These were scanned in out of a few different sources of Rainbow Family publications. These were several years worth of various regional newsletters and howdy folks from OM Valley Family, Katuh Family, SCROLL, Colorado Family, Northwest Tribes, Ozark Family, HO!, SOS, Orb, All Ways Free, and Rainbow Vision into Practice.
All of the tools I use to process, edit, or modify these images is free or shareware. They're every bit as good as Photo Shop. I start by using Paint Shop Pro to scan in, and do the initial mixing. This program runs on Win95 and NT. I then use Gimpto remove most of the image editing work, although paint shop can be used for this too. I just prefer Gimp, because it runs on my Linux machine. Gimp also has a excellent "fuzzy" selection tool that's perfect for cleaning the fuzzies and other random glitches left from scanning. (newsprint isn't a very good material to scan) Finally I then use XV to manipulate the images which I store as 2 index gifs. By storing the images as indexed gifs, I can using xv, grab the foreground or background colors and manipulate their colors. This is great for making web site backgrounds.
Next to each picture is it's size.
Click on any picture to get it full-sized
(Best when used with an HTML 3.0 compliant browser)
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Bugs in this web page can go to me at rob@welcomehome.org