MOTM

I can give you a couple of hints. Scan big, like you have. Then bring the
image into photo editing software (Photoshop is best). Here you can
'de-skew' the image to make it perpendicular to the screen edges. Most
important, play with and raise the contrast. This will eliminate the ghostly
bleed through from the reverse side of the pages, as well as *tremendously*
help your compression ratio. Photoshop's Histogram feature is worth its
weight in gold for this kind of tweaking.

Lastly, never use JPeG compression on anything other than color photographic
images. JPeG is wasted on monochrome photos, and very detrimental to
high-contrast graphic images. For type, schematics, etc., use GIF
compression. Choosy moms always choose GIF.

Even if you want to reduce the image size, do that last. Scan big, fiddle
with contrast, etc., and lastly reduce to final size (hopefully a simple
ratio to the original, such as 1/2, 1/4, etc.

Hope this helps.


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	skinny bastard [mailto:skin_job@...] 
Sent:	Monday, 10 July, 2000 8:37 PM
To:	motm@egroups.com
Subject:	[motm] OT: ribbon controller instructions (was: RE: I pity
you fellow motms)

Sorry about the scans being so big..... trying to get used to using a
scanner.