Preferred Scan Format for Release

[icie]

As consumers of stuff, how do you prefer people to release their scans?
It will be in colour, so here's the poll for DPI [resolution], file format, and filtering options. (You can select more than one option, but please try not to select more than one option for each 'section')

Regarding filtering options: magazines and some artbooks have a "screening effect" which becomes apparent when they are scanned. Choose "filtered" if you prefer the scanner to also use their leet PS plugins to neutralise the effect, or "unfiltered" if you want them to leave it alone so you (who are more leet, supposedly) can do it yourself.

[Mai Tokiha]

I'm going for 300dpi, Png and Filtered :neko:

[TK.]

I went 300dpi, JPG, Filtered.
Only went for JPG since ive only got a small HDD and PNG packs just kill my avaliable space >_<

[Sehr Gut Hentai]

I'm going for Jpg but i really don't remember why i do that :neko:

[Shiroki Okane]

300dpi, PNG and filtered for me.
not too huge, nice quality ^^

[icek]

JPG!!! PNG doesn

[DemonOuterverse]

I'm sorry, but JPGs are right out unless they use the YCbCr 1x1 1x1 1x1 (none) subsampling, which not very many people actually DO use. Anything else, the reds start to bleed and become majorly screwed up.

For me, either 300dpi or 600dpi PNG w/no filtering done using the scanner software. Any filtering should be done to the raw scanned image, but NOT before it has been scanned.

*PaintShop Pro term, Photoshop term may be different.

[Blankman]

300dpi PNG without filters

[felinewong]

BTW, its PPI not DPI
Monitors displays Pixels, not Dots

[Adust Wanderer]

BTW, its PPI not DPI
Monitors displays Pixels, not Dots
Did you look at the thread topic? It's scanning, not display.
****er.

300 DPI PNG

[Shragei]

don't swear at other people.

[Fernik]

Guess 300 dpi or ppi will do the trick for nice scans, good quality and size, also PNG (not lost of definition).

[stukasa]

Hmm, I'll pick 300 dpi (600 sounds nice but it's probably overkill :p) in JPG format. I used to like PNG, but ever since I started converting PNG files to JPG without a loss of definition I've liked JPGs more (plus, the file size is much smaller! :D). Oh yeah, and I'll pick filtered too.

[Cruzer]

i always use 600 DPI, PNG and unfiltered(i prefer to do all the work myself).

and the scan's turn out quite nice after a little while in photoshop, and when i convert them into JPG,
i do it only for screening on the web.
besides that's,i have my own serie, MiniMage(C).

i send it finished scan's to a swedish professional named Magnus Bj

[SebastianvonKane]

Hi. Since I'm a Windows user (toguh I use an Irix-based workstation in my school), for pictures, I rather to have the scans in the BMP without filtering at full colo depth. No matter if the 32 or 64 bits color depth turns the file, extremely heavy.
The best is the quality, loseless pictures.
Besides, I can manage and render the BMP files on Pixar RenderMan under Mac or Massive and Maya under Irix.

Something I've got to say about the PNG format: one of my programs detected an extremely slight color variance between the PNG and the BMP, where BMP showed the actual color in the picture's matrix.

[Lumoco]

I like to use i always use 600 DPI/PNG/unfiltered and adjust everything later.

[CindyLou]

I have no scanner, and if I were to buy one. It would be the less expensive one.
My low res scan setting will reflect this.

[Larry Laffer]

It depends on the scanner. I'll set it to the highest resolution possible.

[Yates]

I use 300/png/filtered.

[Gaylord Focker]

I use 600/BMP/unfiltered

[Brenda Starr]

I like to use 300/BMP/unfiltered.