April 15

Today I finished editing all of the Nelson Sandgren slides. I'm still in the process of going back through the images and finding more information about each artwork. I've also started back up on the Norma Paulus photos.

Sandgren Slides Tan Box Update

Today I finished editing all of the Nelson Sandgren slides from the tan box, but there are a couple which need to be re-scanned. I know these scans were needed as soon as possible so I'm going to come in tomorrow to finish them up and then on Friday I'll begin working on the slides in the white box.

Friday

Today I continued scanning and editing the Nelson Sandgren slides. I've scanned all the slides from the longer tan box but still need to edit them and start on the white box.

We were also able to see the seventeenth century prayer book/bible that I'll be scanning soon. Thankfully it fit well under the polycarbonate cover on the ATIZ. Since it doesn't need to be completed until late May, we're going to pick a day after graduation in mid-May when I can work for a full day scanning the entire book so it won't need to be kept overnight in the digital kingdom.

Scanning Solution

Today we finally figured out to scan the slides with the Epson scanner (Gregory). We found that by unchecking "Thumbnail," you can choose the areas of the preview image which you'd like to scan. You can create multiple "Marquees" which makes the process a little faster and allows you to scan 15 at once.

During the scanning downtime, I finished the 1941 Wallulah which had been partially complete for a while now.

The images of the slides are taking a little longer to edit in Photoshop since most of the photographs of the paintings are at odd angles. It takes a bit of rotation and maneuvering to figure out the ideal angle which enables me to get rid of the black slide-holder border but retain the photograph.