How do you scan your photo's?

chaddythebear

Just looking to see if there is an easier and quicker way to scan my old photo's.

I currently use a cannon flatbed scanner that i have had for years, and i scan 4 at a time, wich seems to take forever,

once scanned i copy it and make 4 copy's

i then edit them by right clicking on them and resize them using custom thus making one photo, i do this 4 times.

Is there an easier and quicker way?

Is there better quicker scanners on the market that cut the photo's up for you?

thanks


ps it's windows vista

Lil306

The quickest method is either buying a printer / scanner that supports scanning from Negatives, or buying an add on for your exisiting printer.

Depending on how clever your scanning software is, if you load 1 photo it should automatically crop it to that size straight away

chaddythebear

Have went for this

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/256/336/-/12096328/Toshiba-Journe-Scan-Digital-Photo-Scanner-For-4-x-6-Photographs/Product.html?searchtype=genre

just what i need

chunter

The newer scanners (usb2.0) on the 3-in-1 printers are much quicker than the old parallel ones. Scan at 300 ppi.

DCFC79

Or buy a camera that stores the pictures on an sd card and you connect the camera to the printer to view the photos

Darksun

If you have the negatives, most photo developing places can make a photo CD for you, takes up less of your time but will obviously cost you more money.

You can usually get a photo CD for not much more money when getting films developed originally

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chaddythebear wrote: »

Have went for this

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/256/336/-/12096328/Toshiba-Journe-Scan-Digital-Photo-Scanner-For-4-x-6-Photographs/Product.html?searchtype=genre

just what i need

That seems harder work than what you have already, one photo at a time being fed in, the scanning software usually has an option to split up a multi-photo scan into separate files without any editing