TOW - Digital Photography of Plants and subsequent manipulationof images for printing, the web etc.

TOW - Digital Photography of Plants and subsequent manipulationof images for printing, the web etc.
Lauw de Jager (Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:12:31 PST)

John Lonsdale a *crit :

I now use a digital camera to meet all my photography needs, prints, slides
and web images.

John, how do you produce slides from digital images?

I have two programs which are indispensable - one to manage my image
database, and one to
manipulate the images into their final form. The former is called
ThumbsPlus

One of the prime uses I make of it is to batch rename all my
images - saves typing these in for every one. This program also has a
preview feature - you can look at large previews of each file instantly by
clicking on the thumbnail.

After naming, some manipulation is always going to be necessary to get the
finished product and for this I use Adobe Photoshop.

John,
Many thanks for leading this particular interesting discussion. So far it
becoming quite clear to me. As I understand the two progams Thumbsplus and
Photoshop are intended to receive, name and manupilate the images.
However, I would like some help with how to store, manage the various images.
First I thought to stock them in my current database which manages the species
for the nursery. But that make makes too whealdy to work with. Would it be
possible to use a separate database such as File maker of the Microsoft Acces
for storing and organising the images ( each image accompanied with
information such as name, date, place taken or origin and the use made of it
etc).
As all scans and digital images are stored at a high resolution , which
demands high capacity storage. I envisage to purchase a a high capacity hard
disc inwhich to unload all images photo CD and photo files in the computer.
Any ideas and help woud be much appreciated

Kind regards

Lauw de Jager
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