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Prostix
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01/19/2008 2:08 PM	Alert
Someone told me that instead of scanning the my drawings, take a digital camera and take a picture of the drawing and print it out. Can you do this and get a quality print?Seems to me that a scan would be better quality than a digital camera.

pastelmimigt

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01/20/2008 5:07 PM	Alert
I've heard that scanning does a better job, but my scanner only goes up to 8 1/2 x 11. I guess you could bring it to a print shop and do it there. Using a good quality digital camera my guess is one could produce very good copies. I've never made prints of my artwork photos but if I do, I'd go to a print shop and get a professional copy on archival paper with archival ink. I'm very interested to hear what other people do. Michele

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1Painter42
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01/20/2008 8:47 PM	Alert
scanning can get you better quality because you don't have lighting conditions to deal with and its flat and straight, but if the painting or drawing is bigger than the scanner, that can cause a problem. With paintings a little bigger than the scanner, I've scanned them in pieces and "stitched" them together in photoshop. The biggest things you have to remember when taking a photo is to use the highest resolution setting on your camera, that it is straight and perpendicular to the painting (if the camera is at a slight angle to the painting one side will look bigger than the other, and that there is no wide angle distortion. Lighting can be a problem because indoor lights are yellow, for a drawing, you can use a flash, but i know a flash can be a problem when photographing an oil or acrylic painting that's shiney. I usually scan my drawings.

Justine www.remingtoncreations.com

Cagg
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01/21/2008 7:40 AM	Alert
A high resolution scan will give you the best quality, and you don't have to deal with lens distortion. If the drawing won't fit on the scanner, and its on paper, you can take it to a printer that has a drum scanner and ask them to scan and put it on a CD. If you want to print it yourself.

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