How to scan different size photographs to show same size.

[BML]

I have an Epson GT 15000 scanner. I also have several thousand
photographs I would like to digitalise but I�m already in trouble
because I can�t work out how to get the photographs to show all the same
size when they are viewed on the TV.
By that I mean that when I scan the different size photographs from 2.5
X 3.5 inches to 4 X 6 they appear in different sizes when I open the
folder they are in.
I�m not sure what effect that will have if I ever get to the building a
slide show stage.
I know that I will need to burn the results to a CD or DVD because want
to view the photographs through a DVD/CD player on a TV.
Actually, I�m don�t even know if it is a DVD or CD that I should use to
put the slide show on.
I think that the Epson GT 15000 is up to what I want to do but would
anyone care to comment on its software and if that is up to what I want
to do.
If it is not should I be looking at different software?

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:35:40 -0600, BML <BML.5...@no.email.invalid>
wrote:

There's several ways to approach what you want to do, and I'm sure you
will hear opinions that differ from mine, but in my opinion, you're
approaching the problem wrong.

First, you need to need to separate your overall projcet into two
steps.... the first would be scanning the photos, the second would be
prepating the pohtos for a slide show.

The Epson is probably great for the first part, but you need some
additional software for the second.

For the first part, scan your photos at a setting of about 300 ppi
(pixels per inch). This is really all the resolution there is in a
printed photo, no matter what the size of the photo is. If the
scanning software you have allows you to make color
corrections/adjustments while or immediately after scanning, use that
to get the "best" looking scans that you can get.


Scan the phtots to TIF files to retain as much quality as possible. If
your software desn't allow that, use the highest quality setting on
JPG that you can.

For the second part, decide what resolution you want to use in your
slide show. For HD video, that would be 1080 pixels in the vertical
direction. Keep that number in mind!

Now you need that additional software, sonething like Adobe Photoshop
is what you need, but you don't need the full or professional version.
A simplified version is available, but any "picture editing" software
should suffice.


To display on the HD screen, the vertical "size" of the image needs to
be 1080 pixels. If you scanned a 4 x 6 photo (6 inches in the
vertical) it will be 6x300=1800 pixels high, so it's too large to
display properly. You now have two choices, crop or shrink. In
cropping you remove enough from either the top or the bottom to make
the image 1080 pixels high, in shrinking, you "shrink" the entire
image to make it 1080 pixels high.

After adjusting the size you can also make other adjustments in the
editing software, like color correction, brightness adjustmant, etc.
and the save the final image. For the final image, I'd recommend using
JPG file type at a moderate quality setting to save space on your
recording medium (TIF fils sizes are too large for that use).