Elderly parent has boxes and boxes of photos which are not in any particular order. Some are loose, some are in albums, and a few are on CDs. I have offered to assist in the organization and scanning of some or all of these photos. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this?
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posted by mintchip
on Jun 14, 2011 -
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I'm trying to figure out what services are good for scanning a large number of family photos.
We have about 60 photo albums, some with photos marked on the back with descriptions, and we want to scan them and keep them somewhat organized so we can view and print them.
So I think we have somewhere 3000 photos and I want to know if these online places do what they say on the tin, if some are better than others, etc. We are in the US, California.
What services do this, and how do I make sure I get the originals back, and the photos get metadata added to them if it's there?
posted by artlung
on Jun 5, 2011 -
12 answers
My Christmas gift to my parents this year is that I have been scanning my baby pictures using a Pandigital Photolink One-touch scanner, which scans individual pictures. I have been saving them to a memory card, and then to my computer. I am trying to figure out the best way to present this to my parents.
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posted by jenlovesponies
on Dec 15, 2010 -
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Help me scan some precious old family photos! I need advice on the best settings to use: TIFF, dpi, encodings, and the rest of it..
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posted by bchaplin
on Mar 16, 2010 -
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A few days ago, I unknowingly spilled water on a pile of old photo prints that I am planning on scanning. They dried, and now, as a result, the bottom twenty are stuck together. How can I separate the prints without tearing or otherwise ruining them? If that is impossible, I still have the negatives somewhere; how can I best scan negatives into a regular flatbed scanner?
posted by not_on_display
on May 12, 2009 -
16 answers
I'm scanning old family photos and the scanner appears to be adding colored pixels to black and white photos. What do I do now?
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posted by Jupiter Jones
on Dec 17, 2007 -
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Desktop Publishing-Filter: I'm assisting someone in completing his memoir. He has a number of family photos that he would like to scan in and insert into the text in various chapters. Help me figure out what we need.
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posted by papakwanz
on May 7, 2007 -
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Family Photo Project - I'm working on a "How to" for a project to turn my family's entire photo history into a easily searchable, sortable, and archived digital collection. I would like some insight on my plan.
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posted by Mroz
on Aug 23, 2005 -
8 answers
Does anyone know of a service that will scan all of your photographs for you? (And maybe put them back in your family album nicely?)
posted by k8t
on Jul 2, 2005 -
5 answers
I have a boatload of 35mm and ASP photos that I'd like to digitize. The options I've found are either expensive or insanely tedious... [M.I.]
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posted by Tubes
on Jan 14, 2005 -
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