Fortkentdad
Senior Member
And so it begins - the project I've put off for a while.
I've set up a scanning workstation using an old PC ( as in six year old - ancient eh?) And a what used to be a good scanner (HP G4010) HP ScanJet G4010 Photo Scanner Specs - CNET Downloaded new Windows 10 compatible software. This one even does negatives and slides (have lots of those too). It has a larger bed and can scan up to nine images at once (as separate images).
But scanning higher quality takes time. A couple I did at 600 dpi max settings - several minutes per photo. Dropped to 300 dpi. much faster. Default is 200 dpi. That's faster still be I want better quality images.
Having set up the work station I just dove in. I have a antique cedar chest Mom gave me full of photos. Plus those that did not fit, Plus those I had before Mom's 'donation' to the project. They have been waiting for well over a year for me to get to it.
I got 180 done today - between other "honey-do" projects. That's 180 scanned to a jpg. I then take them to my main PC an edit them in Corel Paintshop Pro. Remove dirt scratches and clean them up sharpen, and otherwise enhanced them.
Photos go back to parents childhood. I have lots of people I don't know. Hopefully some of my living elderly relatives will be able to help me out - unfortunately only a couple of them are on line. Will have to go visiting with the lot loaded on my tablet and see how many they can identify. Both my Mom and Dad are getting on - and most of their older siblings have already passed on as have all my grandparents. And now we fear Mom has Alziemers.
Anyway - has anyone tackled a project like this? Any advice for this project which amounts to photographing photographs (that's what a scanner basically does right?)
This one is interesting - only one like it - it is a metal photograph
When looking at the original it is hard to make out anything, this scanned images if far better than the original.
I may try again and see if a different setting gets me a better image. Any tips on this one?
With the metal one was this one, my Uncle in WWII.
Interesting side note - I skip over all the photos of things and landscapes - looking only at images of people - I wonder of all the images I take of landscapes, birds, flowers, etc. In the end the only ones that may interests others someday will be the family snapshots? Or not?
I've set up a scanning workstation using an old PC ( as in six year old - ancient eh?) And a what used to be a good scanner (HP G4010) HP ScanJet G4010 Photo Scanner Specs - CNET Downloaded new Windows 10 compatible software. This one even does negatives and slides (have lots of those too). It has a larger bed and can scan up to nine images at once (as separate images).
But scanning higher quality takes time. A couple I did at 600 dpi max settings - several minutes per photo. Dropped to 300 dpi. much faster. Default is 200 dpi. That's faster still be I want better quality images.
Having set up the work station I just dove in. I have a antique cedar chest Mom gave me full of photos. Plus those that did not fit, Plus those I had before Mom's 'donation' to the project. They have been waiting for well over a year for me to get to it.
I got 180 done today - between other "honey-do" projects. That's 180 scanned to a jpg. I then take them to my main PC an edit them in Corel Paintshop Pro. Remove dirt scratches and clean them up sharpen, and otherwise enhanced them.
Photos go back to parents childhood. I have lots of people I don't know. Hopefully some of my living elderly relatives will be able to help me out - unfortunately only a couple of them are on line. Will have to go visiting with the lot loaded on my tablet and see how many they can identify. Both my Mom and Dad are getting on - and most of their older siblings have already passed on as have all my grandparents. And now we fear Mom has Alziemers.
Anyway - has anyone tackled a project like this? Any advice for this project which amounts to photographing photographs (that's what a scanner basically does right?)
This one is interesting - only one like it - it is a metal photograph
When looking at the original it is hard to make out anything, this scanned images if far better than the original.
I may try again and see if a different setting gets me a better image. Any tips on this one?
With the metal one was this one, my Uncle in WWII.
Interesting side note - I skip over all the photos of things and landscapes - looking only at images of people - I wonder of all the images I take of landscapes, birds, flowers, etc. In the end the only ones that may interests others someday will be the family snapshots? Or not?
