During my freelance work at Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania School f/t Deaf, I asked president of alumni my idea to post whole WPSD yearbook in their site. Why not? I decide to do it. I got all 36 yearbooks, from 1969 to 2004.
It took me an exactly one month to get it all done.
More than 3,800 pages of 36 yearbooks I scanned. Average of 105 pages each yearbook.
In my yearbook folder, I had 5.26 GB of file size which includes every page of .tiff file image format, and .pdf file format for a whole pages in a yearbook.
Average one hour and 45 minutes to get whole page done in a yearbook.
However, I used HP scanjet 4670 (which is very easier to use book to scan downwards), scan 200 DPI every page, resize it into right size of width and printed a caption with ‘copyright 2004’ and transform a whole pages of yearbook into .pdf file. Then, I break down another new .PDF file in every section of pages – Seniors, Staff, Activities, and Sports. Then, I upload all sections of a yearbook into alumni website.
You can take a look one of my 1996 yearbook senior section here (PDF format, 2.0 MB, 80-99 pages).
Wonder what my life looks like while I am working on this? Take a look a movie clip (2.0 MB of Quicktime). Thanks to mamamusings’ idea to use stop motion – I really enjoyed my time using my Canon PowerShot S330 to use time interval to capture the picture every 30 seconds; saved it as jpg (I usually had around 120 pictures) and import all of them into Quicktime to create a stop motion clip.
However, after I am done with all yearbooks, I am planning to make a back copy of all yearbooks into a DVD format, to store it. Since I don’t have DVD-RW drive with me, I am forwarding to buy this drive sometime this year. I am not satisfied with CD-RW file size format because it only holds up to 650 MB and needs much space for multiple CDs to store every yearbook.
Today, WPSD Alumni web site is growing very popular for alumnus who registered & logged into their site and check out the yearbooks. The year book brings the most cherish time to remembrance in our rich history of WPSDAA website.
i need to know for the next school year if i see my friends from eighth grade
Posted by kayla irvin | July 9, 2008 7:12 PM
i'm looking for the yearbook from middle school at western pa school for the deaf
Posted by kayla | January 16, 2009 3:46 PM