Nothing is going out yet. So little done. It's an overwhelming task.
I owe Charlotte and my other known relatives the complete melange of photos and letters --many Gigabytes & duplicates.
I thought I could create a webpage/archive: complicated. Then I took another task (uncompleted, Julia, I'm sorry) and got overwhelmed and distracted.
Does it make sense to dump them all as is onto DVDs or thumb drives & let everyone do whatever they want with them?
Need to ensure that those without Photoshop can open them as regular jpgs. Wanted people to have the option of enhancing/cropping/etc with that program. I should post the good ones here; can't be sure if they were posted by my cousins elsewhere as it's all lumped together on computer.
I can't begin to approximate the myriad tools available in photoshop: just lightening or darkening some made a big difference, or cleaning up scratches. Others are pretty awful and I don't know how yet. The layering tool allows one to retain the original scan and change a working copy. More and more gigabytes.
The next generation should have the raw negatives. They can use these and future advanced capturing tools. They should have that opportunity.
Who do I give them to? Who is interested in their progenitors? When I was young I had other things going on. I missed many opportunities to get to know my father, who passed when I was 26 suddenly. I missed opportunities to know my relatives and their children. I always thought there was going to be plenty of time.
Any one of us may pass suddenly and leave it all undone. For photos, names weren't written on some of them. Who do we recognize and who are these people?
These need dispersing to anyone who is interested to either name them or discard them. Take them off me, remove my load of things to do that I haven't done yet and might never get a "Round To-It."
I hear many voices calling me -- inside myself. Pressure I'm putting on myself to honor some committments and get things done. I can blame it on bad genes but an inner voice says something like "what does it matter, who cares, you can do it tomorrow." It's all about choice: what is important at the moment may overshadow what's really important. And choosing what is important is difficult: myriad things seem important.
I tried mere sharpening and enhancing the lighting, since many of these negatives were poorly or brightly lit. Will post a few of the worst here today and some of the better ones 'tomorrow.'
I owe Charlotte and my other known relatives the complete melange of photos and letters --many Gigabytes & duplicates.
I thought I could create a webpage/archive: complicated. Then I took another task (uncompleted, Julia, I'm sorry) and got overwhelmed and distracted.
Does it make sense to dump them all as is onto DVDs or thumb drives & let everyone do whatever they want with them?
Need to ensure that those without Photoshop can open them as regular jpgs. Wanted people to have the option of enhancing/cropping/etc with that program. I should post the good ones here; can't be sure if they were posted by my cousins elsewhere as it's all lumped together on computer.
I can't begin to approximate the myriad tools available in photoshop: just lightening or darkening some made a big difference, or cleaning up scratches. Others are pretty awful and I don't know how yet. The layering tool allows one to retain the original scan and change a working copy. More and more gigabytes.
The next generation should have the raw negatives. They can use these and future advanced capturing tools. They should have that opportunity.
Who do I give them to? Who is interested in their progenitors? When I was young I had other things going on. I missed many opportunities to get to know my father, who passed when I was 26 suddenly. I missed opportunities to know my relatives and their children. I always thought there was going to be plenty of time.
Any one of us may pass suddenly and leave it all undone. For photos, names weren't written on some of them. Who do we recognize and who are these people?
These need dispersing to anyone who is interested to either name them or discard them. Take them off me, remove my load of things to do that I haven't done yet and might never get a "Round To-It."
I hear many voices calling me -- inside myself. Pressure I'm putting on myself to honor some committments and get things done. I can blame it on bad genes but an inner voice says something like "what does it matter, who cares, you can do it tomorrow." It's all about choice: what is important at the moment may overshadow what's really important. And choosing what is important is difficult: myriad things seem important.
I tried mere sharpening and enhancing the lighting, since many of these negatives were poorly or brightly lit. Will post a few of the worst here today and some of the better ones 'tomorrow.'
