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Scanning options for slides and pictures

Last update: 20 June 2006. G. Buck

There are several options for transferring slides and other images into an electronic format.  This usually involves the use of a scanner.  There are facilities on campus that will help you scan your images.  No matter which service you choose we suggest saving research images in two formats  --  a high quality bitmapped image format (such as TIFF) for reference, and a lower resolution JPEG for display.

Instructional Computing Services

Located in Coe 307I, we have two options available for faculty use:

• A dedicated slide scanner used in conjunction with an Apple G4 and Photoshop for image manipulation and saving.  It can only process one slide at a time, however, and each slide must be loaded into the scanner by hand. 

• A flatbed scanner with a eight slide tray that can be used to scan slides en masse.  Each slide must then be cropped out of the scanned image individually, or we can help you set up a macro to do it automatically.

Others

• Communications and Journalism have a slide reader located in one of their computer labs, Ross 423 (SE corner).

• UW Photo Services is available at 766-3257, their staff are very knowledgeable.

• Most photo studios and Kinkos can scan and manipulate images and save them to a CD-ROM.  The price seems variable depending on the studio.

• Some digital cameras can be equipped with a slide attachment for capturing digital images of slides.