Alright, my girl lent me her scanner a while back and I need help. Yes, I know how to scan. I'm not that dumb, I think. I'm scanning on Windows 98, and using the microsoft photo editor afterwards to do any sizing, etc etc.
Here are some initial questions:
1. What's a good size to resize the pictures to for viewing in a forum?
- I was scanning them and reducing them to 3 inches wide by whatever height, but isn't that too small for art?
2. How can I keep the picture at a decent size while maintaining quality but still lower the size of the file?
- Whenver I scan, and keep it at 3 inches wide, the pictures are like 400k. I dont know what Windows XP has, but if I use whatever editor XP has and reduce the picture by 10%, the file size suddenly goes down to like 47k. Does windows 98 have anything like that?
Ok, just so u know, I wanted to scan some old drawings I had from when I used to draw. They're in my sketch book and want them to be a small file size so people can view them comfortably, but don't want them too be too small or too too little resolution that you can't see the detail (although there isn't much, lol). I was scanning the drawings at 300 resolution.
