Hi there, with the recent weather events in the country I feel like it would be a good idea to ‘backup’ and digitalise some physical photos.
I’ve looked online and there were suggestions on just taking a photo with your phone or an app or just scanning the photos with a scanner?
Has anyone here digitised printed photos? Any advice on how to best do this?
Thanks in advance
Advice on Digitising Printed Photos
Martz5 on 20/02/2023 - 10:04
Comments
There are many apps which can do it. I have used Photoscan app from google and has worked well. Especially having google photos as my main storage, this works well and easy to organize them.
+1 for this. The tool works really well and is free - easy to master in about 5mins and you can do it with phone and whip through once you get good about 3-4 photos a minute, and you can adjust the shape etc all very easily. Whereas other methods i tried, like scanning etc - all was to much fluffing about and quite slow and then crooked etc .
Best way to achieve excellent digital photos is, mount the phone at desired height with camera facing downwards on some sort of stand or holder. Make sure you have minimum glare on the photo and it's well lit room. You will be amazed how good the app is and I doubt you will get anything better than this.
I have scanned photos with a auto-fed scanner before - works very easily. You just need to sort the photos into 6 x 4 / 7 x 5 etc and do a batch all the same size, setting the scanner config appropriately to what you want (I just went for max resolution - 1200dpi I think, and set it to 6 x 4 so each scan was the whole photo and nothing else).
I understand you can also get negative scanners which I have heard work even better, but I've not tried those myself.