Scanned or composed album pages? Was: The RCSD Award

Because the inquiring minds want to know :-) , I have decided to verify the
whole thing on a real case.

So I have scanned an existing album page, at 100 dpi (!), and I have then
composed the same page from scratch. In the composed page I have used the
same images as those displayed by the scanned one, by simply extracting them
from it.

Up to you to judge the results.

The scanned page is at:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/resolution1.htm

and the composed one is at:
http://www.values.ch/Temp/resolution.htm

Victor Manta

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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
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Tom,

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There are some technical problems with album pages that are scanned. The
resolution of printers is much higher than that of computer screens. The
properly scanned album pages will produce big scans (that have to be
scrolled and scrolled, in both directions, and will also take more time to
download) or they will be reduced to smaller pages, but with texts that
cannot be anymore read on screens, because they will be too small, and
also
with smaller images. That's why, IMO:

- it is easier to work directly on computers for things that will be
finally
displayed on computer screens (what you see is what others get too)
- we won't have "real" album pages on our screens, but rather Web pages
that
approximate them, by displaying less information and by eventually making
other compromises too.

Actually, this could make the whole thing interesting and challenging

Victor Manta