My project was to help a friend of the family to have a great 90th birthday party. I helped setup a digital photo display. Before the party I had to scan many photo before hand, but found new ways to scan more efficiently. This is great for archiving older images that may not last so long. If there was damage I could correct small issues such as scratches.
My experience went well. Anyone could do this if they have a computer and a high quality scanner if they wish to archive the images. Performing the scanning would take about 2 minutes, but that depends on the resolution. I tried to scan at a setting lower setting of 600 dpi (dots per inch), but found 2400 dpi to be much better quality to store. It’s true that you can go larger but it takes even longer and the photos for the most part don’t look better. You end up seeing the scratches.
For software you can use such software as Adobe Photoshop to edit beyond, but I am a mac user so I use iPhoto. If you are not a Mac user, there is free software to edit called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program.) I have used GIMP on the Linux platform and it is much like Photoshop except it’s free, just like Linux such as Fedora and Ubuntu.
My experience went well. Anyone could do this if they have a computer and a high quality scanner if they wish to archive the images. Performing the scanning would take about 2 minutes, but that depends on the resolution. I tried to scan at a setting lower setting of 600 dpi (dots per inch), but found 2400 dpi to be much better quality to store. It’s true that you can go larger but it takes even longer and the photos for the most part don’t look better. You end up seeing the scratches.
For software you can use such software as Adobe Photoshop to edit beyond, but I am a mac user so I use iPhoto. If you are not a Mac user, there is free software to edit called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program.) I have used GIMP on the Linux platform and it is much like Photoshop except it’s free, just like Linux such as Fedora and Ubuntu.
It took me weeks to complete the scanning as I had over 300 images, some were good quality, some were not since some of them were anywhere from 50-100 years old. These images were old and very precious to the family and friends; they very much enjoyed seeing the many old pictures, reminiscing old memories. The family and birthday lady had many more memories with the birthday party. I took pictures during the event and later visited my 90-year-old friend and gave her copies of pictures from her party. It was neat to see her view her recent pictures and talk about her party.
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