Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

Hello Katharine, a few thoughts.

Getting your "files/scans" from an old system to a new system is
relatively simple. It really depends on what you own, how much of a
"hardware nerd" you are, and/or who you want to pay.

Option 1) Most modern computers will have an ethernet port, just get a
crossover cable and set up a temporary network between your old and new
computer. Then you can copy all of your existing files onto your new
computer. Some modern computers will do this with either a crossover or
standard ethernet cable, others require a crossover cable.

Option 2) Burn the existing files onto a DVD or two or thee and
transfer them over.

Option 3) If your new and old system use the same type of hard drives,
install the old computer's hard drive as a second/slave drive inside
the new computer. Once you've copied everything you can remove the old
drive and put it back into the old computer. If you old system is worth
no $$, consider instead removing its hard drive and dropping it into a
firewire (and/or USB) external case. Instant transfer and external
storage!

Option 4) Most good "we custom build PC" places, and I think the real
"Apple Stores", will for a small amount of $$ do option #1 for you when
you purchase a new computer. I'm not talking about "Frys" or "Best
Buys" or "Costco", you need a "real" computer store for this option.

Now, as to running a SCSI scanner on a non scsi computer....... I had
no luck with the USB to SCSI adapters. They simply did not work with my
Umax scanner. There are PCI scsi cards that will fit almost any PC/Mac
desktop and allow you to "add" scsi to a modern computer for about
$80US. I use my scanner so infrequently that I get my ANCIENT Mac 3400c
laptop out of the closet when I need to do a scan.

By the way... "optimize for web" is just a jpg compression (which
photoshop 5 had) with the added feature that it strips the preview and
some meta tags to make a SLIGHTLY smaller file. That is nice, but
hardly a reason to buy a new computer! Optimize for web will NOT make
"better looking" web images.

Tom

On Sep 21, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Summers, Jeff wrote:

> I am not sure if this will help, but there is a usb to scsi adapter
> cable by Adaptec, Adaptec Model 1856600 USB to SCSI Adapter.
> Unfortunately, it is about $55, but is good on PC or MAC systems.  You
> could try looking at Newegg or Zipzoomfly websites, or just Google in
> general the phrase usb to scsi.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeff
>
> Dr.  Jeffrey Summers
> Office of Environmental Systems
> Office of Fossil Energy
> U.S. Dept of Energy
> 301-903-4412
> jeff.summers@hq.doe.gov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:24 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested
>
> Thanks for suggestions, Jeffrey and all....
>
> Everything has always been set to sRGB, but it's interesting that you
> and a couple of other people remark that on your monitor, the bowl has
> a
> red cast, or even looks reddish brown. There shouldn't be any red in
> the
> bowl at all; it's a deep navy blue that shades into black on the right
> side. Someone suggested that I should have chosen the option to
> "optimize for the web" which made me laugh, since my most recent
> version
> of Photoshop (5.0) still assumes that the only place an image would go
> from Photoshop would be into print publication;  it offers no option to
> optimize for the web. (After spending myself into the poorhouse keeping
> up with the cutting edge of digital imagining from 1990 to 1998, I
> stopped buying software and hardware at that point, and have bought
> nothing but a new flatbed scanner since then).
>
> I was thinking that if I ever get time, I'll re-adjust all those images
> when I get a new system with new Photoshop, properly calibrated, but
> then I remembered my other horror: I don't have any way to transfer the
> original scans to a new system. My old system is SCSI and everything
> now
> is USB; the computer guys tell me there's no such thing as an adapter
> that will translate one to the other. If anyone has a good idea for how
> to not only save my files but be able to transfer them to a new system,
> I'd be most appreciative. My brother who was the systems guy for a
> corporation says he can't think of a way, unless I had a place to FTP
> everything to and then download it from there to the new system, which
> would take days but at least would be a solution. But at any rate I
> don't have such a place. I've held onto this old thing for so long, for
> another reason because I've got Hypercard stacks with thousands of
> cards
> that I started in the early 1990s to store my research for writing.
> When
> I moved to this computer in 1998, it still ran the Hypercard I had from
> before, but the Mac guys tell me that the newer systems don't, and
> besides, how would I transfer the information anyway.
>
> Up a creek without a paddle?
> Katharine 
>
>
> Jeffrey D. Mathias wrote:
> >
> > Katharine,
> >
> > A good page of yours to also look at is the "color and pigments".
> > Although from your description "...should have luminous blushing
> > apricots in a dark blue bowl. The apricots should look clean and
> clear
> > and luminous, and there should be some detail even in the darkest
> part
> > of the bowl.", the appricots seems OK as you describe, but the bowl
> may
> > not have all the blue you indicate (even though more on left side). 
> The
> > blue seems to have a lot of red.  Anyway, it is very difficult to
> > compare without an original and even then correct viewing light must
> > then be used.
> >
> > Two suggestions:
> > 1) What I have found to work well is to keep everything (scanner,
> > photoshop, monitor, etc.) set to sRGB.  It seems as though the
> industry
> > uses this as a standard and is the default given to most equipment.
> > When one goes to your web page, most likely their color space will be
> > set to sRGB.  One of the problems I have had in the past (with photos
> > from various people for a newsletter) is that if one uses Photoshop
> > which has a different color space default, Photoshop changes the
> color
> > and saves it that way.
> >
> > 2) For critical color presentation, a test image should be included
> on
> > your site so that the viewer can adjust their monitor to view the
> proper
> > color (space, temperature, gamma, density range, etc.)  Probably one
> of
> > the most overlooked monitor adjustments is the color temperature.
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey D. Mathias
> > http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/
Received on Wed Sep 21 10:05:54 2005