Does the thought of scanning in old photos, negatives and slides give you a headache? It just seems overwhelming to me. Until now.
John has gone through most of our old photos (pre-digital) and organized them the last several months, but our question throughout the process has been "how can we best keep them" for the future. Should we scan them ourselves or have a company do that for us? What should we do with the negatives? What about slides (from the dark ages)? :-)
This 8 minute video - "How to Quickly Digitize Photos, Slides and Negatives" just popped up this morning on my feed and it may be the answer! Using your phone along with setting up a little jig allows you to scan photos at a fairly rapid rate using an app called Photomyne. There is a cost associated with using it, but you could pay for one month just to try it out OR to scan like crazy and get all your photos scanned!
Two additional apps you may want or need:
Filmbox for negatives
SlideScan for slides
For several years, I've been using Google PhotoScan which is a GREAT free photo scanning app for your phone if you just need to scan in an occasional photo. It's a great tool, but just not as quick as PhotoMyne and it doesn't do negatives and slides.
Happy scanning!
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