On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:34:55 +0100, Dev Null wrote:

Remember that you may not need a camera if you have a scanner - for
articles that are essentially a relief moulding or have a plane
surface you can get rather good results by placing the article
directly on the scanner bed ...

Must try this with SWMBO'd eBay items which are flat, no space to
permenantly install the scanner though and I bet doze will get "upset"
if it constantly is (or isn't) "found".

... and covering with a black matte fabric rather than trying to
close the lid.

Is that more to get a dark background than to blot out what the
scanner can see? What depth of field does a scanner have, if it's only
an inch or so above the bed and the ceiling is the right colour do you
need to cover the item?

In most cases that's quite true - however if you've a picture/image
that has large blocks of similar colour (eg black/white or charts
for eg. ) you may well find that .gif provides a lower file size for
the same visual quality.

Bearing in mind the 256 colour limit of gif. Photographs generally
don't convert down to 256 colours very well any subtle shading ends up
as colour bands, can look very pretty.

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Cheers
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