Mike said:
I scanned 35mm slides into my hard drive. Now i want to show them as a
slide show. But they show up in their original size. How do i get them to
be full screen? I use an Epson 4180.
Open the slides into a Photo editor and look at the image size in pixels,
also see what the dpi or ppi is on the image.
If your display screen is 1024 x 768, that is the image size you want the
image to be at about 72 DPI. Monitors only care about pixels, not the dpi.
If you are doing it for a standard TV the image needs to be 640 x 480
pixels.
To scan a 35 mm slide to show on a 1024 x 768 computer display you scan at
812 dpi. (use 800 dpi). That will fill the top to bottom of the screen with
too much for the sides. A 35 mm slide does not have the same ratio of width
to height as your computer screen. You will most likely have black at the
top and bottom of the screen.
Go to Professional Mode:
http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/per418/per418rf/howto_1.htm#choose the appropriate scanning
Make Scan Settings
http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/per418/per418rf/howto_2.htm#for films b
click For film
The way I read the instructions for film, they are doing the calculations
behind your back.
They talk about setting the output resolution to 300 dpi and a target size
for a photo printed on a printer.
That is plain wrong.
What you need is a setting that gives you 800 DPI at a 100% size. You need
output to a image file.
This page is for improving your scans.
http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/per418/per418rf/howto_3.htm#create beautiful reproductions a
I do not have a Epson 4180 scanner, my scanner is an Canon 8400F. It has
very different software and to me it is a hell of a lot easier to set the
dpi for scanning a 35 mm slide.
