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massahwahl

massahwahl

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I am currently working on a huge project for my family to archive my grandmas enormous photo collection as a gift to them for Easter hopefully. So far, im the second evening of scanning and already I have about 60 photos pushing 1 gig in size. I am using the Epson V500 photo scanner set on 1200 Resolution (overkill?) and the scans look fantastic, but what I am curious about is when I go to burn all of these to DVDs for everyone, could I use winzip or windows to compress them into a zip file to save some storage space? Will it hurt the quality of the photos? Any other thoughts on this or suggestions before I get to much further in?
 
If your'e not going to increase the size of your originals (ie blow them up) then the eye cannot tell the difference between the standard scan at 300 and higher. So 300 is the recommended for good quality the same size as the original.
If they are JPEG's then they have already been compressed so no other way of saving will give you much of a reduced file.
 
I personally am not going to blow them up but i dont know what everyone else will want to do with them. Im scanning them at 1200 and saving in medium compression in PS2 and that cut the file size down dramatically.
 
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