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The cards have a Green Border and a B/W picture. How would i scan them when the image is color & b/w? I am unable to have both.

Thanks!

Why would you scan cards for the site in anything but full color mode?  Even if the card picture is B&W, allowing the scanner to force the scan into greyscale loses the tone of the card stock and aging details.

-Tom

I should've phrased my ? differently. When i scanned them, the b/w portion scans super pixalated and looks like a real bad scan. In person, they aren't near as bad. Sorry for the confusion

Don't have enough details about the scanner and settings you're using.  Nor the setting capabilities of your scanner.  It sounds like you either have a very low quality scanner with limited capabilities. Or you're using very low quality settings.

I've looked at your recent scans.  It looks like you're scanning at minimum quality settings.  Right-click on the back image of this card you scanned and select "Open image in new tab":
https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/72641/cid/5937619/1995-Signature-Rookies---Major-Rookies-Signatures-MR4-Manny-Ramirez (and by the way, the back image is incomplete)

Then do the same with this card:
https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/216465/cid/13760433/2019-Panini-Phoenix---Orange-180-Byron-Murphy

The bigger image is the style i used to always have when i scanned. I even sent a ? awhile ago asking why the images are so small when i scan, i thought maybe the site changed something, they never used to be small. (never got a reply). Maybe its my settings that have changed, how, i dont know as i dont even know how to do that...lol technology is not my friend...lol

Yes, the scan settings must have changed.  I set my Output Resolution to 300 dpi and my Output Size to "Flexible".  Your scan of the card I link above looks to be 150 dpi or less.  And if you're not making changes to the image size, then the scanner Output Size must be set to 350 x 250 pixels.

I just looked and it was at 100 dpi. I have changed it to 300 dpi. If you see other images i have scanned that should be changed, please let me know and i will rescan them. Sorry about all that. 

Thanks for the info!

If you go to your Profile page and click on Recently Added, then choose Cards.  You can go back through the uploads and probably find where it changed.

If you go to your Profile page and click on Recently Added, then choose Cards.  You can go back through the uploads and probably find where it changed.  I'd start at the bottom of page 1, if that's 100 dpi, go to the bottom of page 2, etc. until you narrow it down.

You have this set?!?! Can you post a picture of the Matt Carpenter card? No way it's the same Carpenter who plays for the Cardinals.