Scanning

Before scaning the images, the scanner needs to be set to 300 dpi.

to do this (with a epson stylus NX430) you must:

step one go to the start menu, highlight all programs and highlight the epson scanning option. (make sure it is not the epson settings)

here is an image below showing the first step.

Step two Once you have clicked the epson scan option, a window will pop up giving you the options of Scan, Customise, Help and close. press the Customise option and it will bring you to this window displayed below.

Step Three  that new window as you can see has a drop menu, click that and it shows you all the options to change the dpi. click 300 and your now on your way to scanning!

Scanning is easy, all you have to do is place what ever you want to scan on the scanner. close the lid and press the scan to pc option.

There are 3 main levels of resolution used.

Web 72 dpi: The web only needs images that are 72dpi, usually web devices such as email, facebook and blogs cannot upload any file bigger. If you are uploading any photos or images to the internet, make sure they are jpegs, giffs or pngs and have a dpi that does not exceed 90dpi.

Print 150 dpi: Images that are going to be printed out should not be lower than 150dpi as the image will be too pixelated and therefore the image will look blurry or blocky which often provides a bad presentation.

Presentation for fashion (industry standard) 300dpi: At a professional level, the dpi needs to be set to 300 similar reasoning to printing. It is the industry standard that every image has no detction of pixelation, these images are used a virety of scales such as; on billbords, magazines, look books, posters etc. With the bigger dpi it allows the image to look clear, crisp and professional on all scales seen by the masses.