Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael, There are a couple of things wrong with the page: 1) Most of the pictures are very unsharp. I have to assume that this happened at some point during the scanning process, but you should correct that--as things stand, you are not presenting your work in a particularly flattering light. I am not talking about the need to buy expensive equipment here; even scanning machine prints with a cheap flatbed scanner you should be able to get reasonably sharp images. 2) When you resize the images for the thumbnails, you have to make sure that their dimensions are 190x126 pixels (I am talking about the filenames beginning with "sm" in Kyle's template). Otherwise, the template will still squeeze the picture into the window but it will look stretched or squished, as in weeks 9, 11, 12 and 13. If necessary, crop the picture so that it fits into those dimensions when you adjust the image size. I assume that you are aware that you should not manipulate the JPEG image. I.e. your workflow should be something like this: - - scan your image - - do whatever corrections are needed in Photoshop or other similar software - - save the file as a Photoshop or TIFF file - - then, size the image to, say, 750x500 pixels and save a JPG file - - to create the thumbnail, pull up the original Photoshop image and size it to 190x126 pixels Hope this helps, if you have any questions, feel free to ask on or off list. Kind regards, Nathan Michael Gerard wrote: > At last, thanks to Kyle Cassidy's template, my wife and her work > scanner, and my favorite model--my daughter--my PAW is up. I put up all > thirteen weeks at one go. This is pretty representative of my learning > curve over the past few months, and I've tried to take one photo from > each week's of work, though you'll find that one or two pictures in > adjoining weeks were shot within a day or so of each other. Feel free to > choose your favorite or least favorite from the first fifteen weeks on > which to comment. My apologies for the scan quality. I look forward to > your feedback. Here's the address: > http://home.earthlink.net/~geeman1066/ > Regards, > Michael Gerard > geeman1066@earthlink.net > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html