Scanning Slides

Liz Ginzberg, like many instructors, has many 35mm slides that are used during classroom lectures. She was interested in scanning her slide collection and making Powerpoint presentations for classroom and community presentations.

Come by to see our new Nikon Cool Scan can make your slides look good! For your starting point, use these slide scanner process and settings:

1. Create a folder for your work in My Documents > Faculty Files
2. Dust off your slide with canned air
3. Place all slides horizontally in scanner's bulk tray
   
4. Use the Nikon Scanner software
5. Scale to ____ %
6. Review in Adobe Photoshop
7. Save As - TIFF for long term archive (files will be very large - MB = megabytes)
   
8. Batch process for smaller file sizes

Plan on scanning four slides from start through final Powerpoint placement. It would be best to test seeing your scanned photographs projected in a classroom if you have time. Better now while you can adjust your scanning process steps!