EDITING OF THE BOOKS AND MAGAZINE.
BOOK
TITLE PAGE
I went to the arhives, and got a text book entitled Objectives of the Physical
Education Lesson by M.W. Randall and W.K Waine and went ahead to scan
the title page, contents page and an index page. After that, opened Gimp and
started with the editing as follows
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of rotation was
0.60.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a border
around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 19 cm ( height)
and 12 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then turned the document into Grey Scale. I selected Image, Mode,
Greyscale.
f) I then made the background white. I selected Tools, Coloured tools,
levels. I then selected Pick white point which was 114, clicked in the
image to make the background white. From there i picked the black
point which was 114, clicked in the image to make the text darker.
g) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
h) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i had
created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif. I also
selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box and then
exported the files.
CONTENTS PAGE
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of rotation
was 0.50.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a
border around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 19 cm ( height)
and 12 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then turned the document into Grey Scale. I selected Image,
Mode, Greyscale.
f) I then made the background white. I selected Tools, Coloured tools,
levels. I then selected Pick white point which was 142, clicked in
the image to make the background white. From there i picked the
black point which was 119, clicked in the image to make the text
darker.
g) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
h) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i had
created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif. I also
selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box and then
exported the files.
INDEX PAGE
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of
rotation was 0.40.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a
border around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 19 cm (
height) and 12 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the
image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then turned the document into Grey Scale. I selected Image,
Mode, Greyscale.
f) I then made the background white. I selected Tools, Coloured
tools, levels. I then selected Pick white point which was 123,
clicked in the image to make the background white. From there i
picked the black point which was 117, clicked in the image to
make the text darker.
g) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
h) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i
had created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif.
I also selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box
and then exported the files.
Creating a PDF File
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I downloaded Adobe – Acrobat Pro DC on my laptop
I opened Adobe, selected multiple files, clicked combine files to PDF
I added the three files i.e the title page, content page and index page ,
chose the folder, selected the files, opened and combined files
From there, i saved and typed the file name as “ 001 Nabbosa Mary
Gorreti.
I selected organise pages, page labels, right clicked and selected
number pages.
I then selected begin new section, style “None”, prefix “Title Page” ,
start “ 1”and then Ok. I did the same for the content and index pages
and i saved.
I went back to the document, in the right margin, selected edit PDF,
Add bookmark, then went to the left margin, selected the blue ribbon,
double clicked on the book mark and i renamed it and saved.
I went ahead to assign the Optical Character Recognition. I selected
Enhance Scans, Recognize text, selected “In this file” typed the search
terms, clicked “ Next” and saved.
I then right clicked on the cover page, selected find, typed the serach
term and clicked ok.
I then added a Water mark. I selected tools, edit PDF, watermark, Add
watermark and typed “ Digitized by Mary Gorreti Nabbosa, CPD3,
2015”. I selected the font type “Arial”, font size “12”, colour “blue”,
position “4mm” ( vertical, bottom) and “10mm” ( horizontal, Right) I
then selected “save selected settings”, typed the water mark name i.e “
water mark 2015”.
I then selected file, “Save As other”, , reduced size, a dialogue box
popped up, retained existing and clicked ok , saved and renamed the
reduced file as “ 001 Nabbosa Mary Gorreti 1”
MAGAZINE
TITLE PAGE
I went to the rare collections section, and got a magazine entitled The Lancet
and went ahead to scan the title page, contents page and an index page.
After that, i opened Gimp and started with the editing as follows
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of
rotation was 0.60.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a
border around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 28 cm (
height) and 20 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the
image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then turned the document into Grey Scale. I selected Image,
Mode, Greyscale.
f) I then made the background white. I selected Tools, Coloured
tools, levels. I then selected Pick white point which was 114,
clicked in the image to make the background white. From there i
picked the black point which was 114, clicked in the image to
make the text darker.
g) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
h) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i
had created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif.
I also selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box
and then exported the files.
MAGAZINE PAGE 1
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of
rotation was 0.10.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a
border around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 28 cm (
height) and 20 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the
image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
f) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i
had created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif.
I also selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box
and then exported the files.
Note: I did not use the grey scale in order to retain the colour of
the diagrams.
MAGAZINE PAGE 2
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of
rotation was 0.00.
b) Cropping. I selected Tools, Transform tools, Crop. Then i drew a
border around it, double clicked inside so that i keep the crop.
c) Canvas Size. I selected image, canvas. The size was 28 cm (
height) and 20 cm ( width). I then centered and resized the
image.
d) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
e) I then turned the document into Grey Scale. I selected Image,
Mode, Greyscale.
f) I then made the background white. I selected Tools, Coloured
tools, levels. I then selected Pick white point which was 127,
clicked in the image to make the background white. From there i
picked the black point which was 127, clicked in the image to
make the text darker.
g) I then got the reaser and erased the dirty spots.
h) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i
had created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif.
I also selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box
and then exported the files.
Creating a PDF File
Magazine
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I downloaded Adobe – Acrobat Pro DC on my laptop
I opened Adobe, selected multiple files, clicked combine files to PDF
I added the three files i.e the title page, content page and index page ,
chose the folder, selected the files, opened and combined files
From there, i saved and typed the file name as “ 002 Nabbosa Mary
Gorreti.
I selected organise pages, page labels, right clicked and selected
number pages.
I then selected begin new section, style “None”, prefix “Title Page” ,
start “ 1”and then Ok. I did the same for the content and index pages
and i saved.
I went back to the document, in the right margin, selected edit PDF,
Add bookmark, then went to the left margin, selected the blue ribbon,
double clicked on the book mark and i renamed it and saved.
I went ahead to assign the Optical Character Recognition. I selected
Enhance Scans, Recognize text, selected “In this file” typed the search
terms, clicked “ Next” and saved.
I then right clicked on the cover page, selected find, typed the serach
term and clicked ok.
I then added a Water mark. I selected tools, edit PDF, watermark, Add
watermark and typed “ Digitized by Mary Gorreti Nabbosa, CPD3,
2015”. I selected the font type “Arial”, font size “12”, colour “blue”,
position “1mm” ( vertical, bottom) and “8mm” ( horizontal, Right) I then
selected “save selected settings”, typed the water mark name i.e “
water mark 2, 2015”.
I then selected file, “Save As other”, , reduced size, a dialogue box
popped up, retained existing and clicked ok and saved and renamed
the reduced file as “ 002 Nabbosa Mary Gorreti 1”
FLUTE BOY IMAGE
I went to Makerere University Main Library and took a photo of the
sculpture using my phone. I opened Gimp and proceeded with editing.
a) Rotation: I selected Layer, Arbitrary Rotation. The angle of
rotation was 0.00.
b) Flattening Image. I selected Image, Flatten Image.
c) I then removed the background borders from the image. I went
to the tool box, selected the rectangle, selected the area i wanted
to remove, then deleted.
d) I then got the reaser and erased the remaining dirty spots.
e) Exporting File. I selected File, Export As, selected the folder i
had created, named the file with the extensions png, jpeg and tif.
I also selected the matching file extensions in the dialogue box
and then exported the files.