[photoshop-beginners] Re: Scanning pictures into Photoshop

If you made the photo prints yourself, or
if the photo prints were made before the mid 1990's, scan them at the highest dpi setting that gives you files of manageable size in megabytes.
If they were printed by a service after the mid 1990's, they were printed at 150 dpi. Scanning at a higher dpi will not give better resolution.
As Keith advised, save your scans as tiff files. When you work on them in PS, do the work on a copy of the tiff, and don't overwrite it.
God bless you always, all ways,
Paul

--- In photoshop-beginners@yahoogroups.com, "iceman" <tomwilliams54@...> wrote:
>
> Hello group,
> I 'm still learning Photoshop and want to send some things to the groups
> on of these first days. I don't want to be kicked out of this group.
> I'm learning a lot from questions and tutorials in the e-mails I read.
> I have lots of photos taken with cameras that I want to scan into
> Photshop. So that I can edit them and convert them to digital photos.
> Most are 4"x6" photos from vacations that I want to start with.
> My question is what should I scan these photos at for the best outcome.
> I'm using a Canon mp 970 all in on photo printer. Should I set it to the
> highest level on my printer. I know the higher the dpi the longer it
> takes. But the better results. Any ideas.
> Thank you for all of your help.
> Tom WilliamsPA
> Thanks you for your help.
>

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