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Re: Making the transition to digital...

2003-01-03 by Wayne J. Cosshall

Dear SH,

All those scanners are good. Like all things it is a tradeoff between cost,
personal workflow preferences, etc.

I actually don't do worksheets. My approach is to batch scan a whole roll of
film to TIFFs, burn to CD and then catalogue the CDs using Canto Cumulus (I
have also used Extensis Portfolio). Software like this lets you do keyword
searches, etc to find images, and can print to paper or html contact sheets.
One hint if you go this route is to use meaningful folder (directory) names
and hierarchies when you are saving the images. These programs will extract
the path information and use that in indexing. It saves a bit of manual
keyword entry.

Cheers,

Wayne
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Wayne J. Cosshall
Editor, Digital Photography & Design magazine
Technical Editor, Capture ­ Commercial Photography magazine
Director of Digital ImageMakers International and Editor of their magazine
www.dimagemaker.com
Director, International Digital Art Awards www.internationaldigitalart.com
Personal art website www.artinyourface.com
wayne@...

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