The Quiltwise Gallery Scanning Standards

Please follow these guidelines if you want to prepare you own scan for The Quiltwise Gallery. The purpose of these guidelines is for you to send us a basic scan, without performing any enhancements on it, optimised for display on a 640x480 screen (lots of people still use that resolution!). We will enhance it as required and save it in our preferred formats and compression. We are happy to send you a copy of our display version of the scan at your request.

If you are using a package such as Corel Scan that allows you to perform automatic enhancements, please switch the option off, or else please also ensure you send us the RAW (unprocessed) file the software allows you to save when you save the scan.

STEP 1   For the picture of full quilt, set the scanner to the resolution corresponding to the approximate size of your photograph:

Less than 5x3 inches (12x8 cm): use 150 dpi
Approximately 6x4 inches (15x10 cm): use 100 dpi
Larger than 7x5 inches (18x13 cm): use 50 dpi

STEP 2   Set the scanner to Full Colour. If it has a range of colour resolutions, chose 24 bit or 16 bit colour. Do not use 8 bit colour.

STEP 3   Set the scanning envelope/box/frame close to the quilt, but not touching its borders.

STEP 4   Make the scan and save it as a standard .BMP file. Do not choose any of the compression formats — we want all the pixels of the original scan in the file you send to The Quiltwise Gallery.

STEP 5   If you want a close-up picture of any part of the quilt, reset the scanning envelope/box/frame to slightly larger than the specific area of interest.

STEP 6   Set the scan resolution to 200 dpi (or 300 dpi if it is a very small area, such as a single quilted flower pattern).

STEP 7   Make the scan and save it as a standard .BMP file. Do not choose any of the compression formats — we want all the pixels of the original scan in the file you send to The Quiltwise Gallery.

STEP 8   Store your scan(s) in a WinZip file and mail it to The Quiltwise Gallery, along with the other information requested under the heading Displaying Your Quilts.

If you know from your experience that these standards can be improved, please feel free to send us your suggestions for amendments to the Scanning Standards. It will help us considerably if you could send us a scan prepared according to the Scanning Standards and another prepared in accordance with your amendments. We will adopt any suggestions that will be easy for other people to implement without having to be experts in using their scanner.

Thank you for your assistance and co-operation.


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This page can be found at www.lasotell.com.au and was updated Monday, 3 January 2000.