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image, scale, enlarging how?
Posted by FlankersRule on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:50 AM

I've got a couple of questions that don't really fit into one category here.  I am wondering how the scanner attached to my computer can do what i need it to do.

Firstly i want to be able to scan a decal sheet i have in 1/144th scale and re-print it in 1/72nd scale using blank decal paper.

Secondly i want to scan an etched brass set in 1/72nd scale and print that out in 1/32nd scale in order to attempt to make my own versions

 

So! is it possible, and how is it done?

  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:08 PM

The scanner will scan the images, rescaling them is something done in either a  photo editing or drawing software.  Some scanner software does have the provisions to enlarge or reduce as well. The formulas are posted here on the forum...you'll have to search for them.

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:32 PM

Enlarging an image is much more dicey than reducing one. You stand a very good chance of getting a lot of blurry edges which would need to be cleaned up. Then there's the ethical issue of copying someone else's work without permission.

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  • Member since
    December 2009
  • From: South Carolina
Posted by dahutist on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:10 PM

1/72 will require a setting of 200% enlargement over 1/144.

1/32 will require your copier to make a 226% enlargement over 1/72.

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