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Question: What do I need to know when scanning images for the photo montage slideshow?
Slideshow Sections
A typical photo montage slideshow consists of four sections. The first and the second section
is for the bride's (or groom's) baby
pictures, teenage, graduations, family shots, as well as recent photos. The third section
includes pictures of the couple shots, and with friends and family. The last section is
usually showing some wedding studio pictures or some romantic shots at the beach or so. It ususally
requires some glamourous shots to end the slideshow. If you do not have studio pictures to be used,
please contact us for our field photography service.
Number of Pictures
Depends on the song choice, it should take about 10 to 20 pictures in each section. It would be
better to include more pictures for us to select from. On average, send us 20 to 40 pictures for
each section for the slideshow.
Scanner Settings
Pictures are needed to be scanned at 600 dpi and saved as JPEG format with highest possible quality (lowest
compression ratio). LA Color also provide scanning service of $50 of up to 100 pictures. All original pictures as well as scanned image files will be returned to you.
Folder Naming
We would like to ask you to scan pictures and stored them into different folders according
to the section of the photo montage slideshow. You can name the folder such as
1-Mary
2-Peter
3-Couple
4-WeddingPics
File Name Numbering
Because we would not be able to tell what age of the person in the picture, it is important
for you to name the file in chronlogical order as
01.jpg
02.jpg
03.jpg
...
and so on. Please add the leading zero to the file numbering for proper sorting results.
Since there will be more pictures submitted than pictures actually used in the slideshow, we
would suggest you append an "-X" to the end of the file name to indicate that particular picture
must go to the final slideshow (e.g. pictures with bride's maid, grand parents, etc). For example,
...
15.jpg
16-X.jpg
17-X.jpg
18.jpg
In such case we will know we must incoporate 16-X.jpg and 17-X.jpg in the slideshow.
Submission Time
All image files and the song selection file (in MP3 format) must be mailed to us at least two
weeks before your wedding day.
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