Margo9023
shadowdancer
Hi Shadowdancer! Thank you that is helpful. Yes, I have many drawings in journals in regular size journals - some of them I wanted to get enlarged but I think it will be a problem. The sad thing is, some of them are really different, and I luv them.
Thanks again, Margo
Well, if you know who will be doing the printing, and the eventual card size, you can figure the aspect ratio. Divide the length by the width. That is it
Then, you can decide what size you want to actually draw to.
So, if you have an aspect ratio of 1.5 (dividing length by width)
and you have an idea of the width you want to work on (using 4 inches as an example) you need to multiply 4 by 1.5 and that gives you the length. So you would be working on a board or card 6 x 4 inches.
If I were doing my own deck (in my dreams....lol)
I would want to work to an eventual tarot card size as printed by printers studio. I think that was 1.72
So, I would want reasonable sized board, let's say 5 inches wide. Multiply that by 1.72 and I know I would have to mark the length of working area as being 8.6 inches.
That is how I would work it out anyways. Hope it helps
With regards size you have to remember each time you scan an image, tweak it and save it, you lose quality. It is perhaps better to start slightly larger and size smaller, rather than start small and try to size it up. You will not gain quality by making an image larger. Think of how a photo starts to look when you zoom in on detail. You are making it larger, but it isn't long before it becomes fuzzy. Just a thought.
Hi Shadowdancer! Thank you that is helpful. Yes, I have many drawings in journals in regular size journals - some of them I wanted to get enlarged but I think it will be a problem. The sad thing is, some of them are really different, and I luv them.
Thanks again, Margo