Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's true, Martin. I've finally settled on saving a raw scan at highest resolution as a Genuine Fractal. Then I save a cleaned up JPEG for reference, the web, and to make contact sheets. The Genuine Fractals end up being 20 MB in Lossless and 4 MB in Visually Lossless formats. That fills up a CD pretty fast but it still take less room to store than the 300,000+ slides that I have in my hanging files! The hassle comes in when I try to label them all and add keywords for stock submissions! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com At 02:34 PM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote: >Tina Manley jotted down the following: > > > I still keep all my slides on file so if anything happens to the digital, I > > can rescan. > >I find this is part of the problem with digital photography. If you shoot >on film, you don't throw out the film, so now you have both film and CDs to >archive. > >And whereas the negative is the basis for a print, when you scan, do you >only store the raw scan at the highest resolution? Or cleaned up versions? >In different file formats? I routinely store a raw TIFF at 1600dpi (the >equivalent of the negative), a Photoshop (PSD) file format which has been >slightly cleaned up (levels and curves adjusted -- sort of the digital >negative) at 1600dpi, and then perhaps a 700 pixel wide JPEG for quick >preview and web publishing, along with a 200 pixel wide thumbnail. If I do >extensive manipulation of an image, then that gets stored as a PSD file too, >to retain the layers, etc. It adds up. Managing all this stuff becomes a >hassle, pretty quickly. > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard | "I am Pentium of Borg. Division is >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | futile. You will be approximated." >email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Unknown >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------