SR.. I hope you took advantage of the photoshop crop and scan features.. I use it all the time - just throw 4-6 photos on your scanner bed.. use the option via photoshop and it will scan and crop the photos into individual files.. I then bust out an action that saves them all, closes them and stars the scan again. I can do up to 100 an hour based on the scan settings..

Been there Shelleyrae!!!! I scanned 3 of my Granny's albums a few years back. And started one of my mother's albums, but kinda lost steam. It is a big job for sure!

When I was scanning from my Mom's house I scanned into photoshop as Pesto suggested. It was convenient, but my mom's computer isn't as fast as mine and it took longer scanning into photoshop than the program that came with her scanner.

When doing my Granny's albums, I scanned whole pages since she used those horrible sticky albums and the photos were not removable. Which isn't that bad, I just select the page and crop out the photo that I want when I need it.

My new HP photosmart all-in-one scanner/printer is great. It is pretty fast even with the higher resolutions. And the software that comes with it is really handy. I can scan multiple photos and it saves them seperately automatically.

Happy scanning!
Ali

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I've scanned in over 2,500 from all sides of the family over the last few years. Automatically saving them as different files would have been soooo helpful. I scanned as many as I could then later went back and cropped each pic myself. I just found some more of my father's, so I'll keep going. Good luck with your project.

Ah didnt think of an action Pesto - thanks for the tip - my scanner is fairly new (Canon) but only a cheapie model so scanning and saving was a long process really. I used the scanners multi feature which meant I could put half a dozen photos on the scanner bed at once it automatically seperates the scans - hate to think how long it would take scanning singly lol

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Scanning is such a big project and no matter how fast it goes, it seems to take forever!

I just scanned in all my paper books (done!) and burned them to DVDs so I can just move the DVDs instead of the 50lbs of books (letting the movers move them this time). With a baby, a preschooler, two dogs and a husband, I just couldn't lug around another "loved" one this time!

Hope your project came out great!

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