Glossary
"Fat" Slides
Fat
slides are the slides that are larger than
the normal thickness slides. These slides will
not fit through our automatic slide feeder and
we have to hand feed them. This necessitates our
having to charge a higher than normal fee for
the scanning.
Chapters
Think of your disk as compared to a book.
The book has many pages in it. The pages would
be comparable to your slides. The book has
chapters in it. The chapters would be the same
as "shows" on your disk. The book has a Table of
Contents where each chapter's title is listed.
Your DVD player will show a menu with each
"show" displayed.
We allow 12 "chapters" or "shows" per order. If
you want any more than that, the cost is $1
extra for each extra chapter.
Each Chapter would normally be identified on the
DVD menu with the first image in each Chapter.
We can add a
Text
Frame that will display your choice of words
at the beginning of the "show" and this will
display on the
DVD menu.
| Comparison To Help Understand | |
| Slide Show Disk | Book |
| Slide Scans | Pages |
| "Shows" (Contain slide scans) |
Chapters (Contain pages) |
|
DVD
Menu (Displays first slide in each "show.") |
Table of
Contents (Displays title of each chapter.) |
DPI
Dots Per Inch is a printing term. It is used
when measuring the number of lithographic dots
on film or on printing plates. Standard "dots
per inch" for most normal printing would be 150
dots per inch.
PPI
Pixels Per Inch is digital computer terminology.
Digital images consist of tiny, solid-color
squares called pixels. If you have your image on
your computer monitor screen, you can use a
magnifying glass to enlarge the image so that
you can see the individual pixels. The more
"pixels per inch" the more definition and detail
you will see. Old Photo saves its images at 300
PPI which is more than adequate for print usage,
if needed.
Shows
"Shows" would be another term for "chapters,"
defined above.
Text Added to Pictures
We can add text to your pictures to identify
particular people, places or dates. This is a
one dollar charge but may be more if you want an
excessive amount of text added. It would be good
if you would send us this text in an email or as
an email attachment so that we have the exact
spelling for your text. Sometimes names can be
particularly difficult to get spelling correct.
We can add the text somewhere where it doesn't take away from the picture but is readily viewable.
Text Frames
Text
Frames are inserted at the beginning of a
chapter. This frame will then show up on the
DVD menu as a
menu item. You must divide up your slides so
that each text frame is the beginning of a
chapter. If you have more text frames than
chapters, you must divide up your slides so as
to make more chapters. Send a Text file or email
with your text to assure proper spelling.
Text frames can be an important part of keeping the pictures in proper historical perspective by dating them. Text frames that will appear on the DVD menu should have a minimal amount of words since more words will necessitate the usage of smaller font size and make them less readable on the menu.
