We offer something that goes beyond the
simple slide shows described on the panel to the left. We imagine
that you want to establish high resolution family photo
archive for posterity and that you also want an enjoyable slide
how.
We begin by scanning your pictures at 800 SPI into a
Master Archive Directory. A photo printer set to print at 300 PPI will
now produce a print of the same size and quality as the
scanned image. This means that you now have an archive copy of your
picture, not just a slide show image, which may be visually
pleasing, but is not archive quality.
This goes well for photographs, but not for 35 mm slides. The "natural" print size for a
35mm slide
is the un-natural 1.33" x .92". We therefore scan
the slides at 1200 SPI. This results in JPEG files of the size you
would get from a 5 Mega Pixel camera. Setting your printer to photo
quality (300 PPI) will give you a 5" x 7" print. Again,
the object is archive quality.
This archival master is the source for two
additional directories. One directory holds the slideshow version
of the scans. These files are resized to fit your monitor, which by
design is limited to 72 - 95 PPI. Extreme "Portrait"
pictures and extreme "Landscape" pictures will be placed on a canvas
with the same aspect ratio as your monitor. Our editor may crop some pictures to
concentrate on the intended subject. Note that the archival master
remains unchanged.
The same files as above are also available
in a third directory unedited and suitable for a thumbnail display
or for emailing. |
