terriscrapper Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Has anyone tried restoring old paper scrapbooks? If so did you scan in the pictures and set to jpeg at 300 dpi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRS Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I haven't done this before, but I would scan them in and set the jpeg to 300 dpi. I've taken photos out of old photo albums and done it this way, but not paper scrapbooks. But now that I think about it, my grandmother's album was photos just attached to paper pages, and I just scanned in the pages and cropped out the photos. I didn't dare try to take the photos off the pages in that album! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terriscrapper Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 2 hours ago, CRS said: I haven't done this before, but I would scan them in and set the jpeg to 300 dpi. I've taken photos out of old photo albums and done it this way, but not paper scrapbooks. But now that I think about it, my grandmother's album was photos just attached to paper pages, and I just scanned in the pages and cropped out the photos. I didn't dare try to take the photos off the pages in that album! Thanks Carla!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-M Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I agree with Carla.... scan the old pages and then crop out the photos which I have been doing lately with my mother's old albums. I have my scanner set at 400dpi as that helps with picking up fine details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celestine Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 3 hours ago, A-M said: I agree with Carla.... scan the old pages and then crop out the photos which I have been doing lately with my mother's old albums. I have my scanner set at 400dpi as that helps with picking up fine details. Thanks for that tip. I had done some at 300 dpi and wasn't pleased, so good to hear 400 dpi works well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsendi Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Linda Sattgast in one of her latest videos, mentioned that she scans old photos at 600 dpi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikelle Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I use my Flip Pal to scan photos, and I’ve got it set to 600 dpi. I agree, for old paper photos, 600 dpi picks up detail much better than 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celestine Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I'll have to experiment with this some more. A 600 dpi scan runs reallllyyyy sllloooowww on my scanner. Plus the memory storage might become an issue. Have others experimented in the 300 to 600 dpi range for scanning older images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsendi Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 I have, and I do like 600dpi results better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindarobin Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Scanning at 300 dpi is fine for large photos, 5x7 and up. Scan at 400 dpi or higher for those really small photos like 2x2. These suggestions are for printing, should you wish to print the files. However, if you only want to have digital copies to see on computer or tablet screen, you can scan at 72 or 150 dpi. That will save a lot on file space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariJ Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 16 hours ago, lindarobin said: Scanning at 300 dpi is fine for large photos, 5x7 and up. Scan at 400 dpi or higher for those really small photos like 2x2. These suggestions are for printing, should you wish to print the files. However, if you only want to have digital copies to see on computer or tablet screen, you can scan at 72 or 150 dpi. That will save a lot on file space. This is very helpful, thank you Linda. Somehow I’ve never realized that of course the smaller the photo the larger the printing dpi should be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terriscrapper Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 Well now that was very interesting!! Thanks for everyone's reply......This is an old sorority paper scrap book...not sure how easy it will be to take apart....some of the paper is tearing....hate to destroy it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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