scanning ticket stubs

[Sossity Corby]

I have a bunch of concert ticket stubs I would like to scan & archive, (using an Epson perfection 4490 photo flat bed scanner)  to print off an inkjet or laser printer & view on a computer & TV screen. What resolution dpi  do you recommend for my purposes? Format? TIFF or JPG?

in the scan preview screen, there is a dotted boundry box that one pulls around with the mouse, should I scan just the area of the ticket stub, or scan with stub to the size of an 8 & 1/2" letter paper size?

before I scan there is the file save settings box, where one names the scan: file name (Prefix + 3-digit number)  & start number 001, etc. What should I use for the (Prefix + 3-digit number) name? What compression level should I use for: TIFFS & or JPGS? & what type of encoding?

I also noticed in the Epson scan & in photo editors that one of the options when I save an image as a TIFF;  it gives me the choice of Mac or PC byte order, which of these should I choose & will it be compatible with the other I don't choose? in the past I saved one in each, but this gets a little tedious when I have a alot of images.

[ScottBuckel]

I have a large collections of various ticket stubs.  Many of them have been used as art in scrap books which have been shared with friends.  I scann all of these at 600 dpi.  More recently I have scanned them at lower resolution since I have now gone electronic and do not print those are scanned at 72. 

If you are going to scan a large number of tickets.  Put a large number of them on the flatbed scanner and scan.  Photoshop has an automation of crop and strightn that will crop the images and create separate files.  Works great. I then save them with names that make sense to me and save them in folders with other images from the same event.

I save all thing like this as jpegs as they are the easiest to work with in programs like word, powerpoint and slideshows.

Peter asks people to sign their names with their posts and I think it is a nice thing to do.

Scott

[Sossity Corby]

I have photoshop elements 2.0 that came with my scanner, could you describe how I would scan multiple stubs & use photoshop to crop them? I have never tried that. Thank you for any help

Sossity Corby

[ScottBuckel]

I have Photoshop CS3 and I have not looked at Elements in a while.  In PSCS2 and CS3 you find the function by File-->Automate-->crop and rotate.  I am not sure if it is in Elements 2.0 (Elements is currently 5.0).  I have a couple of friends that have Elements and I will check with them.

Scott

[rod barbee]

I don't think Elements 2.0 has that crop function. Instead, what you'd have to do is to open the image and crop out one of the tickets. Then do a SAVE AS and give it a meaningful name. Now go to your History Pallete and step back to before you cropped. This will bring back the original scan of all the tickets. Now crop another, do a SAVE AS, and so on.

rod

[Sossity Corby]

Thank for the tip, I noticed when I scan into photoshop elements ( my epson scans into it through import) & save my files, & then look them up in windows fax & picture viewer, for color space, it reads; uncalibrated color, does this matter if the scans are uncalibrated color? how do I get a color space & which one should I use? sRGB or Adobe RGB?

Sossity

[rod barbee]

you'll need to refer to the documentation that came with your scanner regarding which color spaces your scanner uses. Adobe RGB has a wider color gamut than sRGB. sRBG is more universal. For ticket stubs, I don't see that it really matters.
I would suggest that you get a book on color management and color spaces. That would go a long way toward answering many of the questions you have. Look for books by Dan Margulis, Tim Grey, Martin Evening and others.
Also, I don't know if Windows fax & picture viewer is the best app. to look at file data (like EXIF data or IPTC). Doesn't Elements have the File Info box (File>File Info)?

rod

[Sossity Corby]

I have tried adjusting color spaces with my scanner, & when I added Adobe RGB space in windows & configured it in the epson configuration, it only kept the space for one scan, I would go back & try to change it to sRGB for something else, & the options box would be greyed out, so I could not choose a color space again. I am on a computer with multiple screen names, had done this on my screen name. went to another creen name & the same thing happened. I tried e-mailing epson support about this & in the end they could not help me. I am running windows XP home edition, service pack 2 with 3 screen names/user accounts. I have tried downloading newest drivers & updates from epson to no avail.

Sossity