Great Tips to Make Scanning Your Family Photos a Big Success

PCMag.com recently published an article by M. David Stone about 12 great tips to scanning your family pictures.  According to Stone; in the age of digital photos, photo scanners are still around largely because most of us—or our parents and grandparents—have collections of old film-based photos. Most people would like to get those photos scanned, if they could only figure out how.

[A note about this blog entry: The blogging staff of Digital Directions is taking a short summer break. However, we dove back into our hundreds of posts and thought you might enjoy revisiting this interesting topic originally posted Thursday, March 15, 2012.]

The 12 tips outlined can serve as a terrific guide in helping anyone looking to get started either scanning their own family pictures or considering doing it as a service for others. 


Stone’s tips include:
1. Face Reality
2. Know Your Classes of Scanners
3. Scanners on MFPs Aren't Great
4. Choose a WIA or TWAIN Scan Drivers
5. Auto Mode Can Be Your Friend
6. Fine tune with Advanced Modes
7. Use Restore for Scanning Faded Photos
8. Clean Up Dust and Scratches
9. Fix the Lighting with Back light Correction
10. Scan Multiple Photos wih Batch mode
11. Picking a Resolution Is Important
12. Scanning Photos in an Album Can Be Done

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