alain's Studio]

Well -I have various size of poster from 24" / 18" to 36" / 48" these are
poster I take from venue and have the artist sign, I just would like to
archive them on Jpg and most of them are color but some are black & white.

Alain

 

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

Well -I have various size of poster from 24" / 18" to 36" / 48" these are
poster I take from venue and have the artist sign, I just would like to
archive them on Jpg and most of them are color but some are black & white.

Alain

I'd suggest using one of the "auto-stitch" programs available. The one
that comes free with any Canon digital camera works pretty well, but
I'm sure there are better ones. Then clean up the image in Photoshop.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

 

[CSM1]

For archive purposes, you should use TIFF, as Jpeg is a lossy format.

With those sizes of posters, you would be better off, photographing them
with a digital camera. For the printing up to 8x10 images, you should have a
digital camera of at least 7.2 Megapixels.

You would need to setup a copying studio with an easel (or a wall), camera
and two lights.

This is the lighting setup.
http://www.carlmcmillan.com/lightingforcopying.htm

There is not any scanner of that size that is practical for an individual to
own.
There are art copy companies that can create digital files of art that size.

Here is one. They can do up to 36" X 72".
http://www.paradigmimaging.com/services/fine_art_scanning.htm

This company has Large format scanners, if you must scan that size yourself.
http://www.contex.com/applicationar...apscanners/largeformatscannersmapscanners.htm

 

[Rob]

Well -I have various size of poster from 24" / 18" to 36" / 48" these are
poster I take from venue and have the artist sign, I just would like to
archive them on Jpg and most of them are color but some are black & white.

Alain

Photograph them full size with a decent digital camera.

The size, if you want to scan them do them in sections, then join with a
stitching program like Autopano Pro, http://www.autopano.net, this
should recompose them and match the colour. (this does not have to be in
a pan format, it will join a matrix - horizontal and vertical in on go)

 

[Alain's Studio]

Thanks to all but the funny thing is that I never taught of actually taking
a picture of them instead of trying to scan them, and after use the
perspective crop tolls in Photoshop CS2.

Again Thanks All

Alain

 

[tomm42]

Thanks to all but the funny thing is that I never taught of actually taking
a picture of them instead of trying to scan them, and after use the
perspective crop tolls in Photoshop CS2.

Again Thanks All

Alain

"Alain's Studio" <[email protected]> wrote in message

Do the photography right and you won't have the use and fixit tools in
Photoshop, just make sure the poster and camera are aligned. The other
way to look at this is to find a wide format scanning service, will
save you alot of time, may cost $30 or $40 though. I would do either
of these before stitching. Also remember perspective tools degrade the
image considerably.

Tom

 

[Alain's Studio]

What do you mean by "perspective tools degrade the image considerably"?

Alain

 

[Guest]

What do you mean by "perspective tools degrade the image considerably"?

Why do you have to ask?

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

Why do you have to ask?

Because it isn't true?

 

[Guest]

Why do you have to ask?

[/QUOTE]

Because it isn't true?

If you think that, I've got a bridge you might want to buy. Sheesh.

 

[Bart van der Wolf]

Because it isn't true?

If you think that, I've got a bridge you might want to buy. Sheesh.[/QUOTE]

Bridges have little to do with *quality* perspective correction tools,
so I'll pass on offers for bridges. Is your opinion on "considerably"
degraded images (whatever that means) based on any evidence I, or the
others in this group, can see? Maybe you used a less appropriate tool
(e.g. Photoshop), or used inappropriate parameters for other tools?