Mahombi
Newbie
As a recently deflowered digital virgin, who is barely on nodding terms with Photoshop, I have a problem which I am sure you digital boffins out there, will certainly be able to solve.
I have a number of colour transparencies (35mm to 6x12cm), colour and b/w prints of different sizes. All of which I wish to load onto a CD, to give to someone. Each image needs to display individually and at a reasonable size on screen without the recipient having to play around scrolling up and down. The on screen quality has to be excellent, whilst not being good enough to copy for (surreptitious) printing.
In order to achieve this and bearing in mind, that some of the scanned images will, at a later date, be edited for other purposes, can you folks help me out? I'm assuming that they should be scanned at 300dpi and saved as TIFF files. But:
1. Am I right?
2. Does each image need to be re-sized to get them to display at similar sizes on screen?
3. Should they be sharpened? If so, should this be done during scanning, or when transferring to CD?
4. Should the resolution be reduced to 72dpi for the CD burn?
5. What else do I need to know for this?
A step by step method will be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I have a number of colour transparencies (35mm to 6x12cm), colour and b/w prints of different sizes. All of which I wish to load onto a CD, to give to someone. Each image needs to display individually and at a reasonable size on screen without the recipient having to play around scrolling up and down. The on screen quality has to be excellent, whilst not being good enough to copy for (surreptitious) printing.
In order to achieve this and bearing in mind, that some of the scanned images will, at a later date, be edited for other purposes, can you folks help me out? I'm assuming that they should be scanned at 300dpi and saved as TIFF files. But:
1. Am I right?
2. Does each image need to be re-sized to get them to display at similar sizes on screen?
3. Should they be sharpened? If so, should this be done during scanning, or when transferring to CD?
4. Should the resolution be reduced to 72dpi for the CD burn?
5. What else do I need to know for this?
A step by step method will be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
S
Socke
Guest
1. mostly no
2. depends on the screen show software, better yes
3. yes, after scanning since it is not redoable
4. yes for the screenshow, no for archive
5. a lot
A true step by step method would fill some books so I make a very short one which may not help you at all
First scan to the highest possible resolution, thus avoid rescanning for postprocessing.
Resize and convert to 72dpi 800x600 (or whatever screen resolution your target uses minus space for window frames, menues and so on) medium quality jpeg into a different folder.
Find CD-Burning (this is usualy called CD or DVD authoring, burning is only the last part in the process) software capable of creating autorun cds with a slideshowapplication which does not need to be installed on the target computer.
ACDsee 8 can do most of this, probably other programs as well but I don't know them.
Photoshop webexport is another posibility with an autorun.inf and a small batchfile to open the html slideshow in whatever webbrowser is installed on the target computer.
2. depends on the screen show software, better yes
3. yes, after scanning since it is not redoable
4. yes for the screenshow, no for archive
5. a lot
A true step by step method would fill some books so I make a very short one which may not help you at all
First scan to the highest possible resolution, thus avoid rescanning for postprocessing.
Resize and convert to 72dpi 800x600 (or whatever screen resolution your target uses minus space for window frames, menues and so on) medium quality jpeg into a different folder.
Find CD-Burning (this is usualy called CD or DVD authoring, burning is only the last part in the process) software capable of creating autorun cds with a slideshowapplication which does not need to be installed on the target computer.
ACDsee 8 can do most of this, probably other programs as well but I don't know them.
Photoshop webexport is another posibility with an autorun.inf and a small batchfile to open the html slideshow in whatever webbrowser is installed on the target computer.