JL, I agree with the most you wrote but have to disagree about sizes.
As far as I remember the inches belong to the very old antquiate imperial (British) system of measurment ;-). 3 feet = one yard. But looking at my feet I get less than one yard ;-). No hard feelings. Just a joke. Bernhard -----Original Message----- From: JLB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pictures, dpi, etc., need your suggestions. This may not be what you're asking. There's too many questions in your question. What size image to put into Legacy, I have no clue. It re-sizes things doesn't it to fit the page? And wouldn't it depend which report? Some are using small portrait photos. There are scrapbook pages with larger photos. Here's my general scanning advice: What I would suggest is that you don't decide your scanning parameters backwards, i.e. based on how you might use Legacy. Better to leave your options open. Which means go large and you can go smaller later for whatever purposes. Going from small to larger really doesn't work. Scan at 300 dpi, save as TIFF. Save that original and work from copies. That's very basic. AND too general. It depends on the size of what you're scanning. If the photo is 1" square and you scan it at original size you're still going to get a photo that's 1" square unless you lower the dpi in order to increase size. Something like that I would scan at 2400 dpi. I tend to look at it from the point of overall size in MB and that just comes from experience and getting a feel for it. I have photos I may want to print VERY large someday and others I know I will never want to print so I make decisions on an individual basis. First you have to understand there's a difference between screen-size and print-size. What looks HUGE on your screen might print a 4x6. Or maybe not even that. Experiment with this before you decide. You don't have to actually print pictures, but open a scan into a program that will print, try setting that up and see what it tells you. Adobe Elements goes into more detail than some about what dpi will print at what size. Find something (not necessarily THAT) that will tell you so you can understand the difference. Yes, some printers can only print at 200 dpi but I would ignore that point right now. It's not something to base your scanning parameters on. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/18/2012 8:23 AM, Shack wrote: > I have read the manual and everything on line but still cannot decide > on the most efficient and useful dpi to scan pictures in and what size > image to put the file into Legacy as. Probably 90% of us print on 8.5 > X > 11 inch paper, most printers can print any DPI up to a limit, but > those of you that are adding pictures may be able to give me suggestions. > Basing it on a 4" X 5" print, how many DPI would be optimum for reports? > If I scan at 200 dpi would they print at that resolution or the > resolution that I set in Options when making a report? I assume if I > did both of the last two things the picture would be downsized to the max. > width set in the reports setup. > I will appreciate any info about this that you more experienced users > may have. 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