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What is the best way to scan in pictures of your cards?

chrisrenaudchrisrenaud Posts: 176
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Before asking one of the IT people at my company, I wanted to ask people the process by which they scan in pictures of their cards because I have been trying and it seems that although I can get the pictures uploaded they turn out to be giant when clicked on (try looking in my 70 or 71 set for an example) rather than the more user friendly and better looking scans that others are putting up.

Thanks for the help in advance

Chris
Collector of baseball PSA sets from the 1970's & hockey rookie cards; big New York Rangers fan (particularly now that they are sleeping with the enemy with Holik and Kaspiritus). Also starting to collect 53 Bowman Color as I think they are the most beautiful cards I have seen.

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  • SAHDofTwinsSAHDofTwins Posts: 100
  • SAHDofTwinsSAHDofTwins Posts: 100
    I have to use a photo editing program and reduce the size of the image by one half.
  • LloydsBaseballCardsLloydsBaseballCards Posts: 254
    I scan at 200 dpi @ 50%, this gives a nice clear, sharp scan and looks normal size.
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  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    A computer monitor displays 72 dpi. Your scanner probably defaults to scanning at 150 or 300 dpi. When you display @ 300 dpi, it takes a little more than 4x the area. Scanning them in at that resolution is fine, but you should reduce them to 72 dpi in whatever program you use. That will display them at true size.
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  • brucemobrucemo Posts: 358 ✭
    Different screen resolutions display them differently. I do my scans at 100 dpi, and they show up smaller on my monitor than they do in real life. On other people's monitors, I assume they are a lot bigger.

    I think the best size for scans on eBay is about 100 dpi, because you can see the card pretty clearly and it doesn't take forever to download. I think smaller would be bad, but a little bigger might be good. 200 dpi is too much I think.

    I would not use a photo program to reduce the size, because that seems to make the image blurrier than just re-scanning with fewer dpi, and it's an extra step that's painful to have to do. If you are doing one scan, maybe it's not that big a deal, but if you have to do a whole bunch, it will take a long time.

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  • gemintgemint Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I scan on 300 DPI at 50% size. I have to crop the scans close to the card/label since they usually come out around 110 kB which exceeds the maximum allowable file size. I've tried scanning at lower resolutions, but the photos come out fuzzy. I just started uploading some scans from my '69 set. Check a few out and let me know if they load too slowly or if I should further reduce the size.

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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    Wonderful comparison, BruceMo. Thanks!
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  • rw2winrw2win Posts: 557 ✭
    gemint - On my screen the card is so big that only half of it is showing. It could also be my monitors settings???
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