Printing Scans

[Jerry]

That BootlegZone site has nice scans of CD front and back covers. But the images are just huge, like over 1000 x 1000. Does anybody know the proper image size for CD scans? I mean, the proper size so that when I print them out they'll fit in my CD case.

[Legs]

Don't you have a program to print the cd-covers, I mean it doesn't mean how large the scans are on bootleg zone, you still can print them out as large as a cd booklet.

[Legs]

Anyhow I learned from Yoko that you should scan the covers wiht 300 dpi, as jpeg,
or something.

[ Oct 23, 2003, 11:19 AM: Message Edited By: Legs ]

[Edmund]

Originally Posted By Jerry:
That BootlegZone site has nice scans of CD front and back covers. But the images are just huge, like over 1000 x 1000. Does anybody know the proper image size for CD scans? I mean, the proper size so that when I print them out they'll fit in my CD case.<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">If you print one of these images, they'll print at the correct size for putting in a CD jewel case. They only look huge on your screen because they've been scanned at high res (in the sense of dpi). Your computer screen is very low res, so to display the huge number of dots in the image it has to make the image size very large.

If you wanted to reduce the large image to a real size on the screen, use a graphics editing program to reduce its resolution to that of your screen. You won't be able to print a good cover from that low-res image you'd have then, however.

[Legs]

That's what I was trying to say.

[Jerry]

I did print one, and it was almost big enough to paste over a huge record cover. The 1000 x 1000 is not the dpi, it's the image size.

[Paolo Meccano]

Most PC art programs will let you adjust the size of an image in inches, so if you wanted to print out a CD booklet cover, it'd be just under 5 inches square.

[Edmund]

Originally Posted By Jerry:
I did print one, and it was almost big enough to paste over a huge record cover. The 1000 x 1000 is not the dpi, it's the image size.<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">I'm not sure what you mean, by your second sentence. Anyway ...

Most graphics programs (Mac or PC) will give you info about the image.Then fiddle about. Follow the help that comes with your graphics prog. It won't take you long to pick up on what you need to do if you print in black and white. I went through this a few years ago when I was learning to scan properly. You really do need to print stuff out to see the difference between how an image displays onscreen, and on paper.

Worth it though. There are some nice scans on bootlegzone, aren't there?

[Jerry]

It's not the dpi that I need, but the actual image size. You know, like a standard banner ad is 468 x 60.

[SleepyHead]

Jerry, the scans you mention are 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels - you ain't gettin' those to fit nicely in any jewel case, 'cause someone's "evened" 'em up.

The correct printing size is:
342 pixels by 340 pixels, or
4.75 inches by 4.722 inches, or
12.065 cm by 11.994 cm.

If you've got really good dpi going there, print away. Generally speaking the more dpi (dots per inch), the more details get printed - but only as many dots as were scanned in. I scan in all my stuff for print quality at the highest dpi my scanner can handle, and reprint at the highest dpi my printer will handle (a word of warning: not all scanners/printers handle high dpi images well, and not all will scale them down in an acceptable manner).

Most scans you find on the web are only scanned at 72dpi - that's all a monitor will handle anyway, regardless of what the actual dpi is. Once they've been jpeg'ed, the dpi is also lowered.

[ Oct 24, 2003, 01:21 AM: Message Edited By: SleepyHead ]

[Jerry]

Thanks everybody, I got it to work eventually.

[onosideboards]

Originally Posted By Legs:
Anyhow I learned from Yoko that you should scan the covers wiht 300 dpi, as jpeg,
or something.<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">So now I'm Yoko, huh? images/icons/wink.gif

Jerry, you could have just measured an existing cover and back and changed the size while preserving the aspect ratio of the scan. Or was it that you didn't know how to change it in the program?

Any Windows user should be using UnderCover XP (http://www.soft-ware.net/service/quicksuche.asp?q=1&suche=undercover+xp) for printing artwork. It's awesome because you don't need to worry about changing the size by hand...you just drag the file into the program, select what kind of cover you want it to be, and it resizes for you. This is espcially nice if you need to resize a back cover for a CD folder thingy or for the slimline cases.

[Legs]

Originally Posted By onosideboards:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Originally Posted By Legs:
Anyhow I learned from Yoko that you should scan the covers wiht 300 dpi, as jpeg,
or something.<font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">So now I'm Yoko, huh? images/icons/wink.gif

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif">Sorry Ono images/icons/smile.gif