From G. F. McKay family, children of Frances Green McKay
and George Frederick McKay.

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


19 photographs, sent by the G. F. McKay family, were gang scanned
by Photographic Works, Tucson, Arizona, at resolutions judged
appropriate for the size and quality of the photo.  The gang scans
were saved as tiff files of the scanner output: 4 of 400 ppi, 1 of
600 ppi, and 1 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 123 mbytes per gang scan.  The gang-scan images are in the files
./scans/*.tif

The 19 individual images were separated from the gang scans and saved
as psd format files, ./splits-orig/*.psd.


The individual images ./splits-orig/*.psd were renamed to accord
with the usual database format, rotated and cropped if necessary,
adjusted for contrast (autolevels) and sharpened, and saved as psd
files, in "./splits-1".  A noise filter was applied to a few images:
dust and scratches (001, 007); median (005, 009, 010, 014)

One of the photographs was oval (elliptical): 013.  The rectangular
image cropped from the gang scan was separated into two layers: the
elliptical image of the photograph; the surrounding background.
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 image was saved as a psd file, 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.