[bksvol-discuss] Re: need help with image description
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:57:45 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Scott. The image on the right was so large, I didn't realize there was
text to be seen. I just tried a "find" for another picture and found the
caption that goes with the image. Now I'm all set to do a lot, both while
working on proofing gthe Shadow history and after.
Cindy
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> From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:35 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: need help with image description
>
>
>Hi Cindy,
>
>
>I am not sure I am visualizing your problem correctly but maybe the attached
>document on placing the image in context is helpful.
>
>
>Keep in mind that a large number of images in the textbooks for lower grades
>have absolutely no educational value and can be skipped. So be certain that
>you have set the filter in the yellow box of the upper left corner to
>"Description Needed" so you only see images that have been tagged in the first
>phase review of the book as needing description.
>
>
>Once you click on the image in the left column that you are working on its
>counterpart will pop up on the right with the book text surrounding it. As
>long as the image has an image description box appearing under it you can then
>scroll in the right frame to read context.
>
>
>Just remember to always use the left column to click you to the next image or
>you won't get an image description box and may end up describing eye candy.
>
>
>scott
>
>From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:20:46 -0800
>To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] need help with image description
>
>
>
>Istarted to do start images descriptions, but I can't quite tell what
>>> this particular image is. The print book is unavailable (even from
>>> the university at which the author teaches) It is a cut-away of a
>>> multi-floored
>>> building. There appears to be machinery in it. I',m wondering if it
>>> is a textile mill, since the title of the chapter, or the next chapter, is
>>> Experience what life was like in an 1800s mill town, p. 370.
>Unknown command.
>
>>> If one of you who can download books from the collection can send me
>>> p. 370 or a few paragraphs, then I can describe this
image.
>
>
>>> Thanks in advance, Grandma Cindy
>
>P.S. I started working on a different book, a biology book, and have the same
>problem. How do you describe an image without having the text on the page to
>know what it is.
>Is there a way to get to the text in the book on the image poet?
>
>Scot--I just saw your note so I'm copying you on this. I didntwant to
>botheryou during the holidays
>Cindy
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