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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Toby on 15 April 2012, 21:48
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So I've been lumbered with importing over 500 photos ( glossy paper form type) and putting them on a cd!
What's the easiest / fastest way to go about this?
I figure tomorrow night will be a long night :undecided:
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What's the easiest / fastest way to go about this?
if you have children give them the job of doing it for a bit of extra pocket money :grin:
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:grin: I'm 21
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:grin: I'm 21
younger brother/sister?
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Don't see them much :sad:
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500 photos! More than one night's work I would say.
You could take them to snappy snaps and pay them to do it.
If they are standard size 6x4inch prints, you can fit 3 on a normal A4 sized scanner, that way you do 3 at once in one pass (each pass takes a long time so this is quicker). If your scanner software is clever it might detect 3 seperate images and save them as 3 files, if not, just save the whole thing and cut up after.
Make sure you scan them at at least 600dpi resolution otherwise they file will be low quality and not suitable for either printing at any size or putting on a screen.
I recently tried to scan some photos I took 7 years ago (these were prints from film) but the printing was so shockingly poor that the scans looked awful, I will have to go back and scan the negatives.
Some photo printing places do it so quick and sloppily that you end up with this issue; I think it's down to the process - process film > scan negatives into computer > print from computer. It should be: develop film > enlarge photo onto paper > fix photo.
This is the old fashioned way to do it.
If they are old photos, then the printing should be fine, but you might have to correct the colours slightly.
Good luck.
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It's his 21 surprise birthday so a lot of the photos are 20 years old lol
With regards to putting them on a disk. Would I scan - save - once iv done them all - save all to disk - then the venue can just press play?
What sort of disk would I be?
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500 photos at say 5Mb each = 2.5Gb = DVD or a flash drive.
So long as the venue has at least Windows XP then it should be able to do a slide show. ie: http://www.pcworld.com/article/113106/create_a_snazzy_slide_show.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/113106/create_a_snazzy_slide_show.html)
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yeah, get boots or some professional photo place to do it for you as 500 photos would take hours if not days.
1 photo could take as long as 5minutes times that by 500 = 2500minutes = 41 hours
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iv got untill saterday :grin: just gone on a big spend up on itunes! so should keep me going tonight! i think ill put 2/3 per scan and do it as more of a collage to save me some time :laugh:
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all done!! clever scanner! 4 photos in at a time sometimes 2! as long as they wasnt touching! it brought them to the comp seperately!
Chuffed! :cool: