Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help

["Tom Scales" <tscales@attglobal.net>]

I happened to do Soccer, but with the same goal in mind.

First, get Vuescan (www.hamrick.com).  Best $40 you'll ever spend.  If you
get the white and black points right, and scan at 1/7, (it's in downsample
somewhere in Vuescan -- I think you just put in 7. You might try 8 or 9
too), you get webready images.  Put them all in a directory as JPEGs, about
75% quality.

Second, get a second carrier (slide or neg, whichever you use).  It doubles
your scanning efficiency to be loading one while one is scanning. Under $20.

Third, create another directory with the same name, but add -Webpage. It
cannot be a subdirectory. Use Photoshop to build a quick webpage.
File->Automate->Web Photo Gallery. Your picture directory as source and
your -Webpage as the destination.

It will create a file called Index.Htm in the destination directory. At the
hockey rink, open IE (or Netscape) and open that file.

That's it.

You can do the same thing with Polacolor, I just find Vuescan easier.

Tom


----- Original Message -----
From: <GNUNEMAKER@aol.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:12 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help


> Fairly new with a film scanner.  Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor
and
> Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later.
>
> Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 & 300/2.8) for
our
> team.  Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for
parents
> to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at
higher
> resolution and correct.
>
> What is the quickest method to accomplish this?  In addition, we manage
the
> kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down
to
> web-ready image.
>
> Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method.
> Any and all suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!