[Dixielandjazz] Scanning record jackets [was Alan Frederickson"Here 'Tis" LP]

[Scott Anthony]

The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation bought a large-format scanner 
for scanning Turk's manuscripts for about $360. I think it will do 11" x 
17". That's almost as big as an LP cover, but a cheap, high resolution 
digital camera would be almost as good and would surely be more useful for 
other things as well.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Baker" <djml at dickbaker.org>
To: <santh at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:21 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Scanning record jackets [was Alan Frederickson"Here 
'Tis" LP]


> In response to the Queen City JB files I posted for download, Jerry Gordon 
> asked,
>
> "Dick,
>
>>How did you scan the 12x12 jacket??"
>
> It ain't easy.  A professional scanner that can handle artwork that size 
> costs thousands . . . but you can, for a cuppla hundred or so, buy 
> consumer/small business grade scanners that handle business-size paper, 
> i.e., 8 1/2" x 14".  I have a Microtek ScanMaker X12USL scanner, which may 
> still be available...not sure.  But I know that Epson makes a scanner that 
> size, the Perfection V300 Photo.  I've had good luck with Epson scanners 
> in the past, and I'd go for that if the MicroTek should die.  Also, the 
> top of the line Brother and HP all-in-ones come with business-letter sized 
> scan tables.  I've tried them both, but I really prefer the MicroTek.
>
> You then scan the cover in two parts and laboriously* stitch them together 
> using a photo editing program -- in my case, I use a very old version of 
> Adobe PhotoShop.  *I say laboriously, but modern versions of photo editors 
> (such as the relatively inexpensive Adobe PhotoShop Elements) have 
> utilities that are supposed to do that for you.  They're designed for 
> people who want to take multiple digital landscape photos and then combine 
> them into a composite panorama view.
>
>
>
> --
> ---------------------
>      Dick Baker
>  djml at dickbaker.org
>
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