Well, I'm finally going to scan & archive the couple thousand family photos I've had packed away all these years.
I don't know exactly how I'll use 'em yet; maybe some interactive family album or something...
Anyway, I figure to scan in 6 to 8 pics at a time, to be edited at a later date, using photoshop.
Any thoughts on the best format to save them in?
File size isn't too critical, I'll burn them onto cd's & then dump them off the hd.
Should be kinda fun. I haven't looked at these photos for years. Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Duhhhhh! How about making a Folder called StevesFamilyPhotos ?
Then when you want to burn them on a C/D...they are all in one place!
Posted by Shane French (Member # 2098) on :
Steve,
try .bmp or .tif if you aren't worried about space.
I would scan them all in individually. It will take a little longer at first, but if you are just trying to archive them, this will be easier in the longrun, I would save them with discriptive names as well.
hope that helps.
-shane
Posted by Steve Nuttle (Member # 2645) on :
Steve, I have literally have hundreds of pics that I have taken with my digital cam or have scanned. For me I like .jpg or .jpeg. Quality is good and they are easy to upload to the web or any photo program. I find they convert easily to other format. I like to use a zip drive to organize my pics in folders. I just got a cd burner but am not that pleased with it as it doesn't allow the flexiblity of the zip. Have fun and enjoy your pics.
Posted by Art Fennell (Member # 2729) on :
Hi Steve Have a look at the new i mac the one with the floating screen, I' ve just ordered one, it's fantanic. Go to www.apple.com/imac/ select " Learn more about this new i mac in this vedio---click vedio, it will then give you 3 options, small, medium, and large. Small for slow processors, large for fast processors, etc. Have a look at the section pertaining to it's i photo program. Here is what you can do to save an incredable amount of time. Put away your scanner, then use your digital camera or someone eleses and take photos of what ever you want and as many as you want, keeping in mind what the final use of these photos may be used for. You then down load all these photos into i photo, i photo will then store all your photos plus make a seperate thumb nail page(s), same as a contact sheet of all your negatives in photography, off all your photos. then you can catologue, title, and sort. That's not all, you can then e-mail that file with all your photos arraged how ever you wish, to apple and they will print you a book of your photos for $29.95 (us), not bad eh . Check it out, hope this helps.
Art
Sorry Steve I missed a point ( format ). If you choose to do it this way as I have mentioned, format is no problem, you can leave the as they come from the camera. If you are going through photoshop jpeg would be find, it's a proven compression. If you search in photo shop there is also a section on adjusting pixcels to lower size that is not to affective to quality. The higher the dpi at this stage will be the better, in years to come you'll be glade you so did.
Cheers !!
[ February 23, 2002, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: Art Fennell ]
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
Hi Steve, I'll pop in my two cents too...that is if you're running windows. PhotoShop's native format is pretty thrifty already, but I know one even better - save as .tiff and when you're all done with a batch, use WinZip to archive them. It will compress RGB tiffs to 1/10th or less of their original size with zero loss of detail like jpeg gives. I just ran a test with a 17 mb tiff file and WinZip compressed it 93% to 1.2mb. Do your own test and see how it compares with PhotoShop's .psd format and other non-lossy formats. It's the best I found so far for archiving high rez bitmaps.
If you're running Mac, there is probably a similar compressing utility.
Posted by Art Fennell (Member # 2729) on :
Hi Steve, Here is a site for you to check for help with your photo request, hope it helps ya. Try
Cheers! Art
Posted by TransLab (Member # 470) on :
If size is not an issue, no question use a .tif format. "TIF files are lossless, and TIF is one of the best possible file formats for the master copies of your scans." "JPG files are most common now, because they produce an extremely small file and are very suitable for Email and web pages, but the smallness virtue comes at the expense of JPG using a lossy compression. JPG is NOT suitable for master copies of images."
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