[TheForge] Photographs (YAK)

[Ralph Sproul]

        Norm,  My take on this is you could try scanning the cover.......or
going digital camera. The lighting will be the important thing with
capturing the cover so it isn't glared or to light or dark with a camera at
close length.
        You'll probably find the right lighting (difused/indirect) and a
good photo editor program like Irfanview that some of the guys mentioned
they downloaded, or the Microsoft photoeditor will also crop, resize
(pixels), and balance brightness and contrast.  Some of these photo editors
have "grey scale" settings to change the picture to black and white from
color.

    Hope this info helps,  It was great to see you again and come home with
four more nice books from Kentucky!

Ralph

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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Photographs (YAK)


> My daughter bought a new digital camera and gave me her old
> Canon Power Shot S30.  I've been thinking that I could use this
> camera to take pictures of the covers of the books that I sell for use
> in a catalog as well as a website.  I'd think the camera could take
> color as well a black and white photos with the necessary
> resolution.
>
> I've been thinking of making a stand to hold the camera over the
> book cover to take the picture and then loading the pictures into my
> computer for use.
>
> I could also scan the covers with a scanner.  Guess what I'm
> interested in finding out is if using a digital camera to take pictures
> of book covers for publication in a printed catalog and on a website
> is a good application.  Thanks for your help and sorry for the
> intrusion.
>
> Norm Larson Books
>
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