Technical Guides

Making Slides from Digital Images

Many members have been using a very quick and economical mail-order service, “Micro-Quiz” to have their digital images turned into mounted 35mm slides.  Here’s what to do:

1.           File format can be Photoshop PSD, TIFF or JPG.  If Photoshop, a flattened copy is preferred. 

2.           No limit to file size or megapixel count.

3.           If necessary, rotate portrait images to landscape format.

4.           Set image size to 36 x 24 mm.  If your finished picture does not have this 3:2 aspect ratio, make this the “canvas size”, and fill the blank space with a black border.
Thus you might reduce a 640 x 480 mm image to 32 x 24 mm, then increase the canvas to 36 x 24 mm, select the 2mm blank gap either side and fill with black.

5.           If detail right at the very edge of the image is critically important, you might want to make the image slightly smaller with at least 0.5mm border all round, the overall canvas size still being 36 x 24 mm, so there is no risk that the mount may hide the edge of the image.

6.           You might want to make one or two variants to your image, perhaps with lower contrast or different colour saturation.

7.           Images can be sent by mailing a CD, or by uploading to the Micro Quiz website.  If uploading, the file size may be an issue depending on the connection you use.

8.           Mail address is Micro Quiz, 35 Shrewsbury Road, WORKSOP, Nottinghamshire S80 2PA.  Enclose a cheque made out to Micro Quiz.  Phone is 01909470607.

9.           Website is www.micro-quiz.co.uk.  It features an upload utility and credit-card checkout.  Look out for the discount password box.

The 'additional information' box in the checkout area is the only place you are able to put the password in, in order to obtain discount. There is a 'coupon or discount number' box on the page where you put your address etc. but that is not for a password, only an issue number.

10.      Club members are entitled to claim discounted prices; currently £1.53 per slide plus P&P of £1.50 regardless of quantity.  Contact a Committee member to obtain the necessary password.

11.      The slides are returned in an A4 plastic sheet holding up to 20 slides, usually in only a few days.