How can I scan this?

[Mario]

I'd like to produce some high-quality scans of the artwork on the *side* of my pinball machine. Here's a pic:

http://www.dalessio.ws/arcade/SuperMarioBrosPinball.jpg

Any ideas on how I can do this (without destroying the cab

[cholin]

Pick up the scanner and press it sideways against ur sideart.  LOL dude I got no idea, good luck with that though.

[Mario]

Pick up the scanner and press it sideways against ur sideart.

[Rahzel]

All you have to do is take pictures of all your artwork standing directly in front so they're not on an angle, then bring the images into Illustrator and trace over them. Then you take measurements of the artwork on the pinball machine and resize it to that. EASY

[zorg]

if you can scan it, believe me it will be easier and more accurate to recreate from scan than from photos.

[Rahzel]

As long as the photo is OK quality, you can trace it very easily, you can even take a couple photos and piece them together.

[zorg]

As long as the photo is OK quality, you can trace it very easily, you can even take a couple photos and piece them together.

OK explain how with photos you avoid
1) angular and paralax distorsion ?
2) scaling problems, taking photos from slightly different distance implies scaling problems (the easiest ones to correct)

if you wnat to have a set of photos as accurate as a set of scan.

you must be sure be perfectly perpendicular to the piece you want to reproduce and to be sure to move in a perfectly paralel way beetween 2 consecutive photos.

a friend of mine (industrial photographer) use a specific 2 axes tool in order to respect thoses constrains.

[rohan]

I've gotta agree with Zorg on this one...I remember Ravage used scanning with excellent results...it was some kind of "ace a4 see-thru scanner" I do my best to submit photos for tracing, and distortion is a major hurdle.  Although correctable, distortion is almost a non-issue with scanning it seems.

[hyiu]

do you have a canon digi cam ??  (or know someone who has a canon digi cam ??)

if so, they have a "stitch mode" which you can take multi pics, and there's a pgrm to stitch them together to become one...

(not perfect, but good enough...)

as for avoiding different angles and stuffs, I think if you measure your distance, and use the same zoom, same lighting, same everything when taking the pics, just move the digi cam across, you should get pics that are workable in photoshop.

I don't know, but from your pic, seems like a normal scanner will not work...  how about a handheld scanner ?? (know anyone has one of those ??) those might work...

[Mario]

do you have a canon digi cam ??

[Ravage]

...I remember Ravage used scanning with excellent results...it was some kind of "ace a4 see-thru scanner"

It was a HP4600. It came with stitiching software (tho I use Adobe photoshop elements for that bit).... Theyre not very expensive and the results are *awesome* as I've proved.

A few more scans in the pipeline.... The Ravster will return in full soon

[zorg]

A few more scans in the pipeline.... The Ravster will return in full soon

some more scan this is a good news
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