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<p>[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2119816, member: 73555"]If you do a lot of cropping, it means your image area was too big to start with; this is more true of scanners than cameras, and more true for stamps than coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've had sellers send me this combo - they used the entire 8 x 11 scanner glass to make the image, then cropped away 95% of the result = lousy images. If you are scanning a stamp or coin, make your image area 2 x 2 or at most, 3 x 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>The selected image area for my 1916 quarter (above) was 2 x 2 inches. Plus it's a faster scan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2119816, member: 73555"]If you do a lot of cropping, it means your image area was too big to start with; this is more true of scanners than cameras, and more true for stamps than coins. I've had sellers send me this combo - they used the entire 8 x 11 scanner glass to make the image, then cropped away 95% of the result = lousy images. If you are scanning a stamp or coin, make your image area 2 x 2 or at most, 3 x 3. The selected image area for my 1916 quarter (above) was 2 x 2 inches. Plus it's a faster scan.[/QUOTE]
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