Details of the Art Work for The Great Ends of the Church

The art work appeared as black and white line drawings in the booklet referenced on the previous page. The drawings were scanned with a modest paint program by an inexpensive full page scanner ($40). The line drawing was then converted to full color. Any broken lines were repaired and the resulting enclosed spaces filled with various colors. Because many browsers respond to a limited range of colors, only a few were used. The outer and inner borders were filled with darker colors. Lighter colors were used to fill the central part of the image. To provide continuity, the borders were all filled in much the same way. Each dove was filled with the same colors also.

There was some difficulty filling some of the white spaces. If the scanner missed part of some line, the color would leak into adjacent cells. Fortunately, the paint program, which could draw straight lines of adjustable width between points, made the necessary repairs easy. If the bucket tool for filling the space was misplaced, the black lines would be colored instead of the white space. This process took a long (30 s) time. Fortunately the paint program supported a key that would stop the process. A zoom feature also made the white spaces larger so the fill tool did not have to be places so carefully. An undo key made it easy to back up and fix any black dividing line that had a small hole in it.

After the image was colored, it was saved as a TIF file, occupying almost 10 MB of memory. Because only a few colors were used in relatively large blocks, the image was easy to compress. It was imported into FrontPage 98 as a JPEG file (250 KB). The file was resampled to the new size reducing it to about 30 KB with a reduction in resolution but still acceptable quality. FrontPage then produced a 10 KB thumbnail which appears on the main page. The thumbnails are collected in a table for compactness and captions applied. It was arranged that when the caption is clicked, a page with the large image and an explanation of the symbolism appears. If the thumbnail is selected, only the large image, unencumbered with text, appears on the screen.

It took about 6 hours to scan and color the images, during which time I learned to use the scanner and paint program. It took another 6 hours or so to create the pages and load them onto the web during which time I learned a lot about creating and using thumbnails. (It turns out that once you expand a thumbnail in FrontPage there is not much you can do with that page. To create convenient thumbnail expansion pages, you have to so some hand coding. I also learned just how convenient and easy it is to make tables in FrontPage.) The art work is just a little fuzzy on the Internet. It looks really good printed out by a color printer on special paper. If anybody wishes the uncompressed files, I can make them available (at cost) on a zip disk (or 45 high density 3.5 inch disks, if you insist).

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