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I just happened across this website which has a lot of decks in it, which allows you to view each of the cards. I thought I would share it with those that might not have seen it and are interested.

http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/Cards/index.html

That's a pretty awesome gallery, insofar as it has not just a few representative cards, but the entire decks.

I think I've seen it referenced in Portfolio52.

Yep, Some deck descriptions mention it.

Check this one for instance:
https://www.portfolio52.com/deck/3405/view" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I do something similar on Flickr. It allows me to stream the art to a digital picture frame. Hers looks much better than mine does.

macstrat wrote:I do something similar on Flickr. It allows me to stream the art to a digital picture frame. Hers looks much better than mine does.

do you have a link you can share? I'm quite interested how you've got it set up

PipChick wrote:

macstrat wrote:I do something similar on Flickr. It allows me to stream the art to a digital picture frame. Hers looks much better than mine does.

do you have a link you can share? I'm quite interested how you've got it set up

Images are located here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/167981955@N07/albums" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I am still in the process of scanning, uploading then correcting the rotation.

They stream to a NixPlay Seed: https://shop.nixplay.com/products/nixpl ... rame#black" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I can grab a photo of that later as the frame is on my desk at work

Ive had conversations with nixplay, and hopefully soon they are adding support for photo captions and other information.

Helpfull links! Thanks

Gary

I have been meaning to post this for a while, and finally got around to it. Below is a video on how I display my collection, as well and what I do with all my card scans.

Damn, that is awesome!

Nice, I could never get away with a TV sized device displaying pictures of cards (my wife would not allow it), but I suppose one could adapt that to a 10" digital picture frame for the office or to be less conspicuous in the home. Great idea, thanks for sharing! Would love to see a video on how your card scanning set up... it's a pain when I do them.

robcan0630 wrote:Nice, I could never get away with a TV sized device displaying pictures of cards (my wife would not allow it), but I suppose one could adapt that to a 10" digital picture frame for the office or to be less conspicuous in the home. Great idea, thanks for sharing! Would love to see a video on how your card scanning set up... it's a pain when I do them.

i gave up on the digital picture frame after I hit the photo limits of the frame. If you only display 7-8 Decks worth of cards it would work, but after that you need to move onto a raspberry pi. They do make smaller TVs, or a computer monitor would work. TVs allow for VESA wall mounting that most monitors dont. See the link below

Bestbuy 15" 720p TV: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/insignia-1 ... Id=6164904

Scanning:
The process for scanning is pretty simple.
My equipment is an epson v39 scanner. I think i paid about $50 for it at best buy.
Cards are laid out in a 3x3 grid and scanned in at 350dpi (this is just large enough for each card to be 1080p resolution) to a multipage TIFF file (this allows for easy archiving of the originals).
The TIFF files are then run through Easy2Convert Tiff to JPG to split the tiff files into single JPGs.
The JPGs files are loaded into photoshop and then I run an action that runs Automate>Crop and Straighten Photos, then saves the single files at max resolution.

There is no color correction in the scanner software or photoshop.

Yeah, that's pretty damn awesome. If it were me, I'd probably also divide them up into smaller categories like courts+aces only, or even just AoS' only (that might fit in one of those frames). Depending on the size of those categories, you can probably buy small USB drives in bulk pretty cheap.

How much space do all your scans take?

MagikFingerz wrote:Yeah, that's pretty damn awesome. If it were me, I'd probably also divide them up into smaller categories like courts+aces only, or even just AoS' only (that might fit in one of those frames). Depending on the size of those categories, you can probably buy small USB drives in bulk pretty cheap.

How much space do all your scans take?

I just realized I posted this without adding anything. So ya, the nixplay frames will max out at 1000 images per album at once. Having a back, courts, and mbe a few other cards, will work for a photo frame. You can download the original files from my Flickr is you need them. I have an action for a 16:9 ratio frame that will allow you to add the deck name, printer, artist, and a caption at the bottom to make it a full 16:9 image.

Space wise, each image averages 1mb, a 64gb USB stick will run $15 on the low end

Thought I would update this with some recent changes:

the RaspPi is still being used, but the USB drive became corrupted, so I switched over to streaming from my home server via NFS. This also allows the scan archive to be automatically backed up in case something happens automatically.

Total archive size: 15gb
Total Image count as of 1/18/2020: 24,277 images