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Thank you for your interest in
sharing your yearbook or photographs with others.
WHAT IS NEEDED?
I need
to either briefly borrow the yearbook(s) OR receive scans of the senior
photo pages and cover of each book. As you can see from the number of
books on the web site, I have received and returned
a great
many yearbooks without a single problem. The alternative to sending your
yearbook is to provide scans of the needed pages and cover.
IF you
plan to LEND your yearbook, my address is:
Donald R.
Varner
868 Cottonwood
Drive
Severna Park,
MD 21146
NOTE – I usually keep a yearbook for “about” a
week . I will pay for return shipment and resend any books in the same way
they were delivered to me
Typically a single yearbook costs about $3-$5 to send (book/media rate)
using the US Mail. A large padded type envelope works well to send one or
two books. More than two should probably be boxed. US Mail is less
costly than either UPS or FEDEX.
IF you elect to SCAN your yearbook, here is what I need:
A
scan of every page of senior photos. Please scan the whole page in order
to keep size consistent and include all names. If the originals are in
color, scan in color, if in black & white scan them as B/W (grayscale)
photos and 150 dpi (dots per inch) is USUALLY adequate (300 dpi is even
better). Please avoid (if possible) scanning at 200 dpi – for some reason
this often causes problems. I also need a color scan of the Cover. If
the book contains a listing of those whose photos are not present, please
include that as well.
I
can use MOST scanner formats however I have found JPEG (*.jpg format) to
be the easiest to work with. If you are unsure of the technique, scan a
page and send it to me as a test.
Please be careful when scanning to keep the pages as flat a possible as
photos on the binding edges of pages often become distorted, cropped, and
discolored.
Each scanned page becomes a file. The total number of files required will
depend upon the size of the graduating class and number of photos per
page.
Once scanned the files can be sent as email attachments or by US mail on a
CD or DVD.
By the way, If your
photos are cluttered with signatures, they can usually be cleaned up. Of
course this will not alter the picture in your yearbook. A typical
example.
If you have any
further questions, just ask. I am eager to add your yearbook to
the Cambria Schools Pages.
Thanks for your help,
Don
Varner
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