Digital BW, The Print

On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 11:34  PM, kentho1937 wrote:

> When I scan 35mm colour slides on my LS 2000 they come in Photoshop
> at 300dpi as the image size.
>  When I scan my B&W negatives, with help
> from you, they come out in Photoshop as Image size 1350 dpi.
> Is this good or bad?

I don't know who you are referring to, so forgive me if I'm jumping in 
unwanted... but...

Why are you not scanning at your scanners highest resolution, of 2700 
spi?  This will bring your scan into PS at 2700 dpi, at the actual size 
of the slide or neg. You then change the print size, without using 
resampling... this changes the dpi accordingly. All you are changing is 
your print size, the file size remains constant if you don't resample, 
same number of pixels.

> Should I do something about it?

set the res at 2700, the input/output at 100%.

> Why is there this difference?

I don't know what you were doing, haven't followed these threads.. but 
sounds like you are fiddling with the image size in the scanner 
software rather than adjusting the res at 100% size of file.

> Is it related to Digital ICE now being switched off?

Not at all.


Carolyn