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I literally have thousands of vintage family photos from grandma, and am in the process of scanning and scrapping.

I scan multiples in - saves time for me. I do use a higher dpi, because when I use photos, I like to blow them up a good bit.

I sort pics first into categories - one stack for a certain event, one stack of gen photos for each person, or place, that kind of thing. Then I scan photos in together, as many as I can fit on scanner bed without overlap.

I don't separate the photo scans until I use them. That way, I save the time it would take to separate and save each photo, file folders are smaller, and when I do go to scrap them, one or two large scans holds all the photos I need for a particular layout.

Hope this helps you.
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[quote name='scrappylibrarian' post='52883' date='Jul 21 2006, 01:09 PM']Does it really save time since you have to go in and separate them later? Just looking for some input. Thanks as always![/quote]

Some graphics programs such as PSE can automatically seperate images scanned together. Works pretty well too, not perfect, but faster than doing it by hand.
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[quote name='sfcgijill' post='52891' date='Jul 21 2006, 01:39 PM']I literally have thousands of vintage family photos from grandma, and am in the process of scanning and scrapping.

I scan multiples in - saves time for me. I do use a higher dpi, because when I use photos, I like to blow them up a good bit.

I sort pics first into categories - one stack for a certain event, one stack of gen photos for each person, or place, that kind of thing. Then I scan photos in together, as many as I can fit on scanner bed without overlap.

I don't separate the photo scans until I use them. That way, I save the time it would take to separate and save each photo, file folders are smaller, and when I do go to scrap them, one or two large scans holds all the photos I need for a particular layout.

Hope this helps you.[/quote]

I was also considering starting this chore, but was going to do the separate thing, now that I read your post this makes more sense to me. :hit-head-with-hammer: TFS - BTW what dpi do you scan at?
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Guest sfcgijill
I scan at 700 dpi, makes for slower scans and large files, but then I can enlarge quite a bit - many of the photos are quite small. Be sure to keep the scanner bed spotlessly clean at this dpi because everythign WILL show.

When scanning an 8x10, I scan at 400 dpi.

Overkill, I know, but it beats having to go back and find the original photo and rescan because I didn't have it at a high enough dpi to enlarge to what I want. Bonus - some of the photos reveal incredible details when enlarged - I was able to trace family jewelry and other heirlooms that appeared in the pics.


Plus, I burn files onto DVD, not CD because capacity is larger.

Always happy to help!!
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