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How to make printables?
I want to learn how to make printable projects. I have a scanner, a
digital camera, & Paint Shop Pro. I have no clue how to shrink images down without losing detail, tried, with miserable results. I just want to make things to play with myself, & share for free. I don't need to make commercial quality stuff, altho that would be nice. Is there a group I can join or tutorials somewhere? |
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Kathy wrote:
I want to learn how to make printable projects. I have a scanner, a digital camera, & Paint Shop Pro. I have no clue how to shrink images down without losing detail, tried, with miserable results. I just want to make things to play with myself, & share for free. I don't need to make commercial quality stuff, altho that would be nice. Is there a group I can join or tutorials somewhere? You need to start with very high resolution pictures or scans. Set your camera and scanner to their best possible output. You will still see a substantial degradation in quality if you resize any raster image. Here's why: Assume that each of the following characters is a pixel in your original image, part of a sequential block. a b c d e f g h i j k l x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 When you reduce that string of pixels by 1/12 (as you'd do with a scanned image), which TWO pixels do you want to retain? The rest of the detail will be lost. In a less busy image, say one that looks like this: a a a a a a a a a a a a a b b b b b b b b b b b b you lose a lot less if you convert that to simply a b The techniques will vary widely depending on what you're working with - Text, Backgrounds, Photographs of people, Diagrams, all require somewhat different handling. Drawings are best done (or converted to) vectors such as in Corel Draw, Autocad, Adobe Illustrator, Draw Plus, etc. When taking a photo, try to take the photo so that the actual size will be as close as possible to your end product and require minimal re-sizing. Google for things like Photoshop tutorials (PSP uses all the same techniques) You can also try adding a keyword like Photoshop Tutorial Resizing (I just did and got tons of hits - quality undetermined) - Herb |
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"Kathy" wrote in message om... I want to learn how to make printable projects. I have a scanner, a digital camera, & Paint Shop Pro. I have no clue how to shrink images down without losing detail, tried, with miserable results. I just want to make things to play with myself, & share for free. I don't need to make commercial quality stuff, altho that would be nice. Is there a group I can join or tutorials somewhere? There are some printable sites. The best known of them is Jim's http://www.printmini.com/printables/ Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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