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by Ron Hunter » Fri Apr 15, 2016 11:52 am
I've got two boxes of photos at home that I would like to digitize and incorporate into my Lightroom catalog. I have a scanner and could therefore do the digitizing myself, but obviously that would take a while.
I've heard about scanning services that scan a box of pictures for a flat fee. Can anyone recommend such a service?
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by Bob » Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:41 pm
Don't know any companies in your local area, but I do know one here in California. ScanMyPhotos in Irvine has been around about 25 years and does that type of scanning. A normal job is scanned at 300dpi but they will do 600dpi for a little extra.
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by Chuck Engels » Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:16 am
I did 100's of my own. I liked being able to set key words and tags, clean them up a bit or remove some lines and scratches. In the end it took me months to do them all but I think it was worth it.
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by Peru » Sat Apr 16, 2016 3:57 pm
Only months, Chuck? It took me two years scanning negatives and photos and I didn't even do any cleaning up. I figure that I will do my adjustments as I need to use them. Oh, and I'm not done, yet. I found some more...
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by Kent Frost » Sat Apr 16, 2016 5:01 pm
I've spent the last 2 years scanning family photos of both mine and my wife's. Her's had about 1,100, while my family's collection is somewhere near 4,000-5,000. Got her's done in the course of about a month, whereas my family's collection is still a work in progress. What I typically do is use the most manual settings I can possibly achieve with my 2 scanners, and throw as many photos on the bed as I can fit and scan them all at once. It leaves me with a lot of very - VERY - high resolution images with between 3 and 9 photos all in one JPG file, but I then crop them all out in Photoshop. The main thing is getting them scanned. Once they're on the computer, you can do what you want with them. Also, I tend to have them scanned a bit flat on the levels so that all the available darks, mids, and highs are captured and can be properly edited. https://www.flickr.com/gp/frostfamily417/9d8E1X
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by Ron Hunter » Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:19 pm
Thanks everyone. I got a 50% off deal from ScanMyPhotos for 600dpi scans of 1800 photos, along with their "photo soap" enhancement service and a USB drive with the photos, all for about $180 after the coupon.
Yes I could have done it myself, but it would have taken forever and I probably would have just given up at some point. Now I can just pull the photos into Lightroom and have fun!
I'll share my experience with them after everything is said and done.
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by Chuck Engels » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:08 pm
Sounds good Ron, looking forward to your review of their services
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