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

[Bruce Stangeland]

Dick,

I use Adobe's Photoshop Elements often to assemble panorama images from two or more scans of my watercolor paintings. With an 8 1/2 x 14" scanner, for a 12 x 12" LP cover, I would do two scans, of the left and right sides of the cover. With two 8 1/2 x 12" images, there would be plenty of overlap in the images (2 1/2" on each) so Photoshop Elements shouldn't have any trouble blending the two images. As long as you have at least 1 - 2 inches of overlap, there's no reason why you couldn't scan larger images, maps, paintings, etc. into 4, 6, or more parts and then merge them two at a time.

I made a blended images from two scans of a 10 x 14" watercolor and showed it to a professional printer. He couldn't tell that it was blended from two images.

Cheers,
Bruce Stangeland


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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:21:52 -0400
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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.

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