[Bobbi Jo]

I've been asked to put together a slide show that will run in a loop on a TV monitor for an upcoming wedding reception. I'll be scanning in a ton of photos, and I'm wondering what resolution I should scan them at?

Also, if anyone else has done this, I'd appreciate any advice. Did you connect a computer with a media player to the TV, or put it on a DVD? And how do you get it to loop?

I'm in a little over my head, but they're friends on a tight deadline (the wedding is Oct. 18th and we're leaving for Utah on the 30th, so . . . not much time). I think dh volunteered me, no doubt exaggerating my abilities. Any help or suggestions you have will be welcome.

[J9Buckles]

You'll want to scan at the highest resolution your scanner will allow. I have done this with Windows Movie Maker but have yet to figure out how to loop it. I wonder if it is a setting on some dvd players. Would love to know this answer to this as well.

[patsyt]

Here's what I found on the looping question when I googled it. HTH.

play it through windows media player and click on the repeat button. as long as it is one continuous file, it will repeat until doomsday. if the disk is made up of a number of different files, combine them in windows movie maker into one movie, then do the above.

[BarbaraC1977]

Hmmm, I think I have to offer a different perspective on resolution here. For television output, I don't know of any monitors that are higher than 1080 pixels across. So if you scan at lower resolution, it should be ok. TEST it to be sure, but I'm pretty confident on this. If you are projecting the images, there are VERY few that are above that resolution. (I just did some images at 1000 pixels maximum dimension for a slide show. Even enlarged to five feet across, they were gorgeous onscreen.)

Tradeoff: If you're going to spend time correcting the images, adjusting color/brightness, removing red-eye, cropping, etc, before the show, then YES, scan at higher resolution--you'll need the pixels for corrections.

I normally do scan at highest possible resolution, but if you're trying to scan a lot of images in a hurry, speed is of the essence. Just don't PRINT from lower resolution images.

[J9Buckles]

I guess I should have been more specific. My scanner will only go as high as 600dpi so that would be my highest resolution.

[Bobbi Jo]

I appreciate everyone's help!

My scanner only goes to 600 dpi too, so that's what I'm scanning them in at -- eats up a ton of disk space but I will give them a DVD of the pictures when I'm done and clear it from my hd.

I have another question: has anyone used the PSE (that's my image editing software) utility for creating slide shows? I have done a couple of small shows of LOs for my own use and it is pretty intuitive and easy to use. I looked at Windows Movie Maker and I'm wondering what the advantage of that program would be over PSE?

[BarbaraC1977]

Janine & Bobbi Jo--Yup, the equipment makes a big difference in one's definition of "high resolution." Mine is at least 1200 DPI which makes for big, slow files at that resolution.