What is the best scanning resolution for computer display?This is a hard question to answer because it depends on how your computer is set up and the size of your screen. You first of all need to take a look at your screen resolution - you may be able to find this out from your monitor guide book or your display card guide book. Alternatively you can get your computer to tell you. For a P.C. this generally means right clicking on the Desktop and then selecting Properites and Settings. Once you have that information you can look at how big you need your scan to be. Most screen (save the biggest ones) have a resolution under 1280 x 1024 A scan of a standard sized print (6x4) at 300dpi comes out at 1800 x 1200 approx and at 600dpi it will be 3600 x 2400. A scan of a 35mm slide at only 2000dpi would give a result that is 2700x1800 which is more than adequate for even most big monitors (we scan at 2400dpi at least - unless by special request). Your computer would resize the image to fit the screen. It is possible to get a scan at exactly the right dimensions but often it is better to get a scan that is bigger in case you get a bigger monitor in the future. If you have a widescreen monitor then you need to look at the depth figure first because the vast majority of photos are not taken widescrren so the picture will not fill the full width of the monitor. Now if you wanted your photos to fit the full width you would need to scan at a resolution that would give you a wide enough picture (300dpi would do most but not the biggest) and then crop the image to suit. I hope this all makes sense. The answer in 99% of the cases is scan at 300dpi for prints or 2400dpi for slides. |
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