What is cropping and why should I care?
Cropping is the process of trimming the outer portions of an image (1) to remove the portions of the scan which cover the slide/negative/photo edge/mount and/or (2) to size resulting image to a specific aspect ratio (e.g., 4″X6″). By default, we do not crop the full resolution TIFF images we provide to you. By default, we crop the slide/negative/photo edges from JPEG images, however. Please let us know if you would prefer a different treatment. See our detailed scanning explanation page for some examples. Back to top Tell me about image file formats. This is a big topic… There are many different image file formats and many tradeoffs in using one over another. Image files that we provide for your scans may be in two formats: JPEG and TIFF. JPEG is a standard format used on the web. JPEG files can encode images of any pixel dimension (i.e., number of pixels). JPEG files compress well and provide good quality, even at fairly high compression levels. JPEG files we provide are saved at hi
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