AKA TonyMike who has contributed the suggestion for this page about scanning and photo tips....Hopefully he will also send in some pics Then and Now would be nice.

Tony’s Tips!

The following is a compilation of photo and scanning tips for printing and sending and or uploading photos.. There are links included to more informative sites. Take your time and read and print out for future use, book mark the links. Any questions? Each scanner may have unique settings so always review your help file on your computer or contact the manufacturer. More questions? Ask and I’ll try and answer in a timely manner.
Photo Upload tips..
adding a Photo to
Don Bova and Glenn Bradsher's Yahoo Waterford Alumni
and other Scanning tips from MRDolliver WKHS 1963  and Tony Robiadek WTHS 1970

Adding a photo
Adding a photo is an easy three-step process. The process of moving a photo from your computer to your club is called "uploading." To upload your photo, follow these steps:

Click on the "Add Photo" link, either on the list of Photo Albums, or from within a specific album which has room for more pictures.
Upload your photo by clicking on the "Browse" button. Locate your picture on your computer's hard drive, select it, and click on the "Open" button. If you can't find it, make sure you are not limiting the types of files shown. (To point to a photo already on the web, click on the "Or point to a photo on the web" link.)
Give your photo a name and a brief description, then click on "Upload Photo." Once you click on the button, there may be a delay or lag time while your picture is being sent to us, depending on the size of your photo and the speed of your Internet connection. (If you're linking to a photo instead, you'll see "Add Photo Link.")
Note for Mac users: If you use a Macintosh computer, be sure to add a file extension to the name of your photo before you click on "Add Photo." If your picture is a JPEG, add .jpg to the end of the name (e.g. a JPEG photo named "cowbell" would be renamed "cowbell.jpg"). If your picture is a GIF, add .gif to the end of the name.

Viewing Photos
To view photos, simply click on an album name. This brings up a list of all the photos in that album. You can also click on the "View Thumbnails" link to view a thumbnail list of photos -- small versions of every photo that's been uploaded to the album.

Previewing Photos
If you want to check out what your photo looks like before you actually upload it to the club, click on the "Preview" button at the bottom of the "Add Photo" page. From there, you'll be able to view your photo, resize your photo, or cancel the upload.

Resizing Photos
Resizing photos is a great way to conserve disk space for your club's albums as you add new photos. By reducing the size of each photo, more members will be able to contribute photos to the album, your albums will become more manageable, and your images will load faster. (Note: At this time, you can only reduce the size of your own photo.)

Resize your photo on the "Add Photo" page. At the bottom, click on "Preview" and then select the size: large, medium, or small. You can also select "Don't Resize" and your photo's original dimensions will be preserved.

Some notes about resizing:

Your photo cannot be enlarged.
If you're confident about sizing your photo, you don't have to preview your photo in order to reduce the size. Simply select the size from the "Add Photo" page, and click "Upload."
If you resize your photo, its proportions will be preserved. If you select large, your photo's largest dimension (either width or height) will be reduced to 640 pixels. The other dimension will be reduced by the same proportion. If you select medium, the largest dimension will be reduced to 480 pixels. If you select small, the largest dimension will be reduced to 360 pixels.
Resizing your photo only affects the photo you've uploaded to the club, not the original on your computer's hard drive.
Once you've uploaded your photo, the only way to resize it is to delete it, and upload it again.
Resizing is a great way to conserve space, add consistency to the appearance of the photos in your club albums, and enhance the viewing experience for all club members.

Other tips!
Note: Many folks make the mistake of thinking that the resolution of a scanner and the resolution of a printer are the same thing. This is not true. If you have a printer that is capable of 600 DPI (Dots per Inch) printing, you do NOT need to scan at 600 PPI (Pixels per Inch) with your scanner to get the most out of your print. DPI is actually a much finer measurement than PPI and one pixel can contain many dots.

For this reason there is a pretty good rule of thumb for amateur home scanning. That is "Scan at a resolution of 200." Pretty much anything your doing, whether it is Photographs or text or line art will turn out best at 200 PPI then printed at your printers max resolution. Scan at a resolution of 100 for uploading to the Internet.

