Re: photograph

At 07:56 AM 8/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I need some advice please. I want to put a photograph on the cover of a
>brochure we're doing for our convention in October. The cover size is 17 x
>11 - how should I go about scanning the photo to make sure the resolution is
>good enough for a cover that size? The program itself will be done using
>Quark. I have Photoshop6, Illustrator9, CorelDraw8.

Hi Susan

I am not an expert on print graphics, but I have done some in that area.

What I remember is that you need to know what the lines per inch (lpi) 
printing that a Printers service does for your cover art, and scan based on 
that by some simple math equation (Photoshop Bible covered it, but my copy 
is at home). I think it was 1.5x to 2x the lpi for scanning at dpi, but I 
am not positive. So if your lpi is 80, than you scan at around double it in 
pixels, like 160dpi.]

This will make for some large scans at 11x17. 1760x2720. For such a large 
image (presuming it covers the whole size), you might want to drum scan it 
(a bit more expensive). Or maybe not use the whole size with the photo. 
Depends on many factors I would say.

I found some interesting comments on this page doing a google check.
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0008FW

hth


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