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

Subject: Re: How to impose small-enough numbers on a photo?
From: Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:59:14 -0700 (PDT)


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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