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I'm having troubles emailing images to a client to view. I'm scanning slides with an Epson 1640 but the images are to small. If I scale up the file size gets to big to download for client. I am using 72 res. I'm getting file sizes at 300-400kb's. What am I doing wrong? Suggestions?
Tom Coles
PS Ron, I purchased Adobe's Page Mill to create the web site.
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Tom 72 dpi is good for viewing on the monitor (so you have that right). The problem is you're scanning a "small original" so 72 will make a really small scan. To enlarge the scan - do them at 150 or 300. This will make them bigger. If you're scanning a slide at 72 and it's still coming out at 400kb - then you're probably saving it in tif or bmp format? Save the file in .jpeg format. If using a capible scanning program (or photoshops aquire) you can adjust the jpeg level for fine tuning image quality with file size. You should be able to get a 300x400 pixel image (decent size for emailing) down to about 50k with very good quality.
Raise the dpi on your scans until you get the image viewing size you want. (when you scan at 300 dpi for viewing on a monitor they will still view at 72dpi (monitor res) so raising the dpi really doesn't in this case, it just increases the viewable image size. (the file is 300 dpi, but the monitor can only display 72 - so it spreads out the file making it visually larger).
When you get it the viewable size you like, save it as a .jpeg file - and adjust the quality/compression adjustment to "medium" or "high" for good quality images with decent compression.
I'm unfamiliar with Page mill other than hearing the name before, If spending the money, I would have recommended Macromedia's dream weaver. They do better software for a price that is more fair. Adobe tends to over price and under feature their software products. My latest page...
http://www.houseofphotography.com/senior-main.htm
Was done in Macromedia fireworks, then exported to a directory, then imported into MS frontpage 2000 and published to my site with that.
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