Re: How to impose small-enough numbers on a photo?

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Solarize the class photo (or some simliar procedure) and save a version of it that shows only the outlines of the forms. Put that on the facing page and apply the callouts to it. 


--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Guy K. Haas <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Guy K. Haas <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
> Subject: How to impose small-enough numbers on a photo?
> To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 11:28 PM
> This is not directly about tech
> writing, but it touches on it a related 
> problem.  I have a 5-megapixel black-and-white photo
> (scanned to .jpg 
> but saved in .psd format) of a seventh grade dance circa
> 1955.  It shows 
> probably 40 people, from foreground (head about 1/10 the
> height of the 
> image) to background (heads less than half that tall).
> 
> For the class newsletter, we'd like to apply numbers to the
> image -- 
> say, on people's chests -- and see who can identify the
> most people.
> 
> Now, the problem is that with my Photoshop CS2, I can't
> make the text 
> digits small enough.  The smallest font they offer is
> 6pt, and that 
> makes digits that are as tall as the smallest faces in the
> image.
> 
> I've thought of resizing the image LARGER, but that invents
> pixels, 
> reducing quality.
> 
> I considered doing it with a grid [A,B,C,... across and 1,
> 2, 3, ... 
> down the side], but that seemed cluttered.
> 
> I've thought of callout leader lines from people to the
> margin, but that 
> gets cluttery.
> 
> Would the GIMP or some other shareware/free tool be of any
> help?
> 
> It would be REALLY tricky to blow up the image, apply text
> numbers to an 
> overlay, then resize it downward and superimpose only that
> layer to the 
> original photo.
> 
> Any other bright ideas?
> 
> --Thanks,
>      Guy K. Haas
>      Software Exegete in Silicon
> Valley
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