Digital BW, The Print

>To this I would add that you should probalby scan at 300dpi if
>you intend only to reprint the pictures without doing a lot of
>editing/repair. Scan at a higher resolution (say, 600dpi) if
>you want to make more extensive adjustments to the images or
>to print them larger than the original size.

What I want to do I find hard to tell ahead of time. Plus I sometimes 
change my mind. Or get awkwardly late a request at odds with my own 
intuition about what's best. So I scan at my flatbed's optical 
resolution, which is 800 samples per inch. And nevertheless often 
have to print, after cropping, at less than 360 scanned samples in 
each printed (at 1440 dpi) inch. Many of these prints are old family 
photos with some documentation added in a caption below them. And 
with text I like to have more scanner samples per inch (spi), 
preferably 480.


>Also, a useful, free program for working on old photos is the
>Polaroid Dust and Scratch remover tool, free from the Polaroid
>site.
>
>http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html
>
>It allows you to quite quickly remove black, white, or both specs
>and scratches from scanned images without affecting the sharpness
>of the image, an it has a fairly short learning curve.

Polaroid seems not to have a Mac version of this software. Does 
anyone know whether there is one in the works?

Sam

Sam McCandless              samcc@...