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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 3995927, member: 9270"]There are a LOT of coins in my collection that aren't imaged.For example, out of my complete FE/IHC set less than 10 have pictures.But that's for later since the set is in a safe deposit box as is most of my better stuff. Taking good pictures and then formatting them is a slow process, at least for me.1. Take pictures. Not too many at once since I get confused easily.-- I've got a Nikon D90 SLR with a Nikkor 60mm Macro lens and an inexpensive camera stand. Plenty good enough for me.-- I use an OTT-LITE with a "white" tube bulb. Goodman rates that as close to real sunlight.2. Transfer pictures to my desktop computer.3. Make a folder for each coin. I do that at this point so I can keep in mind what I'm dealing with.4. Transfer the raw images into the appropriate folder. If I don't do it now I can easily get confused later. I got confused on part of the Japanese occupation of China images and had to delete some of them take the pictures all over again.5. Edit the pictures with Photoshop Elements.-- I close-crop original and keep a copy.-- I resize the original to screen size and keep a copy.-- I circular crop the resized image and apply an appropriate background and keep a copy. This is generally my final picture.6. Finally I make the appropriate notations in my inventory. My inventory is done in Excel. Ten coins will take anywhere from 1½-2 hours to do.Fortunately I'm retired so that I have to do this. A result:<img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/1940-ReformedGovt-10Fen-o-50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/1940-ReformedGovt-10Fen-r-50.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]

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