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Topic: A3 scanner.

14th Jan 2014, 10:18 PM
	Brisbane 1960s archivists Member since Oct 2011 82 Points	Hi all, I am a member of Midoztouch, now I'm not talking about mps, WAV or FLAC files, but the guidelines in doing album covers, here is there guidelines; 'First please note I did not do this myself, I found this somewhere out on the great big world wide web To complaint here either, just a tip (if you own an A4 scanner): I've recently found out it's really easy to use a program like Autopano Giga 2 for seamlessly merging scans into one "big" scan. So for example if I want to scan in an LP cover, I make 4 scans of it, each from a different corner so that all scans have overlapping areas. Then I load those scans into Autopano, and after a few clicks here and there (the program is self-explanatory) I get a merged scan. That scan I load into Paint Shop Pro for (sometimes) pincushion distortion correction and a bit of picture cropping, and the result looks just like an A3 scan. Hope it is of use to someone Enjoy Yours valanion' and 'If you have Photoshop it has has a great stitching feature for album scans. (File/Automate/Photomerge then select Reposition Only and upload your images and click ok). Voila. What i want to know is, what's the recommended size for artwork to be uploaded? What is the correct size in inches (or whatever) and the best resolution etc.. Ive got some albums i can upload but need some advice about this. Thanks in advance.'