From Esther Ruud Stradling, daughter of Eloise McKay Ruud 
and Carl Oliver Ruud.


A database of the images, "../0-Info-es", is in the top directory
of this image hierarchy and is described there.  File names and identifiers 
used below refer to this database.


137 photographs and 3 tin types, sent by Esther Stradling, were
gang scanned at resolutions judged appropriate for the size and
quality of the photo.  The 29 gang scans were saved as tiff files
of the scanner output: 6 of 400 ppi, 13 of 600 ppi, and 10 of 1200
ppi grayscale images, of 100% size about 13.5x18 inches (i.e., a
pro-size scanner bed), and of file size up to 350 mbytes per gang
scan.

One additional tin type that had been folded and was badly creased
was digitally imaged at 1200 ppi in color ("./scans/1200k.tif");
this image was converted to 8-bit grayscale.

Three photos were copies of or nearly identical with other photos
and were not digitized: 025-0000x-00, 078-0000x-00, 085-0000x-00.

One photo, a duplicate, was included in a gang scan but not worked
with further: 063-0000x-00.

The 29 gang scans and the digital image are in the files ./scans/*.tif


140 individual images were separated from the gang scans and the
digital image of the creased tin type.  These were saved as psd
format files, ./splits-orig/*.psd.


The individual images ./splits-orig/*.psd were adjusted for contrast
and sharpened, and saved as psd files, in "./splits-1".

Eleven of the photographs were oval (elliptical): 001 017 042 051
054 069 077 096 102 122. The rectangular images cropped from the
gang scans were separated into two layers: the elliptical image of
the photograph; the surrounding background (rectangle with elliptical
hole).  The elliptical-image layer was adjusted for contrast and
sharpened.  The background layer was filled with neutral gray
(127,127,127).  The two-layer adjusted images were saved as psd
files, in "./splits-1".


The psd format image files of directory "./splits-1" were converted
to high-quality (8) jpg images, saved in "./splits-1-jpg".


The directories "./splits" and "./splits-jpg" are symlinked to the
above two directories.


A web photo gallery, under "./photogallery/", was created as described
in the top directory.