All About Pocket Knives

On my new scanner my pictures are not good trying somethings. They are so small when I add them to a post, they will enlarge on my end. Also they are blurry. Not happy about them. May need a camera. This knife has been seen before.

Harold

You might check with a past thread under General Knife Discussion, Indoor Knife Photography. There was some good tips in there from many people, and a photo of the setup I use.

That is a heck of a standard dollar knife you have Harald.

I feel your pain. My scans are poor and I don't know how to make it happen. Barry Wolder (1fartsmella) scans knives and the images are fantastic. I would like to see him do a brief tutorial here.
Check out this scan from him. They are all that good; how does he do it?

Cal, Thank you for your kind words. My scanner is an old HP Scanjet 4890 that I bought back in 2001. When I scan the knives, I use the HP image zone editing program that came with the scanner. I crop the photos first. To 800 to 1000 pixels wide. Then I lighten the photo, they usually come out to dark without a little help. When the scan is the full size of the glass the file is to large for web use (usually 10MB). When the photo is cropped down its a better size for the internet (800 to 900KB). I find when I try to enlarge the pix, they get pixelated and grainy. So I never make them larger than 100% Sometimes I get some bad reflections from the blade. To remedy this sometimes when the knife is rotated 180 degrees the reflection is gone.
The scanning is definitely a practice thing. I'm no expert, practice helps. Thanks again for your kind words, Barry

That is a nice one Harold!

Thanks for the comments on the Dollar Knife. My old scanner was great. My new one not so. It is a HP Desk Jet 2652. Very cheap maybe $35-40. Will play with it some more, who knows it took me awhile to figure the old one out.

HP