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Old 03-28-2015, 02:26 PM
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Default Hopefully You guys aren't sick of my questions yet. Here's another.

I've noticed that a lot of you on here have EXCELLENT scans/pictures of your cards how do you do it ??? I have a scanner and it comes out like shit the cards so small and there's tons of white space.

I'll attach one of my pictures vs one of the scans of a card I just bought off one of ya. I want to be able to make my other cards as professional as the double side picture rather than ugly iPhone pics of the front and back.

Is there a specific software that will allow you to be able to do the double side thing and make it all on one page with no white space ? If anyone can go into great detail so that a dummy like me would understand I'd very much appreciate it and be very grateful =)
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Old 03-28-2015, 03:01 PM
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Josh- I believe I speak for most of the forum when I say that all questions are welcome.

I have a Cannon flatbed scanner which has been of great use for me. I don't have difficulty like you described.

As far as a side by side display in one of these threads, upload both pictures, but then download only the first pic, then move the cursor to the end of the first picture 'code' - should appear like:

[xxx-xx] [xxx-xxx]

I'm no expert at all, but I hope that helps you,
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Old 03-28-2015, 03:07 PM
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Hello Josh, a couple things that will help. Here's what I do. First you need a decent scanner with CCD scanning. The epson v30/33 are great and less than a $100. There are plenty of other scanners that work just as well with more bells and whistles, but the important thing is the CCD technology. The CCD scanning does a much better job on scanning graded cards. Second, decent image editing software. I use Photoscape since it is free. This software will allow you to easily crop the image (remove all the extra white space) and combine two images on a "page" (show the front and back together). That's it about it. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other options to do it quicker, but I like the cheaper approach so I can buy more cards.

Other thoughts, scan in a dark room with the scanner lid up. Also, scan with the highest scan setting possible then, if needed, resize in the software.



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Old 03-28-2015, 03:13 PM
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It must be the chepo scanner I have. It was a walmart all in one special a couple Christmas's ago. CCD I'll have to look into thanks for the suggestions guys !
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Check to see if there is a "professional" setting, or preview seting. That might help you "preview" the scan, then you can crop, and eliminate the white space
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It must be the chepo scanner I have. It was a walmart all in one special a couple Christmas's ago. CCD I'll have to look into thanks for the suggestions guys !
I had a cheapo scanner as well. Got a Canoscan from Cannon with CCD and it makes a WORLD of difference.

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Yeah, i got one of those 4-in-1 scanner/fax combos.
It is a HP officejet 4500 g510n-z
Sometimes it is good, other times its just uggly. I tried all sorts of stuff, light on or off and lid up or close.
I guess i need to look into my settings on the machine. I notice i do much better with just 1 card in it, than putting like 3-4 cards at once.
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a couple recent threads of scanner success stories ...

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=163471

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=185631
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Another idea is to scan at a fairly high resolution, maybe 3-400 dpi. Save that file, then open it with most any photo editing software. MS paint if you have windows, whatever comes with Apple if you don't. You should have some sort of image editor, they give them out with pretty much all devices -Scanner, camera, printer...........There's probably some free ones out there.

Once you've opened it in the image editor just crop away the white space.

The side by side images I've done I do pretty much like that except my scanner software lets me preview and scan just the bit I want. It has to be done through the scanner software, not by simply pushing the scan button on the machine (I've never used the button on either scanner I have)

I scan the front, scan the back, open both in paint, copy the front and paste it into a new blank image, copy and paste the back image alongside the front image, then crop it to just the front and back and save.

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Some helpful hints and tips by you guys have helped me out a lot ! a new scanner would certainly help with the quality but I'm going to have a much improved photos of my collection now !!! THANK YOU everyone !
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Excel spreadsheets only $5
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Most any Flatbed Scanner that lets you remove the top (Lid) will do well.... Removing the top provides a jet black background for the scanned image. Mine is a 6 year old HP Scanjet 5590. These can be purchased all day long for $50ish dollars. I use Picassa for editing photos - is also freeware.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-ScanJet-5...item1c505f9d67

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In addition to the beautiful black background, leaving the lid open in a dark room (all the way dark, not kinda dark) also helps the scan have truer colors and will mean that you frequently don't have to tweak them. Scans where the colors have been edited often don't end up looking anything like they are supposed to.

I also always scan on the highest setting (600 dpi on mine) to get the best possible image. If you need to send/post a bunch of smaller files it is easy to compress and save a copy after the fact, but nobody wants to scan things twice so start with the highest possible resolution.
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