Schematics Archive (II)

[KA4HJH]

>   Personally I like 2-bit at 300dpi.  Not all stuff looks great in
>1-bit, especially badly written text.  Heck there's scans which I've had
>to leave at 4-bit because of images and what-not.  And not all of us have
>access to 600 dpi printers anyway (go figure).

Sometimes you need some gray for line art, even at 300.

>   Funny you should mention the dreaded 72 dpi... it seems like I should
>corner Adobe products for this one, but it seems like ANY image you open
>in Photoshop it defaults to 72 dpi, no matter how big your image is.
>Maybe it is some odd Windows thing, I don't know, but it sure is a drag
>to have to manually set it to 300 dpi.  :/

Changes the image resolution to 72??? Wait, I get it. That's stupid. Never
seen that happen in ver 3 or 4 on a Mac.

>   Obviously anyone who diliberately _scans_ in 72 dpi is just plain
>wonkers.  ;)

Unless you're planning on using the mosaic filter later. 8-)
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"