Dear Elizabeth Rodier <cerear@telusplanet.net>, Thanks for your prompt reply. I like your suggestion to: "Plan *organized* sets of images on CD-Recordables stored in multiple locations" for different groups of people. I also like your idea to "...make multiple scans of the same picture to keep heads from groups, head and shoulders of a couple and full picture to show group, clothing, background. Loose pictures are kept in archival sheet protectors along with FTM group sheet printouts with notes + scrapbooks." Thanks again, KAY =============================================== > Keating, > Started collecting family pictures in March 1996 with the beta of 32 bit PSP > 4. Early heads for FTM charts are still in use, ovals saved at 240 pixels > high though later images are often 480 pixels and best quality JPG. I don't > normally use TIF except for clip art for occupations and medical, or some > source documents. > > One copy of an image is not enough. Plan *organized* sets of images on > CD-Recordables stored in multiple locations. Plan images so that the right > ones for each branch can be copied without sending the whole set to a cousin > who just wants the ones for common relatives. Zip media is too expensive, > too slow and becoming rare compared to CD-Recordables under $1 each that can > be used on almost any computer with a CD player. > > Use PSP or *uncompressed* TIF for editing, not BMP. Make multiple scans of > the same picture to keep heads from groups, head and shoulders of a couple > and full picture to show group, clothing, background. Album pictures glued > in must be identified some way and referenced. Loose pictures are kept in > archival sheet protectors along with FTM group sheet printouts with notes + > scrapbooks. > > Haven't used histogram in PSP. Husband uses some different options than I > do. Clarify is a favorite except when it shows an older person's wrinkles > too clearly. > > Scanner(s) all have better results than camera copies. Some relatives have > sent me color photocopies that scanned fairly well with magazine setting in > PSP. I have a portable snapshot scanner (new) with lift-off lid. Another > scanner can handle large negatives and microfilm. Printed one sample from a > 61 mb file but 777 kb version printed 10 inches wide looks nearly as good. > Original was a double page pedigree 11 inches high, 17 inches wide hand > lettered. > Elizabeth --- Kay Keating's outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/2001