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From: diana@er.Arco.Com (Diana Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Photographs to bits: how to proceed?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.212744.5058@Arco.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:27:44 GMT
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In article <9103132030.AA21462@willow23.cray.com>, rice@WILLOW.CRAY.COM (Jonathan Rice) writes:
> Here's a novice question for you:
> 
> I'd like to take a photograph of some people, and include it in a DTP'ed
> document. [stuff deleted]
> 
> What I haven't a clue about is how to go from camera to disk.  Do I shoot
> negative or positive film?  If negative, do I work from the neg or from a
> print?  If the photograph is in color, is it better to scan it in color and
> dither or halftone it on the 'puter, or to scan it as grey? 

Well, depends on what kind of results you want, and how you are 
going to have your DTP'ed doc printed.  IF you are doing a 'quick-
and-dirty' rendition of a newsletter, etc., that you will have 
offset printed/copied, and don't want to spend much $$, grey-
scale would be the way to go.  You don't necessarily have to have
a black & white photo however.  I recently used a color Polaroid 
(yep, instant photo), scanned it in as grayscale on my Microtek 
grayscale scanner, edited it in Digital Darkroom, and used it 
in a publication.  It looked just about as good as the 35mm 
B&W stuff I have scanned.  This was just a copied job, however.

Color and 3-color separations are a whole different matter, and 
much too complicated to go into here.  If you do want to 
do color work, your best bet would probably be to find a print 
shop that does computerized color work and let them do the 
scanning, separations, etc., for you, and then have them 
insert the file at print time.  

> What sort of scanner should I be looking for?

There are some DTP services and copy shops that will do scanning 
for a fee--any 8-bit grayscale scanner would do.  Some do a little 
better job than others; apple's scanners impress me more than the 
Microtek I've got, but it is perfectly acceptable most of the time.

                        

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