Can anyone recommend a high end scanner? -- for oil paintings
Yuting
Just new to scanners. My they're going down in price.
Anyhow, I'm trying to look for a high end scanner that can scan in oil
paintings, art work done by hand.
The picture scanned in will have to be resized.
Color loss is *BIG* factor.
Since we'll be scanning in oil paintings, the 'oilish textues' and various
contours also need to be taken into account.
Thanks,
Yuting
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At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!'
Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.
Yuting
Thanks for the reply.
> A question that you need to answer here is: How big of a file do you want
of
> your painting? I can assume you don't care about the size if it doesn't
> sacrifice your paintings.
Yes, you are right.
> Do you want the scan exactly as your painting?
Yes.
How are you going to
> transport the scans once you scan them? Email, disk, CD?
CD and email.
Are you going to
> print your images? If you are going to print your images what is the
> resolution capabilites of your printer?
We are looking at having the paintings printed.
But it is not a priority at the moment.
If we need to have the images printed, we can always have a company do it
for us right?
Any idea how much it would cost?
Incidentally, we were looking at scanning in paintings around the sizes of
36" by 36" or
40" by 40"
I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
Thanks,
Yuting
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Aquateks
your painting? I can assume you don't care about the size if it doesn't
$20.00 (bought it at Wal-Mart for $99.00 when they first hit the market)
This scanner will do resoluntions up to 1200 dpi which is a sizeable file
(greater than 3 megabytes). I scan photographs with this and don't see much
quality loss even by going with a lower resolution such as 150 dpi.
Do you want the scan exactly as your painting? How are you going to
transport the scans once you scan them? Email, disk, CD? Are you going to
print your images? If you are going to print your images what is the
resolution capabilites of your printer?
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A good Digital Camera may actually be the way to go here...
Carlo
"Yuting" <photosyn...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:sl04nke...@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi,
>
> Just new to scanners. My they're going down in price.
>
> Anyhow, I'm trying to look for a high end scanner that can scan in
> oil paintings, art work done by hand.
>
> The picture scanned in will have to be resized.
>
> Color loss is *BIG* factor.
>
> Since we'll be scanning in oil paintings, the 'oilish textues' and
> various contours also need to be taken into account.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yuting
>
>
> --
> At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!'
> Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.
>
>
>
>
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Bernie
Robert
Go for the higher bit value. 36 bit color is good.
Get more SGRAM in yor PC.
Hire a photog, use good camera on tripod & best film (not Fuji), photo
the painting in natural sunlight, develop film in good lab, and scan
the picture.
Color prints are expensive. Get a good inkjet printer. The one with 2
ink cartridges that cost so much to replace.
People really like prints I've done using glossy paper.
Here's a sight i did for a friend.
The pictures are JPEGs of the original scans, but still look good.
An 'oil painting gallery':
http://www.geocities.com/lartez.geo/INDEX.HTM
Yuting
I appreciate it.
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At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!'
Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.
"Robert" <itsall@theHeader> wrote in message
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Dennis Calhoun
<photosyn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the reply
>
>I appreciate it.
My ISP has yet to receive the original posting and the reply to which
you refer, so I cannot be certain what the reply recommended, but one
thing that I can offer....
Any and all scanners utilize VERY bright light, which could damage an
oil painting!
>
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>At first there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light!'
>Then there was still nothing. But you could see it.
SO.... WHO was "God"?
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Dennis C.
robert
You're welcome, Yuting.
I've scanned oil paintings directly on the scanner. Seeing each brush
stroke in high resolution is interesting. But when viewing a painting,
you're not inches away from it, so a more realistic image seems to be
a scan of a good photograph of the painting. (I did get right up close
to a Van gogh once; the guard almost shot me:)
I use an Acer 620p. It came with good software.
Fri, 21 Jul, "Yuting":
>Thanks for the reply..