A pictures is said to be worth 1,000 words. They can be used as a tiny
time-machine giving the viewer a peek at a time and place as it existed when
it was taken. The pictures can be sent in any of the following ways:
- Prints. Mail your prints to the postal address:
Freeman Bradford
875 E. Meadow Dr.
Palo Alto, CA 94303-4441
They will be scanned (copied as a digital image) and sent back to
you. Please include a self-addressed return envelope.
- Negatives. If you have negatives, they also can be scanned to
produce a digital image. Once scanned, the negatives will be sent back
to you. Please include a self-addressed return envelope.
- Slides. Send your slides and they will be scanned and then returned
to you. Please include a self-addressed return envelope.
- Digital image. If you have the capability of converting your
pictures to digital format, this is probably the easiest and safest way to
send on your pictures. The image should be at least 10 inches in its
longest dimension with a minimum resolution of 75 dpi. (higher is
better -- the Webmaster will strip off any unused resolution when creating
the image for use on the web site.)
Note: Please don't do any post-processing such as using any of the
"sharpen" tools found in image processing programs. These
tools leave artifacts in the image which cannot be removed. The
Webmaster will do any post-processing required on each image to optimize it for
on-line viewing.
The digital image can be in any format recognized by
Adobe Photoshop -- which includes just about anything. The
Webmaster uses a PC, so if you use a Mac it would help to add an
extension to the picture to define the image type.
For example a
picture file labeled "great shot of some stuff" works with a
Mac. A PC just says "Huh?" For the PC it should
read "great_shot_of_some_stuff.jpg" where the .jpg suffix
tells the PC's software you've sent a picture in the JPEG format. The underlines connecting
the words are to keep the Unix operating system used by the web site's
server happy. Try and stay with letters (a, b, c, etc.) and
numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) when naming your picture. Other
characters (#, /, etc.) may confuse the web site's Unix operating
system. Again, if you have questions or concerns, please send them to
Webmaster@ophsa.org.
- Scanning tips. When scanning an existing
photo, scan each photograph separately. Most scanners will try and
optimize the scanned image for color balance, (if it is a color print)
contrast, and brightness. If you try to scan more than one image
at a time, the scanner has no choice but to try and optimize for all
pictures with the probable result that no picture in the group will come
out with optimal settings. At worst the resulting images may have
to be discarded as unusable, at best they will require a lot of
post-processing by the Webmaster to try and recover a usable image.
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Captions. Please send along captions to be used with each
picture. Include as much detail as you can including the Who, When,
Where, and What categories. If you are not sure of details (it HAS
been over 50 years) feel free to ask for comments and we'll see if another
Outpost Harry Survivor can give your memory a boost.