Photo Guidelines

The treatment of photographs that have been scanned needs some thought and consistency for them to look good when viewed one after the other. That is not to say many photos will be displayed together necessarily, rather there needs to be some visual continuty that is not distracting to the viewer.

There are many options available to us:

Black and White Photographs:

sepia 'treated' with frame and dropshadow

We are using bg colours and subtle bg images (white with light relief) under the content
- no drop shadow - looks cheesy. We want the images to look tidy, like they havn't merely been scanned and 'plonked' on the page - if you get my meaning?

75dpi (adequate for screen display) BUT scan @ 300dpi - B&W as JPEG, resample to 1000px wide proportionally initially, save into appropriate location with same name as form (place an X at the start of the name to indicate it still requires pre-processing)
jpg @ 10% compression (watch for noticable quality degradation)
thumbnail achieved by scaling large image (which, when clicked upon will spawn a popup window with print, caption and close elements in it) - thumb will be 250px wide (leave height blank for browser to select proportional height - this is an 'ok' decision only because we are serving off CDROM - would have separate thumbs for an web delivery.
sharpen after resample
Final image will be 500px wide by however high it is when resampled proportionally

Colour Photographs

Leave them as full colour - JPG's - capture @ 300dpi, resample later.

Naming Conventions

Photos will be coded to match database entries or particular forms (people, places, events etc.). Ensure the whole name is lowercase, contains NO spaces or punctuation marks. Every photo goes in it's appropriate location (eg. people/img for images associated with a person form). Graphics file name is a derivative of the form code (if more than one image for that for, , append a..b..c etc to uniquely id them