How I created the photopages
pages (for the interested)
1. First, I used
a Scanner
to scan the original photos and save them to Bmp format at (300pix) resolution.
(Keep saved photos in a folder called "Photos").
2. Next, I used
Paint
Shop Pro
to modify, crop, and clean up each image. I left them to whatever size
they were scanned at. Then, I resaved them as Bmp files overwriting the
old ones.
3. I imported
each picture to Microsoft
Image Composer re-sizing and arranging them to suit the particular
page. I added photo names, shadowing, and special effects. Then in another
folder called "Photopages", I saved each page in Composers MIC format for
future modification, and then saved again as a Bmp. (This folder will eventually
contain the photo pages in MIC, BMP, and JPEG formats).
5. Import each
Composer BMP page back to Paint Shop Pro, and resize the compiled pages
by 40%. Save them twice, with two different filenames. once, as a JPEG.
(Keeping the standard 10% JPEG compression) named PHOTO1-A and again as
PHOTO1-B using 50% JPEG compression. Put these in the same "Photopages"
folder. (The A is for future use in case I want to allow users to download
a higher res pic, and the B is for the low res pic that comes up when the
page is first loaded.)
6. The history
page was partly made from "Family Tree Maker". The tree was printed out
on a laserJet, taped together, and then scanned at 300 dpi color. This
scanned image (full size) was then imported into Paint Shop Pro, rotated,
cropped, resized by 40% and resaved as a jpeg in that order. The file size
came down to 137kb from 11meg. I wish there was a better way, but I haven't
been able to figure that out yet.
7. Lastly, I
imported each page into it's own HTML web page, added a 5 width border,
reduced the page image size slightly so it looks good on 800X600 res, and
linked each to the home page.
8. The fonts
used included Times New Roman, Brush Script MT, and Arial
I created the wedding pages
a little differently......
1. Again, I used
a Scanner
to scan the original photos and save them to Bmp format at (300pix) resolution.
2. Next, I used
PhotoShop
5.5 to modify,
crop, and clean up each image. I left them to whatever size they were scanned
at. Then, I resaved them as Bmp files overwriting the old ones.
3. I adjusted
each image as follows:
For horizontal
images, I adjusted each image to Width 519 pixels, and let the Height float.
(Keep
constrain
on).
For the
vertical images, I adjusted each image to Width 375, letting the height
float.
4. Save each
photo as a JPEG with compression of 8.
5. I opened each
JPEG into a program called Web
Thumnailer which made a thumbnail of each.
6. The wedding
"Flip" photos and the "Snowy" one were done with a program from "Anfy Team".
There is a link
to them on my links page.