Friday, April 22, 2011

Learning How To Digitize Photos

By Merle Nixon


Today thanks to modern technology, taking and preserving photos has become a whole lot easier. There are lots of new ways to take take pictures and even more ways to digitize your photos in case of a accident where they are damaged or destroyed.

This is good because the original image could be damaged or destroyed all together so having a digital back up copy or copies is a great thing. The process of digitizing your images is not a hard one at all and the only thing you would need is a good flatbed scanner and a laptop or desktop. The quality of the digital picture depends on the scanner and choosing one with a great quality output is recommended for the best results.

To start this process you will first have to make sure that you laptop or computer is powered on and the scanner is on and ready. You will then have to place all your photos in a set order. You can arrange the by the date they were taken to give you an example. When your images are organized they are easier to scan to the computer without mixing things up.

After you have organized your pictures you can then open up your scanning software from your computer if did not already install it. Before you begin scanning you can create specific folder groups for the images so that they can be further organized. Now you are ready to take you first image and scan it. You will need to lift the lid on the scanner and place your image face down.

now you are ready to press the start button from your scanner to scan. This process should take only a few minutes, so you can relax for a little bit. Once the scanning of your first picture is complete you can remove it and go to the next one.

Depending on what type of software you may have, after scanning an image the computer will prompt you to save the file. If you like the image and it is straight you can now save it as a 'TIFF' image file into one of the folders you created earlier.

The file size may appear large on your hard drive but this is because of the type of file which is perfect for editing. If you want to add effects you can but if not there is an option to convert your image down to a smaller size with the loss of resolution. If you want the extra space though, you can print your photos out and frame them and delete the other files from your computer. From there you can frame your digitize photos or you can make a photo album, the choice is up to you.

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