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rchansen

rchansen

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Years ago I spent months scanning ALL the photos from my parents house of my brother and I growing up. My Dad spent months scanning all of my grandparents photos - both his parents and my mom's parents. Now I am starting to scan all the photos my MIL has of her five kids growing up. My SIL and I are making an album for my MIL's 70th birthday. :) Love the end results of having all of our photos digitally but scanning is not fun!!
 
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
 
MrsPeel said:
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
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I hadn't even thought of doing this! I still have so many photos of my older children growing up that I have put off scanning because it seems to take forever. Now I have a new summer project!! I'd love more info, Cynthia @MrsPeel
 
MrsPeel said:
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
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I saw something about a box for using your Iphone -- not really a box more of a stand. The Iphone 6 takes pretty good pics and I've been thinking about trying. Or using a scanning service. But even at 300 dpi, the scanned photos aren't as good as I thought they would be.
 
MrsPeel said:
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
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That would be awesome!

I scanned in some childhood photos of me and my hubby and some photos of grandparents years ago....but there's still more to do. Taking photos seems way easier!
 
Yes, what Cynthia said. Check out Heirloom, it's an app for your phone! There is also Shoebox from Ancestry.com. Good Luck getting them all in, it will be worth it!
 
MrsPeel said:
@IntenseMagic @carilyne & @Scrapping with Liz I'll write some detailed account of what I do... it really is well worth it!!! Jenn Maybe we can join knowledge and write a post? I write to you tomorrow but we could put it together after iNSD... @jk703

I'm on my way to try sleep as it's 03:24am already here :)
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Yes please!

I ended up doing that with an art journal page and then later heard that it was better than scanning, but I'm not sure about specifics. I was just winging it, and would love more detailed instructions. :)
 
I have a scanning app on my iPhone. It's called Photomyne. It cost me $5, but it's works great. I've been able to scan pictures that I found at relative's homes easily. I guess it basically takes a photo, but it also crops and edits.
 
I took a ridiculous amount of my first 2 kids and I have SO many pictures to scan. We didn't go digital until our 3rd was born. My poor boys don't have nearly as many baby/toddler/preschool layouts as their sister.

Ho hum....someday.
 
MrsPeel said:
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
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I would love a tutorial!
 
MrsPeel said:
a tip?
if you have a DSLR, takling photos of the photos will give you a much, much better, bigger, more detailed file, so if you want to print in the future, or even for digital, it looks a LOT better.
I did that for all my daughter's 8 first years of life, which I scrapped in 7 books, which I then printed.
Scanning gives you a smaller file, not as detailed as taking the photos would. Is a bit more work, but, if you decide to go for it, I ll explain you how to get the best digital results, how to take the photos ...

or if anyone is interested, let me know and I make a thread or even a tutorial!!!!
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Very interested. My mother passed away in December and I brought home all of her albums! I would love to "scan" some of the photos for my sisters!
 
Ugh. I just finished scanning negatives, so I feel your pain! I'm really sad though because a lot of the negatives had degraded over the years and disappeared.
And I have to figure out how to capture the 110 negatives.
 
Good for you for taking that on! I've scanned and just photographed some important ones but not many. There are a few pics from my childhood (and from my parents' and grandparents' lives) that I'd love to digitally capture.

My thing is figuring out how to digitally copy some old 8mm home films my grandpa took when my mom and her siblings were kids. I don't have any of the equipment to run the films, much less transfer them to a computer.
 
Tree City said:
My thing is figuring out how to digitally copy some old 8mm home films my grandpa took when my mom and her siblings were kids. I don't have any of the equipment to run the films, much less transfer them to a computer.
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There's a couple of scanning places that will do that for you. We bought a home kit to transfer vhs to DVD, and were bummed by the quality. So we are planning on sending them out now.
 
@MrsPeel reminded me of my use of the camera instead of the scanner when I wanted to make digital backups of my hand-written journals from childhood to young adulthood a couple of years ago. I have two boxes full of these journals. I spent a month a couple of years ago taking photos of every full page spread and the front covers. I did it on my backyard deck where I would have good even lighting, laying the journal on a solid color towel underneath my camera, which I attached to a tripod. The tripod made it easy because once I had it set up, I just needed to turn the page, hit the shutter, turn the page, hit the shutter . . .

Now that I think about it, a remote for the camera would have allowed me to stay seated instead of getting up and down repeatedly between turning pages and hitting the shutter -- though it was good exercise! :D
 
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