4 days spent scanning
By iDivision
@iDivision (1412)
Latvia
November 22, 2010 2:13pm CST
I have just spent 4 full days to scan old photos. But now i am happy because all my childhood and also years when my parents where young are saved and can be viewed digitally from any PC.
How i made it?
I have three in one - HP 1315, but i used only scan function.
I placed several photos into scanner. Then started windows 7 buit in scan tool, rised scan DPI from 200 to 300 and 600. Started the scan process which runs fast and i increase number of scanned photos by putting 2-5 photos into one scan job.
After photos is scanned they are saved in one image file on PC, so i open it with photo edit freeware tool Paint.net and cut out of the bigger image file photos one by one and resave them on PC in the right destination forlders.
Thats all - my family history now have few GB of photo files more information on my pc hard drive :)
2 responses
@surpriz3 (77)
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22 Nov 10
That's actually a great idea i should do that aswell because saving your memories is very important and usefull if u want to show some pictures of you or your family you can easy go to the pc and do it instead of searching in old albums and stuff :)
@iDivision (1412)
• Latvia
23 Nov 10
yeah thats true. I like to watch sometimes to my own old photos or photos of people i love ;)
@maximumgravity1 (245)
• United States
23 Nov 10
Animoto was making free-to-use, really easy software for creating music montages of pictures. It really is no more difficult then selecting the photos, and choosing the music you like. It puts in all transitions and animations for you. They *usually* come out really well done and quite professional. They occasionally need some tweaks, but they do pretty good for not having much input. It makes it fun for sharing the pictures with family and friends.
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@maximumgravity1 (245)
• United States
22 Nov 10
Very nicely done. This is a long process indeed - but one that will pay off in the long run. Just be sure to perform some sort of backup. Burning to CD's/dvd's is ok, but I find that they don't have as long a life expectancy as we need them to. A few years, and they seem to get damaged - or delaminate. It would be bad to have to do all that work again.
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