Scannning pics question

[JohnH]

I'm in the middle of scanning pics for my uncle's service this week.
I think I'm doing it wrong, I scan each pic by itself. It's probably better to put as many as will fit then make a large file and chop them up, because this is taking forever doing it the way I am. What do you guys do?

JH

[Tulio]

What is the end-use for your scans?

If you are printing photos, you probably do not need to scan them at the highest resolution.

If you are going to use them on a web-page, then you don't need the highest resolution that your scanner can produce.

At higher resolution scans, these will take forever, and the same goes if the size of the scan is large.

I scan my photos one by one, but then again I am not working on a deadline as you are now.

The only time I scan four or six at once, is when I am scanning slides or negatives.

I wish I could be of more assistance.

Saludos,


Tulio

[JohnH]

Thanks Tulio. I'm going to print copies at a drugstore, then take them to Canada, buy a poster board and paste them to it. I saw this at a friend's dad's funeral a few months ago and thought it was amazing to see all the pics on one board.


JH

[bdk]

You could put a bunch of photos on the bed of the scanner, then scan each individually by cropping the others out. I think that printing out 4 small photos at the drugstore is a lot cheaper than printing out one large photo incorporating all 4 at once.

For a 4x6 photo you could probably get by with a resolution of 150 dpi (dots per inch) and it would look good.

The scanning will be real slow if you are at maximum resolution.

If your photos are black and whites you can scan them in "greyscale" and the file size will be smaller, but I'm not sure how much faster this will be.