| Digitising Photos |
The following are the steps you need to follow to digitise your photos for your web gallery |
1. Create a folder - Images and copy all the images into the folder. If you do not have enough disc space you will need to bring the images off the USB one at a time.
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2. Open Photoshop
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3. Open all the images
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4. Image Resize command and resize all the images to 1280px wide (the height sets automatically to the constrained proportions of the width). Then save the images over the top of the original (large) image, reducing the file size considerably.
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5. The next step is to resize the images again into thumbnails, at 200px wide. Then Save As the original filename with an 's.jpg' ie: imagename1s.jpg. You need both images. But ensure you do not overwrite the 1280px image.
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That's the easy part. The next steps are creating your re-digitised images, using the Photoshop Image Adjustments commands and Filters (not Liquify).
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6. Open your first image and decide what you will do with it.
You can need to make two separate changes to the same original image and save each change as follows:
6.1 Save it as the filename1_1.jpg. (1st change)and the second digitised image of the same original as the filename1_2.jpg (2nd change).
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Then save each image again as a thumbnail original imagename1_1s.jpg (1st change) and the thumbnail as the filename1s_2.jpg (2nd change) and so on for all the images.
- This way you keep the original image and thumbnail image, as well as the re-digitised image.
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7. Do the same for all the images, trying to use as many different filters and image adjustment as you can. But do not use the liquify filter, as it creates too many distortions, especially on people and all the filters used must be used with common sense.
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