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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (30434)	5/19/2005 8:04:49 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) of 116555

**OT** You must have some backlog in that maibox! Here is the service I used, but there are others that use the same print house. mypublisher.com I just got a special coupon advertising 2 for the price of one so I'm going to do a few more books. This service is available to anyone and there is no reason why you couldn't do it from slides, you would just have to have the slides scanned into a format they can use. It's easier for me to prepare the files simply because this is what I do for a living, but an amateur can do a very decent job as well using their software. The important thing is getting the pictures the correct color and within the gamut of CMYK (the RGB color space that a monitor uses can produce 43 thousand more colors than a four color press can). Some of the newer DVI LCD monitors are so good that they need little in the way of color calibration and can be used right out of the box. I know because I have a few pissed off clients that tell me the calibration I did for them didn't result in much of a difference. The older CRTs and VGA LCD monitors can be wildly different from an acceptable color standard and get worse as they age. The services ask for sRGB jpegs with at least 150 dpi at 100% of the size you will use them. There are many services you could use to convert your slides, the important thing is to have them scanned into the correct color space and cleaned up. I frequently send my color neg film to a lab that does fairly high res scans at the point when I get the film processed and it's cheap (about a buck per image) and the quality is pretty good considering it is done by a machine. There is less dirt to worry about since the film is brand new and the scans are conveniently written to a CD disk so I don't need to make contact sheets or proof prints to look at my work. I also have a little slide scanner that does a reasonable job on slides. After using a high quality digital camera for a while, I never want to go back to shooting film. Cleaning up scans, especially on old film, is a time consuming boring task. I groan every time I have to do it and I'm well paid to do it.

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