What to Know Before Scanning Family Photos
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Digitize your family photos - while you still can! - and follow these five steps to get started off on the right foot.
Often times we put off preserving these precious family items at our own expense. Disasters happen, accidents happen, the unexpected happens. Safeguard your family photos!
I share what tools you might want to use and some scanning basics to get you going.
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Thank you for sharing all your knowledge! Always so informative and helpful!!
Thank you!! I’m happy you think so ☺️
Thank you so much, this is very helpful! 😊
Very nice! I would have never considered a spatula. Lol. Sorry I am behind!!😬
Haha a surprisingly useful tool for scanning! Anything plastic that won’t scratch the glass and has a thin enough edge to lift the photo works 👌
Very poweful introduction
Very useful information, thank you. I am about to start digitising literally thousands of images. I do want to publish some of them. Thinking of getting the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE for slides and film, and the Epson FastFoto FF-680W for photos. Your thoughts, please?
I'm using the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i with Vuescan software right now and it's working out for me though I'm being pretty judicious about which images I scan. With my current settings and accounting for loading the trays, slides average 2 minutes each, negs slightly more, so for me it would require hundreds of hours to process every one. If I was using an automatically loaded scanner it would go faster and I wouldn't have to be as selective, but in some ways having a curation step at the scanning stage isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just going to take a long time. Having a big light table to select the best options before you load your trays is a huge help, if not mandatory for large collections and a manually loaded scanner.
Thanks
My pleasure ☺️
Photoscan app for the win. Iphone 16 pro max with that app is the best!!
Whats the best way to store loose photos
PPI, I think you mean DPI? Correct?
Tomatoe, Tomato. Pixels/Dots per inch
Usually DPI refers to when you are printing something and PPI is for when you keep it digital but ultimately they work out the same.
Great video. One piece of advice, try to put in a blank spot before speaking.
I had to keep dragging the video to 0 second.
3min in, I have to disagree. Some people want to digitize old photos and improve them on the fly. You can buy scanners that convert bw to color as part of the scan.