slides to .jpgs

best route for a one shot project

[D_Blackwell]

I have a client that wants to add images of some artwork to a new section of the site. She has had these on another site in the past and was not happy with the 'trueness' of the color. I've never had to deal with slides before, and it appears that that is all that will be available to me. What is the best approach to getting .jpgs from them? Can I hire this out? I want to do this once, and then be able to claim the I have gotten the best and truest quality reasonably possible. Once this is done, I'll have to revisit with her, the monitor to monitor differences that must be expected.

[PatomaS]

Hello

:)

Well there are different ways to do that

1. you can write a script that replace the picture shown with another one, this is not so hard to do. Of course you can control it using buttons instead a time control.

2. You can use flash, and make a little movie with thepictures.

Bye

[Mardi_Gras]

>it appears that that is all that will be available to me.

Do you mean all that will be available are the images from the other web site? You can't re-scan the slides?

[limbo]

Take them to a photography specialists that supply prints. Ask them to produce the highest quality prints they can. Scan them at a high resolution and compress with an image editor. there is also hardware you can buy (hire?) that can scan slides and negative originals, and coverts them to JPEG.

She will already know that producing very high quality prints from slides is not possible - slide film does not have have the same depth or quality as photo negative. She should expect to see some flaws/reductions that you may be able to remove and enhance using an image editor.

[Mardi_Gras]

>Ask them to produce the highest quality prints they can. Scan them...

Introducing any intermediate generation - in this case, a print, will only degrade final image quality. If the original slides are availble (and it is not clear from the first post if they are) scan them directly.

>quality prints from slides is not possible - slide film does not have have the same depth or quality as photo negative.

Slide, or transparency film, provides far and away the highest quality image possible. Color negative film is more forgiving of exposure errors, which may have led to your opinion that it supplies higher quality results. For regular prints, negative film is less contrasty, but when the image will be scanned and printed on a printing press or posted on the web, slides can provide the ultimate quality.

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