The Scanning Process
Its not an easy job to take a magazine and scan it while maintaining high quality, and since I'm a whore for quality, I tend to take this seriously. lol
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Scanning I used to scan 300dpi, but realized that I get a better scan with 600dpi. I do not rip pages out of my magazines. To me, that's like, why do that? Why tear up this precious, expensive, book? That's like book murder. It makes me cry. |
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Resizing and Saving The scans originally scan in roughly at 4500x6000 and are about 80mb each, which is way too big. In photoshop I have a batch command that does this for me. It resizes all my scans to 1500px height. Then I manually watermark each scan, run the batch command to save my scans and then another batch to automatically resize them to thumbnail size (200px) Once the scans are saved, I have a batch renaming software that renames all my scans at once. I used to do this manually but I realized batching would save me time and a headache. |
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Thumbnails Thumbnails are manually made. I take each 200px file and move them into a premade thumbnail psd file and save each one manually. This is the longest process, longer than coding. |
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Moving to Directories I have my scans moved to their respected directories. I'm pretty anal about how they're organized because the scan directories is also the same as this website, thus it should match. |
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Coding The final piece to completing the puzzle is actually coding the site. I add the images to the gallery, coding each gallery and updating them. Usually since the scans are about the same in number per artist, I just copy and paste into each gallery changing the artist folder to the next one. Once done I save and upload via FTP to my sever and then annouce to the livejournal community boys_paper that I have a new set up scans added to the gallery. Sometimes I don't. |
Final Notes: Scanning concert pamphlets are extremely hard and time consumming. Since they're generally larger than the scanner and more delicate. I tend to end up breaking the spine on my pamphlets. ~_~ dai dassou's monthly bills: |
