# Scanning for Dummies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scanning-for-dummies/116795>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 1, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scanning-for-dummies/116795 "2002-07-01T06:47:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![bristlesage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scanning-for-dummies/116795/1 "2002-07-01T06:47:46Z")

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Okay. I wanted to submit a picture of myself to the Unofficial Straight Dope Picture Pages (as featured in MPSIMS and [here](http://members.aol.com/jonahjamsn/sdmbpix.html)). Well, I scanned it on my Windows '98 machine with my UMAX Astra 1220P scanner into Photoshop 2.0 Deluxe (well, okay, all of the above is my mother’s equipment as I don’t own a scanner). This thing came out both huge and with really crummy resolution. I’m on page 5 of the above link if you want to see how bad the resolution is.  
I’ve seen pretty good quality pictures come off the printer on this machine, so my question is: Anyone have any idea how I can get it to look better when I next scan it? Thanks to **Max Carnage** for getting this good of a result.