Ok,

something I am wondering about.

I scan covers at 120 dpi 24 bit color. One of my pet peeves is not being about to read the small print on a scan. This comes into compression of the file and how resizing works.

Anyway, I submitted 2 profiles recently Sean Connery 007 Vol1 and Vol2 with cover scans done at 120 dpi etc

today I goto update profiles and I see someone has resubmitted the scan with more compression and smaller image size and it is getting approved.

From what I gathered from the rules larger scans will be down sized by the database, users don't need to to be editing images for this.

Am I wrong on that ? or has them been a change ? Or is the resubmitted image the DB's doing ?

-Robertg

Be sure to vote NO on them if they are of lesser quality than the existing scan in the DB.  The screeners should also reject it in that case but sometimes they need NO votes to help catch their eye.  Good days and bad days and all that.

Extra info on the image submission: DVDP reduces the image down to 500x700 and then starts at 1% compression level and keeps increasing it until it gets a file that's 200,000 bytes or less.

Don't think of it as DPI but PPI (pixels per inch).  If you set the scanner to scan 100 dpi a DVD cover is about 500x700 pixels (because covers are about 5x7 inches).

Locally i scan at 300 dpi, reduce the scan size in software till both dimensions are within 500x700 and then save with the least compression that will get me under the 200K limit (and hope the image is better than the existing).  I save a 1000x1400 minimum size uncompressed scan for myself.