Wednesday

Today I continued experimenting with different scan settings in order to capture the entire image on the slide. There's really not many settings I can manually control and it wouldn't scan without the black frames holding the slides. I tried looking up the problem online as well and I couldn't find any answers. I did try decreasing the resolution to 1200, 600, and 300. 600 seemed to capture the most of the image without compromising quality that much but I can continue to search for ways to scan them at 2400. Since I had quite a bit of downtime while the machine was scanning, I started back on finishing up the 1941 Wallulah, which I hope to finish soon.

Sandgren Slide Difficulties

I realized I forgot to write a blog post about my shift this afternoon. I began scanning the Nelson Sandgren slides, however I'm having the same trouble I did at the beginning of the year where the scanner doesn't recognize the shape or location of the slide and the image comes out wrong. I was able to fill out some information on the spreadsheet but I'm going to have to redo the thirty slides I tried scanning today. I'll look back through old blog posts to figure out what I did to make it work correctly. I think I might have had to scan fewer at a time and place them in a certain position in order to get the scanner to cooperate.

Friday Before Spring Break

Today I finished Folder 6 in the Norma Paulus collection and started scanning and editing the photos in Folder 7. I noticed there was no photo "NP143" in Folder 7. I'm not sure if it's misplaced or if there was a mistake in numbering but I may find it as I continue scanning photos in Folder 7 since there are quite a few.

I won't be here over spring break so I'll resume working on Folder 7 when I get back on Monday, March 28.

Progress on Paulus Photographs

Today I completely finished Folder 5 and scanned all the images for Folder 6. There weren't many photos in Folder 6 so I'll finish editing those Friday and start on to Folder 7.

Finishing Folder 4

I finished scanning all the Paulus photos from Folder 4 today, however I still have a couple more images to edit before it's complete. I'll definitely be able to finish on Monday and hopefully make significant progress on Folder 5.

There was a photo that was between NP092 and NP094 that was label "NP063" rather than NP093, however I had already scanned an NP063 from Folder 3 so I think this is a mistake. I named the file NP093 just for clarity but should the number be changed on the actual photograph as well?

Paulus Photos Update

Today I finished the Bush House Art Museum scanning request and the specific photos from the Paulus collection chosen by Mary. The Paulus photos are in their respective folders within "Loose Photos" in JPEG and TIFF format. The image not from the photo folders is just placed by itself in "Loose Photos."

I also finished Folder 3 and will move on to Folder 4 on Friday. There were a couple images that had captions or were in a postcard-like format so I made two versions: one with the extra material and one that was just the photograph. If one of these versions is unnecessary though, I can delete it on Friday.

Monday

Today I continued to digitize on the Paulus photographs and completed both the first and second folder. I am about midway through the third folder and plan to continue on Wednesday.

Paulus and Photoshop Problems

After finishing a quick scan for Mary, I started digitizing the Norma Paulus photograph collection. I was able to scan all of Folder 1 "Political" however Adobe Photoshop has been uncharacteristically slow so I wasn't able to finish editing all of the photos. Photoshop keeps "not responding" every time I open a new image file which is really frustrating and, unfortunately, slows down the process significantly.

*Also, I have been naming the image files after the photographs ("NP001, NP002, ...") which don't restart and continue over from folder to folder. If this isn't suitable though, I can easily change the file names.