In regards to recording on CD:
for your application, todays scanners do a very good job, you can get a
good one for under $200.00. If you want to scan negatives, that would be
another story, I found that only the professional level scanners with
transparency adapters can do a good job, or a film scanner.
for a disc burner program, toast for mac is a good one, easy to use program
to burn CD, it even comes with a photo viewer that can give you thumbnails
of your photos on the CD, for pc's describe is the same company version of
toast. both programs are easy to use.
In storing photos, the standard printing specs. are to have a 300dpi (dots
per inch), tif file. this is a standard that can print well in commercial
publications, of course if you scan at higher resolutions, you will get a
better image, 600 dpi is usuallly the highest you might want to go, only
because many printers do not print at highertr resolutions, so it wouldn't
be worth the effort, unless you plan to archive the photos. Also, the
higher the resolution, the more memory it will take up, and for many
standard computers, a very high image will take some time to open up. a tif
file can be opened by both pc and mac formats, just be careful how you
label  the file, pc's are very particular in how you name a file. If
possible, I would also use a photo editing program to adjust the photos,
crop, etc and save in a particular format. there are a lot of good photo
editing programs out there, I found adobe photoshop one of the best and
they sell a photoshop light that would work well and not cost as much as
the full version.

I hope this is of help to you

At 10:53 PM 3/13/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I have a technology question. I have asked a number of people where I live,
>but I don't seem to be running into any knowledgeable computer people. So
>here goes.
>
>I am working on an education program with some local 4th grade teachers. We
>(the historical society and the teachers) are collaborating on choosing
>artifacts and photographs that will help the teachers cover some specific
>aspects of local history.
>
>One of the teachers suggested that instead of having copies made of the
>photographs, we just scan them and burn them onto a CD. That way the
>teachers could project them, or the kids could choose which ones they want
>to use for the small exhibit they are going to develop using the resources
>we provide and print them out. The teachers will also have them for next
>year and won't have to worry about wear and tear on actual photographs.
>
>So, does anyone have technical recommendations? The images don't have to be
>museum exhibit quality, but they should be reasonable. I know it makes a
>difference what the size of the original image is and what size you decide
>to print it out at, but I'm not sure what that difference means in terms of
>the scanning.
>
>What resolution should we scan at? Do we save them as TIFF files?
>
>I have never even seen a CD burner, so I also don't know whether CDs can be
>formatted to be read by both PCs and Macs. If they can, what is the format
>called?
>
>We will probably not have access to a really high quality scanner, since I
>don't think we will have a lot of money to work with. I'm hoping to find a
>scanner in the school system or the local college that will be adequate (and
>free). What should I look for?
>
>This is a pilot project to see if we should continue to develop more similar
>materials on local history.
>
>Thanks.
>Bobbie Scott
>
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