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[telophase]

I HAVE A SCANNNNNNNER!!



It picks up great subtleties in shading - I think I sold the marker piece I was thinking of testing, so I don't have that to show you, but I scanned in the cover of Minekura's Sugar Coat artbook so you can see:



I scanned that at 300ppi, then shrank it down for Web display. Here's an actual-pixel-size chunk of the scan. You can see the dots laid down by the printer as the book was printed, but they're fairly unobtrusive.



Wheeeeeeeeee!

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

I had to completely rearrange my office area to find a place for it, especially since the SCSI cable that came with it was so short, the CPU has to be within a foot and a half of the scanner. Arg!

And it only took two worried phone calls to the boy (he used to work a help desk) to get it up and working. For some reason the scanning driver isn't installing to Photoshop, so I can't scan from within PS, but I'll be emailing Epson to ask what the hell's up with that. It was happening with my previous scanner, too, so I know it's not the scanner's fault.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah that would be a pain in the ass to arrange. Hopefully they get everything figured out soon. I have scanned from PS for so long, I don't think I remember how to do it without.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Luckily it slaps a shortcut on my desktop, so I can find it, but it then saves to the hard drive instead of opening up in PS, which is just ANNOYING.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Eww yuck. Is it saving it as a .gif or .jpg when you scan? I had one pre-photoshop days that would save as a gif and compress all funny. Then when I got PS it would scan in there just fine.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It gives me an option of saving as a tiff, so I use that so as to have no compression.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

That's even better :)