Size of files ????
My family (me first!!) are starting the job of converting our Dad’s slides (and our own) over to digital. We will probably be buying one of the Nikon Scanners and using it’s software. Further PP will probably be done with PS and add ons like Noise NInja. We want to several books with the digital images.. The problem is the size of the scan..I have been told that they will be (depending on quality) between 30 and 100 MB each.. What is the MB limit of the size of book ???? Thanks, Ian.
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Yes, you want the original scans to be high quality. Like 16 bit tiffs.
But when you save the final copies from Photoshop as jpgs, the file size will be much smaller.
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Tom, Have you had experience in converting slides to digital ? What is the average jpeg size after conversion ? Thanks, Ian.
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Grassy –
There is no maximum size in MB of a Blurb book. That said, 100 mb images have much more data than you need to print at even 13×11 size, will eat up memory, slow down your computer, and take a long time to upload to blurb. A full bleed image in a 13×11 book at 300 dpi runs around 13mb, so that is the maximum size you’d need for BookSmart. This is estimated in photoshop and as Tom mentioned these will be smaller when saved as JPG.
Personally, I think 100 mb scans are way to much, unless you want to make billboards it will just eat up disk space.
Cheers,
Chad, VP Design
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