>We are about to digitize images of works of art to create a computer
>imagebase for use on Macintosh computers.
General advice:
- buy some extra RAM
- use a Quadra 650, 800, 950 if possible, because they are fast and have
less hardware-compatibility issues than the new AVs.
- if you don't have someone who is good at scanning, a high-res scanner,
and decent software (PhotoShop, e.g.), you'll save time and money by having
someone else do it.
- the Canon digital camera (>$1000) worked well for a friend of mine, but
only if you want screen images, not high-quality print images.
>What about Kodak Photo-CD as an alternative to in-house digitizing?
I used a service bureau recently for just this purpose. They turned 35mm
slides into CD-ROMs. It cost us ninety cents per image, plus a few bucks
for the disks, and they put ~100 images on each CD. We got 5 resolutions of
each image, several of which were higher quality than we could have
produced in-house, given file-size issues and scanning resolutions. Also,
the disks came with thumbnails of each photo, numbered for indexing and
retrieval ease.
If you want to store high-quality digital images on a hard drive, you'll
need a huge one (or more), plus an image database of some kind. Aldus Fetch
and Cumulus are two of the more popular programs. Remember that 24-bit
color images are roughly twice the storage size of 16-bit, which are twice
the storage size of 8-bit images. 24-bit images are resolved at better than
the eye can perceive, 16-bit are good but not as good as the eye, 8-bit is
abysmal.
>I'd also welcome advice about how to deal with copyright issues with
>digital images.
Hire a good lawyer experienced in copyright law, or create all your own
materials.
just my opinions, hope this helps.
Susan
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