Wow, thanks for taking the time Irene for giving me such a great roadmap for my
pics. I'm gonna save and print this and start scanning away!
JC
Irene Duma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi John,
If you¹re spending all that time scanning them, which takes time, I¹d
suggest scanning at print resolution, which is 300 dpi. You never know when
you might need something going to print. You can always downconvert for web
later. But you can¹t take web ready art and make it print ready.
Make some backups of these scans, burn to CD or DVD, call them your
masters, and keep them safe.
Now you can prep for web. Make a copy of your scans. Web-ready art needs 72
dpi. And yes, Flickr will resize for you. It also allows for different size
viewings, so I think putting up pics bigger than 600px wide is smart.
Depends also what you are doing this for. Are you putting them up with
creative commons licensing for others to use? Knowing why you are putting
them up online may help you decide what size is best. There are lots of
pros up there. Maybe you can see what they are doing, or ask them.
Ok, back to prepping for web. Remember jpeg is lossy compression, so do not
do your corrections to jpegs. It reapplies the compression and degrades the
photo. Do them to .psd files. Save to jpeg at very end only.
You may want to colour correct your pics. Depends on your scanner, they vary
in how well they portray colours.
In Photoshop, you can colour correct your pics. Easiest is with levels.
You can do Image>Adjustments> auto levels
Or
Image >Image>levels.
I usually do the second one. Adjust this so that the blacks are true black,
and the white is true white. Slide the little arrows in to touch where the
³peaks² start. Makes a world of difference.
After scanning you may want to do a Filter> sharpen>unsharp mask. That can
sharpen it up, make less blurry.
Then you want to Save for web. Quality 70 % is usually good enough.
You can automate these tasks (not levels or unsharp mask, those are done
individually according to each pic¹s needs.)
But Auto levels and then Save to Web could be automated.
First you record an Action: Window>action. Basically you do your optimizing
to one photo, and record the steps you take.
Then you Batch it. File>automate>batch. You can apply your Action to all the
pics you have in a folder. That will automate the process, and help you save
time.
For your blog, you might want to make an action that resizes them to 600px.
But start from the best quality to do this. Meaning don¹t do this to a jpeg
you have all ready optimized for the web. Lossy compression is a a bummer
that way.
There are lots of tutorials on the web on how to do this.
Hope that helps.
Irene
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On 2/5/08 2:53 PM, "John Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Thanks Charles, I'll start there and see what happens.
> JC
> --- Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > If you're using Flickr.... why not just let flickr
>> > resize them?
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>> > On Feb 5, 2008 11:38 AM, John Coffey
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>>> > > A bit off the vlogger topic but somewhat related
>> > so
>>> > > thanks in advance for any help. I've got over 30
>> > years
>>> > > of print photos that I want to start storing on
>> > Flikr.
>>> > > I'm scanning them into Photoshop (7/CS) and
>> > resizing
>>> > > them to a width of 600 pixels which works well on
>> > my
>>> > > blog, then "Save for Web". Anyone have a better 2
>>> > > cents worth?
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