Scanning fabric

I'm a little confused about how to scan fabric. Maybe I need to learn about my new scanner. I scanned some of the postcards I made on Friday and when the scan is at 100 percent it looks great and you can even see all the grain in the fabric.

But when I try to reduce the image it gets all these fuzzy lines on it that looks really strange. I have been told that when you scan images to post on the web you should scan them at a lower resolution - my scanner is doing it at 300 dps. I tried to reduce the resolution in Paint Shop Pro but it looked funny there plus it made the picture the size of a stamp. You can see below that it looks strange when it's reduced. Click on it to enlarge it and it looks fine. I don't want to learn software, I want to play instead! Pooh. Here's a postcard I made with this really fun fabric I found - it's called Drama Queens and it's like a comic strip.


Drama Queen Postcard
Click to enlarge

Posted by judi at April 24, 2005 9:55 PM
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It's a great postcard. And i don't mind having to click to see it the way it was meant to be.

Posted by: Kate at April 25, 2005 2:30 PM

I thought the enlargement was fine and I loved the cartoon - I've often fantasized about having Blondie's (Dagwood's wife, not the singer, although she was pretty hot stuff too)amazing figure except her posture is chronically bent. I think if she stood up straight she would be taller than Dagwood and would have to ditch the heels. Maybe it's osteoporosis. Or cramps.
Kathy
xxx

Posted by: Kathy White at April 26, 2005 2:23 PM
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