Digitizing old photos - Followup
Feb 1, 2024 19:32:10 #
Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions for digitizing my 300+ old photos. I decided not to purchase a stand-alone scanner, but to use the scanner function on my Cannon G7030 printer. After starting the project, and seeing the results, using the printer's scanning function seems to be working out just fine. It may take me a little longer that a stand-alone scanner, but I have the time and effort level to proceed.
Feb 1, 2024 19:33:45 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions for digitizing my 300+ old photos. I decided not to purchase a stand-alone scanner, but to use the scanner function on my Cannon G7030 printer. After starting the project, and seeing the results, using the printer's scanning function seems to be working out just fine. It may take me a little longer that a stand-alone scanner, but I have the time and effort level to proceed.
I thought it would, mine does.
Feb 1, 2024 23:36:38 #
Feb 2, 2024 07:40:26 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Don't forget to show us some results!
Here are a few old photos scanned with my printer. They look good, but I will use LightRoom to clean them up and make them look even better.
Our Wedding 1971
My Dad (Long Gone)
My Dad in Florida
(Download)
My Mom and Dad at their wedding 1946
Dancing with my Mom at our wedding 1971
Feb 2, 2024 07:50:22 #
Not knowing exactly what the originals look like, I'd be very pleased.
Now they exist as an easily transportable medium to send to family and view anytime!
When I scanned my old prints, I put a copy on CD(s) and a USB FOB and sent them to each of the kids.
I also made a bunch available (One Drive) for my cousins in Canada of images taken on our vacations there that they never saw.
Now they exist as an easily transportable medium to send to family and view anytime!
When I scanned my old prints, I put a copy on CD(s) and a USB FOB and sent them to each of the kids.
I also made a bunch available (One Drive) for my cousins in Canada of images taken on our vacations there that they never saw.
Feb 2, 2024 07:59:32 #
Longshadow wrote:
Not knowing exactly what the originals look like, I'd be very pleased.
Now they exist as an easily transportable medium to send to family and view anytime!
When I scanned my old prints, I put a copy on CD(s) and a USB FOB and sent them to each of the kids.
I also made a bunch available (One Drive) for my cousins in Canada of images taken on our vacations there that they never saw.
Now they exist as an easily transportable medium to send to family and view anytime!
When I scanned my old prints, I put a copy on CD(s) and a USB FOB and sent them to each of the kids.
I also made a bunch available (One Drive) for my cousins in Canada of images taken on our vacations there that they never saw.
Right now they are sitting on an external drive. when all 300+ are scanned onto the drive, it will be inputted into LightRoom for corrections and keywording. They will finally be permanently added to my photo/video database and saved on multiple external drives. Some of them will be placed on a thumb drive so that, still alive, family members will be able to view them.
Feb 2, 2024 08:26:44 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
Right now they are sitting on an external drive. when all 300+ are scanned onto the drive, it will be inputted into LightRoom for corrections and keywording. They will finally be permanently added to my photo/video database and saved on multiple external drives. Some of them will be placed on a thumb drive so that, still alive, family members will be able to view them.
Feb 2, 2024 09:13:36 #
I have gone over my old family photos a few times and rescanned them. Since I also use PS I decided to rescan everything as DNG files, the best my Epson V700 and Vuescan software can do for me. This way there is a high quality scan available that can be easlly copied as a jpeg, or whatever, when needed.
Feb 2, 2024 09:38:45 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions for digitizing my 300+ old photos. I decided not to purchase a stand-alone scanner, but to use the scanner function on my Cannon G7030 printer. After starting the project, and seeing the results, using the printer's scanning function seems to be working out just fine. It may take me a little longer that a stand-alone scanner, but I have the time and effort level to proceed.
Just a note to think about.
I have a Brother multifunction Printer.
When I scan a picture, I can adjust the quality of the scanned picture, to make the picture.
This might be on your scanner somewhere.
Hope this might help.
Feb 2, 2024 13:18:18 #
mvetrano2 wrote:
Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions for digitizing my 300+ old photos. I decided not to purchase a stand-alone scanner, but to use the scanner function on my Cannon G7030 printer. After starting the project, and seeing the results, using the printer's scanning function seems to be working out just fine. It may take me a little longer that a stand-alone scanner, but I have the time and effort level to proceed.
That’s great to hear! I found the same thing with the scanner on my Epson Eco tank printer and my Epson V500 scanner. Results were similar for prints. I only use the Epson V500 scanner now for slides and negatives.
Feb 3, 2024 01:43:01 #
Feb 3, 2024 07:32:09 #
Feb 4, 2024 03:22:18 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
mvetrano2 wrote:
June 12, 1971.
Hey, Mvetrano did you know that you got married on exactly the same day that Richard Nixon's daughter, Trisha married married Edward Cox.
and this is even more amazing, that was the exact date that my wife became Mrs Rodeoman.
Feb 4, 2024 07:36:23 #
RodeoMan wrote:
Hey, Mvetrano did you know that you got married on exactly the same day that Richard Nixon's daughter, Trisha married married Edward Cox.
and this is even more amazing, that was the exact date that my wife became Mrs Rodeoman.
and this is even more amazing, that was the exact date that my wife became Mrs Rodeoman.
I knew about the Nixon wedding, but did not know about yours, congratulations!
Feb 4, 2024 16:23:15 #
Looks like a good start on your family photo collection. Something like that is a long term project, and the scanning is just the beginning. The hard part is to distribute the photos to your family (which sometimes requires getting your family interested in old photos). And I would re-iterate the need for documentation in a way that will travel with the photo. In the old days you could just write on the back of a print. Now it's all digital so you have to be more inventive, or at least educate your family on the existence of metadata.
Personally, I recommend PDF as a distribution format. You can mix images and documentation in a way that is easily readable using freely available software.
Personally, I recommend PDF as a distribution format. You can mix images and documentation in a way that is easily readable using freely available software.
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