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How to Scan Artwork with the Epson V550
Apr 29, 2021
Today Matt Moloney walks us through his process for scanning artwork and other graphic design work using the Epson Perfection V550 scanner. Read more on scanning with the Epson V550 here: https://filtergrade.com/scanning-analog-film-with-the-epson-perfection-v550-photo-scanner/ Buy the Epson Perfection V550 Scanner Here: https://adorama.rfvk.net/adYBQ (affiliate link) Download Epson Scan 2 Here: https://epson.com/Support/Scanners/Perfection-Series/Epson-Perfection-V550-Photo/s/SPT_B11B210201 Check out some more of Matt Moloney's work on his Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/matt_moloney/ Background Music: Stained Moonboots by NoMBe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa2Lphlcewqb42zSjAuie5w/ Take Me Down to the Fashion Show by NoMBe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa2Lphlcewqb42zSjAuie5w/ Where To? by Birocratic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrEAQx48oTZy7f9ZWsDawKg/ Cruise With Me by Patrick Patrikious https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTPI2hZYxoHtdGEpdFoaU5A/ š„ Find MORE of Matt's videos to Watch! š„
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what's going on everybody it's matt here
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again from filtergrade and we recently
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got a few
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comments on our old youtube video about
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scanning
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um polaroids with the epson v550 so i'm
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just gonna go through a little quick
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updated process using the same scanner
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the epson v550
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this time i'll be scanning some of my
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artwork and i'll just take you through
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the process of
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how to make everything look you know the
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way it actually looks in real life so
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that all the colors are matched
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all the levels are balanced and
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everything like that so let's just go
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ahead and jump into the epson v550
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and onto the computer and and we'll get
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into it
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all right so to start when you're
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scanning
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just regular artwork make sure you have
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your
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blank slide over the transparency unit
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just since we're not scanning film you
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need to have just a plain white
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background
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um after that go ahead and wipe your
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your scanner down just to make sure
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everything's nice and clean when you go
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ahead and start
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if you have like a can of air or
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something like that you can use that as
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well
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or like a an eyeglass cleaner something
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like that
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then you're gonna just go ahead and
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place your your artwork down
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i usually like to keep it um all the way
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in the top right corner just i always do
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it there just to make sure like
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consistency and everything so just place
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it all the way down
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then in your epson scan software
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you're going to want to make sure your
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mode is in document mode and not in
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photo mode
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obviously the scanner is what your epson
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v550
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scan setting you're going to use i
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usually just have it on default and it
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just automatically works
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if you want to be a perfectionist you
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can just click document again
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that doesn't really matter so i'm just
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going to leave it on default
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and we'll go into document mode
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like i said before and from here all i'm
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going to do
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is press preview before i worry about
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any of the settings
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just to see what the work looks like
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all right so as you can see it's
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definitely not
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what it needs to be it does not look
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like what we had it as before
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um so we're just going to look at the
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settings and see what
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what's causing this so go into main
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settings in
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document size and document source this
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looks right
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but the image type is black and white
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you're going to want to change that to
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color
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and it's going to bring out the whole
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you know image not just the black and
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white
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if you want you can also do grayscale
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this is what
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people usually think of as black and
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white grayscale is just every single
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tone
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of black or white whereas black and
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white they're literally referring to as
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either black or
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white um just something to keep in mind
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if you're doing some
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some grayscale stuff but we're gonna do
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color for this one
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dpi for my artwork or polaroids or any
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type of like document
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i usually like to stay 600 or above
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for this one i'll just do a thousand
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i've been doing a thousand recently so
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let's just leave it at that
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um and then let's go down into format
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and like the export settings in the
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bottom left so
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image format for my artwork i'm always
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doing jpeg
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i will jpeg or pdf jpeg is just the most
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standard and easy to use
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less the least amount of hassle so let's
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just stick with jpeg
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for file name i usually like to do the
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date
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so the date backwards just this is
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another consistency thing just for the
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archive to make sure that
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i'm always um you know using the same
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format so i can easily go back and find
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everything
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um so we're gonna do the date and then
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i'll just do the name of this
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this artwork and then usually i'll scan
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more than
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one version of it so let's just use the
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file counter just to
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have different numbers for it and then
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so now we're ready to actually scan it
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what i'm going to do is scan one cropped
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version of just the square
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and you can just drag that that tool
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around the
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artwork and then i'll do one scan of the
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whole entire sheet
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and to scan both of them at the same
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time we're going to click on the two
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right there and to save it in a specific
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spot you can go
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into the folder and let's go ahead and
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select the folder that we're going to
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save it into
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all right so let's go ahead and open
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these up
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and you can see the full this is the
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full detail
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of the scan it's crazy because it's it
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almost looks like
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more detail than what you would actually
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see in person but
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yeah definitely a huge fan of scanning
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the work in
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and seeing it on the computer gives it
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that like
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textured feel that you can't really
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replicate just
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through random digital artworks you know
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and so let's just jump back into epson
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scan so you can see
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a little bit of the differences um
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in terms of the settings and things like
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that if you go into the advanced
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settings you can change a little bit
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up just to fix it so you don't have to
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do that in like photoshop or
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lightroom afterwards if your image is
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too dark
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you can obviously just brighten it up
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with the brightness and darkness slider
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this is kind of a preference thing i
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usually like to leave my levels at zero
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unless it looks wrong
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which in this case it doesn't look bad
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or anything
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sometimes i'll play with the contrast
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settings depending on
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the style for the artwork but again
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i usually leave this just at zero
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because
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it looks normal and then gamma i'm not
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too sure about
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but yeah i never really touched this to
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be honest so let's just leave this at
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what it was
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and that's pretty much it in terms of
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scanning your artwork
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we're going to go ahead and scan one
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more piece just as another example
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and so for this one let's go ahead and
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try out
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um the scan settings i'm i honestly
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never really do this but let's just try
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out magazine settings
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see what um
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the difference is see what the the
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resolution and everything that we'll get
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is so
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i'm gonna go ahead and drag out the box
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to scan this
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and and again i'm just gonna test out
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this setting i'm not too sure how it
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will be but
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we're gonna try it out i did notice that
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magazine
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the auto dpi is just 300 which
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i don't really like doing under 600 but
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let's just try it out
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see how it looks this will be a much
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quicker scan since it's not
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as high resolution
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but for me i usually just do my scans in
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the background
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so like i've worked so i don't really
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care too too much
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although this is pretty i don't know
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it's pretty high resolution still but
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i feel like there's some like blurriness
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to it that i'm not
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getting in the 1000 dpi
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like this seems a little more and
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obviously it's partially just the photos
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that i'm using but
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this seems to me the one on the left
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that 300 dpi that seems a little more
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rough around the edges and not as sharp
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even just in the black line
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on for the 21 savage one this one's a
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thousand dpi and you can see
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the darkness in this line whereas this
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for the magazine
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standard setting on the epsilon scan 2
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software it's not very
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not very crisp so i would just stick to
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600 dpi and above
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and maybe i don't know i i personally
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i'll probably just stick with the
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document mode
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i think it's much just more consistent
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for my work but
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really it's all a preference thing like
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i said but
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yeah i hope you enjoyed this little
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quick scanning tutorial if you have any
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specific questions feel free to leave
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them below in the comments
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we also have an article on the blog
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which i'll link in the description below
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um but be sure to check both of those
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out as well so thanks so much and have a
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good one