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Old 01-11-2010, 04:42 PM   #78
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Re: GTR Articles Thread

The first image is what I call 'over-scanned' and will not be workable. You're actually seeing the pixelation from the magazine's printer. I think most magazines are printed at under 150dpi, so if you scan it any higher than that those will be your results.

You'd actually get a better source scanning it at a lower resolution, and then trying to blow it up and do some sharpening of that image if you want a larger size.

Another thing I've done with decent results in the past is photograph the image on the page with a digital camera in macro mode. Depending on the resolution your camera shoots at, you can still end up getting the printer pixelation as a result though.

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