rice@WILLOW.CRAY.COM (Jonathan Rice) (03/14/91)
Here's a novice question for you: I'd like to take a photograph of some people, and include it in a DTP'ed document. I won't embarrass myself by describing my DTP tools to all of you Interleaf/Framemaker/Ventura gurus; let it suffice to say that once the image is in most any of the popular formats I can cope. What I haven't a clue about is how to go from camera to disk. Do I shoot negative or positive film? If negative, do I work from the neg or from a print? If the photograph is in color, is it better to scan it in color and dither or halftone it on the 'puter, or to scan it as grey? What sort of scanner should I be looking for? So, I'm sitting here with a roll of Ektachrome and a roll of Kodacolor. Somewhere in town one of those little computer stores must be willing to rent me a few minutes of scanner time (on who knows what equipment). What's the next step? Thanks in advance for advice and comments, and apologies if I've overlooked some basic principle like the ability to hook my 35mm camera to the serial port... :o) -- Jonathan C. Rice | Internet: rice@cray.com Cray Research, Inc. | UUCP: uunet!cray!rice 655F Lone Oak Drive | (612) 683 - 5370 Eagan, MN 55121 |
diana@er.Arco.Com (Diana Sparks) (03/16/91)
In article <9103132030.AA21462@willow23.cray.com>, rice@WILLOW.CRAY.COM (Jonathan Rice) writes: > Here's a novice question for you: > > I'd like to take a photograph of some people, and include it in a DTP'ed > document. [stuff deleted] > > What I haven't a clue about is how to go from camera to disk. Do I shoot > negative or positive film? If negative, do I work from the neg or from a > print? If the photograph is in color, is it better to scan it in color and > dither or halftone it on the 'puter, or to scan it as grey? Well, depends on what kind of results you want, and how you are going to have your DTP'ed doc printed. IF you are doing a 'quick- and-dirty' rendition of a newsletter, etc., that you will have offset printed/copied, and don't want to spend much $$, grey- scale would be the way to go. You don't necessarily have to have a black & white photo however. I recently used a color Polaroid (yep, instant photo), scanned it in as grayscale on my Microtek grayscale scanner, edited it in Digital Darkroom, and used it in a publication. It looked just about as good as the 35mm B&W stuff I have scanned. This was just a copied job, however. Color and 3-color separations are a whole different matter, and much too complicated to go into here. If you do want to do color work, your best bet would probably be to find a print shop that does computerized color work and let them do the scanning, separations, etc., for you, and then have them insert the file at print time. > What sort of scanner should I be looking for? There are some DTP services and copy shops that will do scanning for a fee--any 8-bit grayscale scanner would do. Some do a little better job than others; apple's scanners impress me more than the Microtek I've got, but it is perfectly acceptable most of the time. -- $ banner <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>><>>>>>>>>>><<<<< <><> Diana Sparks-->> diana@er.arco.com <><>< <><> "This is very simple: first you access your mainframe... <><> or "on" to the computer illiterate." The Wizard: 'Shoe'. <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>><>>>>>>>>>><<<<< $