Re: Scanning old photos for prints & DVD


"Cath" <catherinefrendo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thankyou for your quick reply and information. I may not have made
> myself clear in regards to the DVD slideshow. The images will not be
> coming from the computer as such. Using VideoWave I will be placing
> each scanned image into a storyboard, labeled and add music to, to
> create a DVD movie to be then played on a DVD machine to what in the
> future will possibly to HDTVs. I know for archiving and this project I
> should use the highest possible but when does high become too high in
> regards to the quality you can see vs. the size of the image.
> I have scanned in pictures before using tif. Is tif still the best
> format?
>

Yes, tiff is a good format. However, If you are not going to be opening
and then re-saving the file, the you can use jpg. JPG is problematic when
opening and re-saving because you are uncompressing and then re compressing.
each generation of this will add artifacts. jpg should be fine for your
slide show. tiff is best for printing.

Not familiar with "VideoWave". And also no familiar enough with DVD's to
tell you exactly what size is optimum. Intuition is telling me 800 pixels
wide is gonna be real close, perhaps 1024 for HDTV.

>when does high become too high in
> regards to the quality you can see vs. the size of the image

It all depends on, to what and how large the image will be rendered. When
archiving an image you do not know what will become of it down the road.
Lets say your great great grandkids want to make a poster of an image you
scanned. Well if they only have an 800 pixel image and want to print it at
300 dpi there gonna end up with a poster that is 2.6 inches wide. So, for
archiving, capture as much information as possible. For rendering to your
TV. 800X600 for NTSC and 1024X768 for HDTV, I think...

I would scan large and then goto adobe's website and download Photoshop
elements demo and use it to re size your images for your slide shown. You
might like it enough to buy it. It is affordable and has all the basic
tools you will need for photo editing..


http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/main.html













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