Slide Scanning for Powerpoint Lectures
Carol Minter, Dental Hygiene, took time this summer to scan the slides she's been using for years. The New Media Lab is a quiet place where she can concentrate and work. Carol was very productive in just two days of scanning using the Nikon Slide Scanner. Yes, there are more slides to scan but the remodeling and moving the New Media Lab interrupted her efforts.
Carol created folders for each lecture and named each slide relating the picture to specific lecture topics. Our plan was to scan the images at high resolution, saved as TIFF files at about 55MB each. Later we will use Adobe Photoshop to create contact sheets for each folder and then to reduce each file size for placement in Microsoft Powerpoint.
The Contact Sheets will have the filename and are placed 5 across and 5 down the sheet. Some folders have more than one sheet of images. At this stage we could burn the folders of images and the contact sheets to a DVD for longterm storage.
There is an intermediate step before using the automated resize process - move the vertical files into new folders. In changing the size of the images to best fit a presentation slide will have an ideal dimension for landscape images and a shorter dimension for portrait images.
Why scan at the large file size? Well these slides are old and there is a color shift on the photographs. So if color correction will be done, it will be best to work with a high resolution scan then reduce for presentation.
Carol created folders for each lecture and named each slide relating the picture to specific lecture topics. Our plan was to scan the images at high resolution, saved as TIFF files at about 55MB each. Later we will use Adobe Photoshop to create contact sheets for each folder and then to reduce each file size for placement in Microsoft Powerpoint.
The Contact Sheets will have the filename and are placed 5 across and 5 down the sheet. Some folders have more than one sheet of images. At this stage we could burn the folders of images and the contact sheets to a DVD for longterm storage.
There is an intermediate step before using the automated resize process - move the vertical files into new folders. In changing the size of the images to best fit a presentation slide will have an ideal dimension for landscape images and a shorter dimension for portrait images.
Why scan at the large file size? Well these slides are old and there is a color shift on the photographs. So if color correction will be done, it will be best to work with a high resolution scan then reduce for presentation.
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