P3D Making slides from stereo cards

[Ralph Johnston <copley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have found a good way to get quality slides from faded stereo cards.  It
is done by scanning the cards, enhancing the image digitally, and then
photographing the screen.  The quality is quite good and you can't see the
shadow mask in the slides at all.

1)      Scan each half of the card at 400dpi producing a 1200 x 1200 pixel image
for each side
2)      Use Photoshop or Photopaint to automatically adjust contrast,
brightness, and intensity.  Use same corrections on both sides.
3)      Edit out any chips, gouges, etc. with the editor.  You can cut from the
good side and paste it in to the bad side.  Save left and right images
separately
4)      Display the left image full screen at 1200 x 1600 pixel resolution on a
17" or 19" monitor
5)      Photograph the screen (at night) with a SLR camera on a tripod using
slide film.  Repeat for the right half
6)      Mount (or remount if in 2x2's) the slides in realist format masks (I
used 21mm RBT's)

The slides can also be viewed on the screen at high resolution using the
VueMagic side-by-side viewer

1)      Open a new image in Photo shop/paint and "paste from file" the left and
the right images.  Move them so they touch side-by-side.
2)      Crop and save
3)      View with a jpg viewer that sizes to full screen such as VuePrint Pro
5.0 and start a slide show
4)      Use the VueMagic side-by-side viewer.  With 1200 x 1600 resolution this
gives 800 x 800 pixels for each half, almost as good as the 1200 x 1200 on
the slides made above.

My collection of 35 stereo cards with cats in the subject was done this
way.  I will be showing a sample at the next StereoNewEngland meeting on
Sept 27, 1998.  See the web page for details

Best Regards -Ralph
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