Size/Scaling determines the size of the scan. Sometimes this is a percentage measurement, sometimes it is in inches or centimeters. This is purely a matter of preference. Set these sizes to whatever settings you want.

How do I send an image with E-mail? 

A.   Not a scanning question, but still a very common question.  With most E-mail software, it is very easy to do. There are various SEND menus for E-mail in some scanning software, but this is the hard way to do it. For one thing, it seems much better to prepare the file first, so you can view it and review it. These buttons do not work with all E-mail programs. AOL is a special problem because AOL uses its own proprietary E-mail system, not the same as internet.

But this is totally unimportant, because it will always be greatly easier to simply attach images to E-mail in the conventional way instead, described here.

First, just scan the image normally, and create a normal image file from it. The file should be fairly small, or it can be dreadfully slow both to send and receive. 100 dpi sounds about right for scanning a photo, which will create an image size of 600x400 pixels from a 6x4 inch snapshot (15x10 cm). If the recipient will view the image on their 640x480 or 800x600 pixel screen, then the image should not be larger than their screen.

Save a copy of the image as a JPG file, because JPG is very small and kind to modems (often about 1/10 the size of other image file formats, however there is a price in image quality for this size reduction, see about JPG). The E-mail UUE or MIME encoding causes the number of bytes actually sent to be about 40% larger than the indicated file size, and the modems will see this larger size. FTP or web site images are therefore 40% faster than E-mail images. Anyway, the smaller JPG files are much faster to send and receive than other types. If it is not a JPG file, then at least use WinZIP or PKZIP to compress the files and send the ZIP file. This also allows multiple files to be kept tidy in one file. However, some E-mail servers will limit the maximum file size, perhaps to 2 megabytes.

If you incorrectly insert the image file into the body of the message as text, you just get random gibberish characters, a little like hieroglyphics. You cannot put binary files "into" text messages.

The standard way you send an image with E-mail is to "Attach" the image file to the E-mail text message. The E-mail programs will have a menu item ATTACH, and the toolbar normally shows a paperclip symbol to denote "Attach" a file.

The AOL program's Write Mail option (the E-mail message composition window) has an "Attachment" button at the lower left corner, under the body of the text of the message, and will allow multiple files to be selected and attached. Multiple files will be zipped into one file and sent as one file.

Eudora and Netscape have paperclip toolbar buttons for Attach, and they also have a text menu "Attach file".

Outlook Express additionally has the big ATTACH toolbar button with the papeclip icon(in the E-mail message composition window) for this purpose. Microsoft programs usually instead call this attach menu
"INCLUDE - FILE".

Compose your text message normally, and while you are composing the E-mail message text (while you have it open), also select the ATTACH menu or button. That will then allow you to locate and select the file(s) to be attached. The file will be "attached" and sent along with the E-mail text. You can always send this message to yourself (to your own E-mail address) as a way to test your procedure.
My personal tips:
If you are scanning an image to view on the web, select a resolution of 72 to 96 dpi, when scanning.
If you are sending the image by e-mail, select a resolution of 96 to 150 dpi.
If you are going to print your scanned image, you need to scan at a higher resolution, such as 300 dpi for photograph or magazine. 300 to 3200 dpi small photograph to be enlarged. 400 dpi, newspaper (text only), text for OCR, Text with images. Line art, 300 to 3200 dpi. 300 to 3200 dpi for 35mm film (negative) or 35 mm slide (positive).
If you are sending me an image you are scanning, send at 150 dpi, so I can work on it if I need too. Takes a little longer to send via e-mail but gives me better results.

Your internet provider is your best support for E-mail problems, especially if that is where you obtained the E-mail program.
This is a a superb source of information for scanning. http://www.scantips.com
Very informative and user friendly help files and links to your particular scanner.
For a very nice paint program Paint Shop Pro http://www.jasc.com
To make CDROM presentations and other fine programs. A great selection of photo  enhancing plugins and programs. I have them all and use them on a regular basis. Very user friendly and they work. Very economical too! Try http://www.mediachance.com

More tips from TonyMike...
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Another important link to follow from TonyMike
http://www.memorystock.com
http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner


Tony Robiadek aka TonyMike Class of WTHS 1970