HIUS 401: Creating Historical Editions for the Electronic Media

Scanning Workshop, with Peter J. Kastor

216 Wilson Hall, 12 September 1996, 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Topics to be covered:

I. Concepts

• 1--How a scanner takes pictures and how those pictures appear on the Web
• 2--File formats (tif, gif, jpg)
• 3--Image management (naming conventions, storage options)
• 4--Image dispay (when to use gifs and jpgs, when to use in-line and out-of-line images, etc.)

II. Practicalities (this will take the bulk of the time)

• 1--A quick walk-through of Photoshop
• 2--Using Photoshop to scan an image
• 3--Using Photoshop to manipulate an image
• 4--Saving and uploading images
• 5--Using images in Web documents

This is just a brief list of what will be covered. A more thorough review of items discussed can be added to the Web after the class. Students can use this for their own review.