Slide Scans to Powerpoint

Jennifer Griffin (Art Department) stopped by to checkout the new Nikon slide scanner. She will be scheduling time in the lab for scanning work. Over the last 18 months, Jennifer has become an expert in scanning and I look forward to learning her tricks. Already she has offered to help me fine tune the post scan BATCH processing to (1) create contact sheets of the images and (2) create a two-step process to resize images and change them from TIF to JPG. Then the images can drop right onto presentation slides. "Yes," she says, "I've attended the PhotoShop Scho0l of Hard Knocks and I can save you from some headaches!"

Right away Jennifer made an important suggestion: use the filename to distinguish vertical and horizontal slides. The batch process will change all slides to one length and vertical slides will loose image area. An alternative method is to have an additional folder for vertical images.