Brian, You don't state what "large" means, what size is a typical 8.5" x 11" document? I personally use 300 dpi (dots per inch) for documents and color photos and 600 dpi for black and white photos. BW photos really have a lot of resolution and can be scanned even higher with some additional benefit.
I have a clean copy of a 8.5x11 death certificate scanned at 300 dpi. The file size will depend on the complexity of the image, but the following will show the relative sizes of 3 different formats. gray scale image: BMP size = 8,774KB GIF size = 2,273KB JPG medium quality, size = 793KB Bitmap image BMP size = 1,097KB GIF size = 240KB JPG doesn't support bitmap images You can get a portable 500GB USB external drive for about $60 ordered online to store your scanned images. Laid ========= On 12/6/2010 3:59 PM, William Boswell wrote: > That's what I've been doing. All original scans, which are very large, are > placed on an external drive while all scans for Legacy are resized to a lower > size and stored in folders on the same drive with my Legacy data. Both are > backed up frequently when something new is added. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Does Legacy care if I resize my scans? > > On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:44:16 -0500, Brian Lehman<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Does anybody think there might be a problem if I resize everything or >> would it be better to leave them large. > > External hard drives are cheap. Buy one and copy the original (large) > images there as an archive. Then feel free to resize the images in the > Legacy folder. > > Resizing will affect quality, so keeping a copy of the original on an > external HD will protect you if it turns out that resizing creates a > problem for a particular image. > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
