Photographs

We would especially like to get scanned pictures we can crop to make a couple of thumbnail images for each person. Aren't these examples nicer, and more recognizable, than just a name? We're ready to store and post any other photographs you send us, but they may not get any fancy processing for the time being (until there are more volunteers). Don't give up if all you have is a newspaper clipping; it's surprising how well those can be cleaned up! (This B/W example was scanned from the Bay Area Reporter.)

Format: If you scan pictures yourself, please use an "lossless" format such as TIFF (or Photoshop, PDF, CCITT, PostScript) and not a a "lossy" compression format like JPEG. The latter makes it hard to manipulate the iamge without generating odd glitches (you've probably seen photos on the Web that suffer from this).

Not sure how to scan into that format? Let us know, and we'll walk you through it. Most pictures scan well at 200DPI, using RGB or greyscale.

In case all you have is a JPEG image, of course we'll take what we can get. If you absolutely have to scan to JPEG for some reason, use the highest-quality setting when saving. (If you want to also include Photoshopped head-shot thumbnails, those are JPEG 135w x 165h medium quality.).

References: If you know of pictures that somebody else has, please let us know so we can put them on our list — and maybe we can arrange to get their pictures scanned.

Delivery: Email us to say what you've got, and we'll make arrangements for delivery (email attachment, FTP, etc). Don't US Mail photos before contacting us -- we want to make sure they stay safe!

Other Material Sought: We'd love some nice graphics for these pages. Do you have a photo of the Memorial Altar at Wolf Creek, for example? Mugwort is also looking for any photos of Gryphon Blackswan.

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Feedback

Do you have anything to say about these pages, or how to make them nicer?

Name Gatherer

You might have a list of names, or perhaps your community has a memorial altar with names on it. Maybe you subscribe to one of the Sanctuary newsletters, and would be willing to keep an eye out for obituaries there. I'd like for this list to be as comprehensive as possible, so any role you can play in expanding our net would be greatly appreciated!

Scanning

If you're available to scan pictures, then people in your area can bring them by for scanning instead of entrusting them to the mail.

Memorials

In the announcement for a memorial service, ask that people bring pictures. Have somebody set up a scanner and computer, and voila! All those photos can be saved and made available here.

Leads

Know anybody who has suitable pictures or other material? We'll never find them unless somebody points them out!

Graphic Design and Drawing

As you can see, I don't have any background at page design. And our pages would benefit from graphics: backgrounds, tasteful borders, banners?

Photographc Skills

Any advice on how to ship and store precious photographs safely, and how we can make people feel safe in sending us an irreplacable print? Retouching and adjustment of scanned pictures (both doing it and showing us how).

Web Space

If we succeed in collecting many photos, we'll need some Web-connected disk space (with backups). Brother-sister, can you spare a few Gigabytes?

Statistics

Updated 2/20/14.