-----Original Message----- From: Aubrey Cloud <AGCLOUD@email.msn.com> To: Epanske@aol.com <Epanske@aol.com> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Saving Old Photos >Hi > >I use a camera stand with the camera mounted on the height adjustable >rod. > >With a high quality camera w/special lenses in order to get real >close-ups, I manually focus the picture and take the picture. > >The camera stand base is flat black to prevent reflections. I got a 12" by >12" by 18 guage flat piece of galvanized iron and spray painted it >flat black. It is placed on the stand base. > >I use magnets [non-light eflective] to hold down the corners and sides of not flat pictures. > >I take the pictures outside on a sunny day. This avoids having to buy >special lighting for indoors. > >I take the exposed film [100 speed] to Wal-Mart and they send it to >their processor in Bentonville, Arkansas. They can put up to 100 >photos on one CD in 5 resolutions. You get the photos on Cd, the >negatives and a thumbnail of the pictures on the CD. > >I use Picture Publisher 5.0 to bring the pictures from the CD-ROM >drive onto the monitor where I can do a host of things to the picture, >such as cropping, change contrast, brightness, color enhancements, >repair tears, cracks, take off blemishes, stains and so forth. I save >the image to a file on the hard drive. > >You can print the pictures out onto glossy Kodak photo paper. Ordinary >paper is not suitable. > >If you have a scanner, you can scan the photos in and save them to a >file and later with Read/Write Cd Rom drive, write them to a CD. This >is very slow. > >I do not recommend using a Digital Camera. The quality is not as good >as the above methods. I guess it depends on the resolution you want. On a 3 1\2" floppy there is only 1.44megs, so the resolution is extremely limited. > >With the pictures in a file, I use Corel WordPerfect 8.0 to do the >text and use the graphics utility to import the pictures onto the >pages. Earlier, I had several old pictures reproduced professionally, but at a very high cost. > >Hope this answers your questions. > >Aubrey G. Cloud > >