Tom Duffy
Member
My daughter has an Epson 2450 flat bed scanner that she uses to scan her drawings (I say this to establish my bona fides as an analogue photographer
). I tried it with some 5x7 contact prints, thinking to make some contributions to the APUG gallery.
I tried an actual size scan 5x7 at 90 dpi, having read that this is sufficient for web use. I even auto sharpened using the silverfast software that came with the scanner. results were pretty mushy. I kept increasing the dpi setting on the scan, producing only slightly better results. the results at 1200 dpi, were ok, but, by then I was producing a 42 meg file. I'm sure Sean would not want to be on the receiving end of one of those!
Anyone able to help? What am I doing wrong?

I tried an actual size scan 5x7 at 90 dpi, having read that this is sufficient for web use. I even auto sharpened using the silverfast software that came with the scanner. results were pretty mushy. I kept increasing the dpi setting on the scan, producing only slightly better results. the results at 1200 dpi, were ok, but, by then I was producing a 42 meg file. I'm sure Sean would not want to be on the receiving end of one of those!
Anyone able to help? What am I doing wrong?