Alan Day Posted October 3 Posted October 3 I have received a large number of Photos donated by Karen and Ian Harvey and I am going to try and post them up for you here. When I have finished I will send them to ICA where they will be held in the Library. There are some amazing pictures which I hope you will enjoy. What I would like in return is the names of anyone you recognise, otherwise they will be forgotten. The pictures are scanned . This first batch of three will be a try out. Files too large will try to reduce them watch this space.
Alan Day Posted October 4 Author Posted October 4 file:///C:/Users/User/Desktop/Scan_20251003%20(2).pdf
Peter Laban Posted October 4 Posted October 4 Alan, that's thelocation on your computer. You willlneed to get the images in jpg format, scale them down to say 750 pixels on the long side place them online at an image hosting site and link them from there into your posts for this to work.
Alan Day Posted October 4 Author Posted October 4 54 minutes ago, Peter Laban said: Alan, that's thelocation on your computer. You willlneed to get the images in jpg format, scale them down to say 750 pixels on the long side place them online at an image hosting site and link them from there into your posts for this to work. Not sure how to do this at the moment .They are in Jpg format. I have tried reducing them in size with no success . There are about thirty photos in total. I am over the first hurdle getting my scanner to work. Thanks Al
Pianist Posted October 4 Posted October 4 Try something like irfanview - https://www.irfanview.com/ - to reduce them. Lovely littlwe program, once you've got it installed, click on the first image in your folder and then on image in te menu bar. The select resize, resample and scale it down. Click on file and then save as and give it a different name, ideally in a different folder. The nice thing is that if you press the space bar, it loads the next image. Repeat until they're all done.
Peter Laban Posted October 4 Posted October 4 I use postimages.org as hosting site for occasional pics I post on forums. They have a resize function built in, AFAIK. I assume other (free) hosting sites have that option as well.
JimR Posted October 4 Posted October 4 (edited) I know I'm not a regular poster, but you can send the jpgs to me. I can re-size and post them for you. PM me if interested and I'll PM you my email address. Edited October 4 by JimR clarity
Alan Day Posted October 4 Author Posted October 4 I have another problem which is my scanner is now copying darker than the photo. I have mastered the art of changing photos from my camera as a set of tools comes up ,cropping, making images darker or lighter etc but on a scanned image I am getting no tools at all. It looks like a job for my Son . Thanks for all your suggestions very much appreciated. These pictures are too good for me to give up on them so we will eventually get there. Al
RAc Posted October 4 Posted October 4 just my 0.02: - vintage photographies are typically not very hi resolution to begin with. - if you scan them to jpg, you already lose quality because jpg is by definition a compressing format. - resizing that further cuts down on the quality. So if your scanner supports that, keep as high a resolution and fidelity as possible (eg scan to bmp, not jpg). Also, instead of copying them verbatim to the forum, you may want to consider third party hosting so you do not need to resize in the first place. Or maybe the forum admins can bump your upload quota in this exceptional case? 1
Peter Laban Posted October 5 Posted October 5 7 hours ago, RAc said: just my 0.02: - vintage photographies are typically not very hi resolution to begin with. - if you scan them to jpg, you already lose quality because jpg is by definition a compressing format. - resizing that further cuts down on the quality. I am not sure I agree with that. It depends a bit on the vintage but images shot on 2 1/4 square and upward, which were bot uncommon formats, are not short of detail. A high res jpg is fine for online use although for archival purposes yoy will want tiff (does anyone still ise bmp?).
RAc Posted October 5 Posted October 5 Good morning Peter, I hope not to become to nerdy or knit picking here, but from my understanding, an image being stored in Tiff format is not necessarily uncompressed or high resolution. Tiff is rather generic; it allows an embedded image to be stored uncompressed (default) or compressed by one of many compression algorithms. It is even possible for a Tiff file to contain multiple instances of the same image in different resolutions. Thus, the safest bet for a picture scan appears to be a raw bit map (bmp), of course always assuming that the scanner uses the highest possible resolution while generating the bitmap. When saving to Tiff, many scanning software suits have hidden configuration dialog options that let you choose the compression; for those not willing to work themselves through those dialogs, the result depends on the defaults used by the scanning software. I do not know how widespread support for bmp files is, but the very popular irfanview utility mentioned earlier does not only read but also convert to bmp (https://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm); also, all OS built-in image processing utilities such as paint are able to use it. 1
Peter Laban Posted October 5 Posted October 5 Yes, that was a bit nerdy. I did say tiff was for archival purposes, based on own work with ITMA. They want images for their collection submitted as 300 dpi tiff. I assume they have given the matter thorough consideration, so I don't have to.
aeolina Posted October 5 Posted October 5 TIFF/TIF is the accepted standard format for archival purposes. Web friendly JPGs can be made and easily shared from the TIFF master.
Peter Laban Posted October 5 Posted October 5 1 hour ago, aeolina said: TIFF/TIF is the accepted standard format for archival purposes. Web friendly JPGs can be made and easily shared from the TIFF master. That's pretty much what I thought.
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted October 5 Posted October 5 As someone who does loads of image scanning ( artwork) and photo enhancement, I scan to BITMAP to first create a master copy. These are initially huge files, but good to make jpeg copies from thereafter.(at more compressed size). Also choose a setting for photos in a scanner is best, and if you want advanced scanning choices are even better. (Some scanners can reduce glare from physical photo surface) for example. But that photo put here already,( by Alan) looks good as it is🌝
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