Photo digitization, again, again
February 21, 2008
Many thanks to Mitch for telling me about the program “Renamer” to solve my last tif to jpg to thumbnail problem!!!
I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve begun an “Archives Procedures Manual or What to do if the Archivist gets hit by a bus.” Here is the page I’m putting in for Reformatting Tiffs. As always, let me know if you see someway I can do it better or more efficiently.
In My Computer:
Tiff’s are saved in a phot_file folder numbered the same as the CD. [\PHOT_FILE_01]
Copy all the files from the folder into the \PhotFile\temp folder
Open ReNamer
drag files from folder in to Renamer
Rule Remove all “G.Phot file “ (skip extension)
Click rename
In Photshop:
Open all of the Tiff files in \PhotFile\temp
File menu/automate/batch/Save as jpeg
File menu/automate/batch/Run action Resize 640
Close all
In My Computer
Copy all jpgs from \Photfile\temp to \Phot file
Open ReNamer [insert “_t” as Suffix (before extension)]
In Photshop:
File menu/automate/batch/Run action Resize 200
Copy thumbnails from \photfile\temp to \photfile
In My Computer:
Delete Tiff’s from \PhotFile\temp
February 21, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I am curious why you choose to change the Tiff into a Jpeg before the resize instead of the other way around? I would imagine (although I don’t have anything to do benchmarks with) that it would be faster to resize and then save as Jpegs. But I don’t suppose there would be that much difference in processing time between the two (depending on the computer) to really be of concern.
February 22, 2008 at 3:25 am
Hi. This ‘Renamer’ program sounds great. Which one do you use?
February 22, 2008 at 11:44 am
In a comment to the blog Mitch steered me to http://www.den4b.com/projects.php
February 22, 2008 at 11:56 am
Seth,
I changed it to jpeg first when we were doing it individually it protected the tiff from stupid mistakes. I just followed the same sequence when I automated it.