Hi DM,
Yes, it's grainy because I applied three different sharpening filters on it in Photoshop.
I felt the artwork might be degraded but I think you will agree the readability is increased substantially.
I also tweaked the colour levels to move the white level of the pages higher making them a bit more lifelike in appearance. A bit less 'grey' as fiche tend to look.
Finally I resave them in
IrFranview.You can get IRFran for
FREE from this site:
http://www.irfanview.com/After placing all the corrected scans within the same folder I open a page in IrFranview and then type 'B' for Batch mode.
At the bottom of the opening page there is an OPTIONS button.
Hitting that lets you set the quality level as a percentage when saving.
So after choosing a new Output Folder first I try different quality levels on some test pages until I can lower the page scan size to a number in the 600-800kb range for the average page without having them look like crap.
I never save on top of the originals as you never know exactly which looks best until you've tried it a couple times.
Finally when I'm happy with the final results of the test pages I apply the setting to the entire book.
There is an ADVANCED button as well where you can do any number of tweaks to page sizes, sharpness, colours, etc. but use with caution.
Please give IrFran a try in batch mode - most of this is pretty self explanatory and it would help cut down on the page sizes considerably without hurting the quality of your scans very much if at all.
-Yoc
I guess it's okay, but it looks a little grainy. How'd you manage to save it in a smaller size?
