On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:39:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:28:58AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > > But I do need to create an online album of some sort. My question is, > > which > > are the best settings for me to upload my images in? Like what size should > > they be, at what dpi and depth, etc ? ( I just need to scan in a lot of > > normal pictures you'd get from a "advantix" camera) > > Most recent monitor are 0.25mm pitch = 100 dpi these days. So it can be > 100 dpi if it should apear in same size as originals. Traditionally, > screens are 72 dpi, so I tends to scan at 72 dpi for web. > > Make sure to convert them into jpeg files to make image files small. > 50KB means 10 second modem download. jpeg compression is lossy > complession and can reduce file size drastically when larger loss are > allowed. GIMP gives easy GUI manupuration of images. imagemagik is CLI > image manupilator. > > Good luck ;-) > > PS: Just do not scan at 300dpi ! >
For the web, 72-100 dpi is perfect. For printing, 300+ dpi is better. Mike
