Dover CD/book-The Art of Tarot Cards
Posted: 15 Jan 2011, 22:44
I bought this about 2 weeks ago. I was excited that there is a source for hi-rez digital facsimile's of 11 antique decks. Now my forum posts can be profusely illustrated
The promo copy for this package never seems to list the actual decks.
The other size is called 'web ready' at 72 dpi. They are small lo-rez jpgs around 200 X 3 or 400 pix. But they are all around 150 mgs each ! Calling them 'web-ready' is something of a joke !!! Especially when they pixilate at one or 2 magnifications. It does not seem that the person who did these 'web-ready' jpgs was a web designer. I would not post a 150 mg jpg on a forum, or have one on my own website. That is a 40 second load time on dial-up. Bigger than an entire page should be ! These are unecessary anyhow. You can easily reduce one of the 'hi-rez' files. (On OS X it can be done through the 'tools' menu in Preview.app ). However, batch processing a whole deck is not such an easy proposition.
This can be done with Photoshop (if you have it) or with xnview, or the gimp. Both are free softwares.
The promo copy for this package never seems to list the actual decks.
- - Le Minchiate Florentine
- - Tarocco Italiano
- - The classic Tarot
- - Il Tarocchi Dei Visconti
- - The Waite-Smith Tarot
- - I Tarocchi Dei Mantegna
- - The Knap-Hall Tarot
- - Il Tarocco Di Besancon
- - Ancient Tarot of Lombardy
- - The Bolognese Tarot
- - The Gumppenberg Tarot
The other size is called 'web ready' at 72 dpi. They are small lo-rez jpgs around 200 X 3 or 400 pix. But they are all around 150 mgs each ! Calling them 'web-ready' is something of a joke !!! Especially when they pixilate at one or 2 magnifications. It does not seem that the person who did these 'web-ready' jpgs was a web designer. I would not post a 150 mg jpg on a forum, or have one on my own website. That is a 40 second load time on dial-up. Bigger than an entire page should be ! These are unecessary anyhow. You can easily reduce one of the 'hi-rez' files. (On OS X it can be done through the 'tools' menu in Preview.app ). However, batch processing a whole deck is not such an easy proposition.
This can be done with Photoshop (if you have it) or with xnview, or the gimp. Both are free softwares.