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  1. W

    35mm Slide Scan Metadata and Organization advice

    I finally decided to digitize my fathers slide collection (40 kodak Carousels). I'm using an Epson Perfection 2400 photo with a 4 slide tray. Epson's software works on Windows XP so I created a Virtual Machine with XP got the scanner working. The slides are scanned at 2400 DPI TIFFs. I use a...
  2. C

    scan resolution and relationship to screen and print appearance

    I'm planning a large scanning project, and I'm trying to wrap my brain about the relationship between scan resolution and how the images will appear when printed or viewed on a large and/or high resolution screen. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some things (many?) in my understanding of how these...
  3. Paul_DS256

    Re: Victoria's Newsletter Topic "Lightroom Tip - Getting old photos into Lightroom"

    I'm presently undertaking this project. Based on some threads in these forums, and on the net, I've taken a modified approach to speed things up. This has been driven by the challenge of 'culling' pictures. If the old pictures are your own, then you can easily make a decision if you want to...
  4. OogieM

    Kodak Scanza scanner?

    Has anyone played with this? Not for archival scans at 14-22megapixels, JPEG only, tethers to LightRoom fairly inexpensive But might be good for those can't bear to delete/trash but near duplicates. Wondergin if anyone has one and tried it and can comment on plusses and minuses.
  5. Michael Naylor

    Library module Multiple Tabbed Views

    If only the Library module offered tabs. For over a year now, I've been trying to figure out dates & places for thousands of scanned photos. Trying to guess the ages of people is much easier if I compare images side be side, but this is extremely tedious using Quick Collection. A much better...
  6. NJHeart2Heart

    Roll Call - Those using Lightroom to manage scanned photos

    Hi all, Visiting again after a long hiatus from Lightroom centric activities. This is not so much a call for help as it is a call for those sharing the same types of challenges due to the less standardized process of scanning physical photos. I'm back at my long term family history photo...
  7. D

    Looking for plug-in or tip to rename sequential photos

    Hello. I am scanning a collection of vintage postcards, most with messages and mailing information on one side and the image on the other. My scans result in sequential filenames that I can rename on import to LR, so that the front (picture) side is always an odd number 0001 and the...
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