I Think I Need a Scanner????

[Ivanq]

I have a friend that wants me to carve a logo used by the BIA. The original is about 7 inches in diameter and is embroidered (sp?) on a nylon material. I think I could use a flatbed scanner to get an image to convert to a ptn file after processing in paint.net.

My question is what format does a scanner save an image as or do they give you a choice? Has anyone used a scanner for this type of work?

I'm looking at a Canon CanoScan 4400F Color Image Scanner. Good enough?

Thanks,
Cliff in Roswell

[Kenm810]

Hi Cliff,

Most scanners will save your photos in any format you want plus, several graphics programs can convert them after their scanned

But if you have access to a digital camera you can just photo it and upload the photo into a graphics program and work with it from there.

Here’s one on a tee shirt I just took a photo of a minute ago and used paint.net
A quickie and little rough but you get the idea

Ps. This one was only 3x3 the 7" would be much better

[pkunk]

Most scanner software that I've used opens my Photoshop Elements, where I can save to almost any format.

[bluecobra]

Maybe do an image search with google <http://images.google.com/> and possibly save yourself the cost of a scanner?

BLueCoBra