4/22/2011

How To Digitize Photos For Personal Use

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.

The very first thing you will need to do to get started is to turn on your laptop or desktop. The next thing will be to make sure that all of your photos are organized in a specific order. This can be by name, type or the date it was taken. This is done because it makes the process a lot quicker than just randomly scanning pictures that are scattered all over the place.

After successfully ordering your images you can then install or load the scanning software from the computer.Be sure to create file folder for you images groups. This can be done manually or let the software do this but it all depends, some programs will do it for you automatically. When you have done this, lift the top to the scanner and place your photo face down on the platen.

You can now lower the lid to the scanner and begin the scanning process from the device itself or the CPU. When the file is complete you can save the file and go to the next image and so on until all of them are complete.

Many software programs give you the option of viewing you scanned object before saving it in case if it is crooked or for editing purposes during later use. If your photo is to your liking you can save it to one of the blank folders you created earlier. When saving the option of choosing a save format will come up and when it does you should save your file as a 'TIF' image.

After complete your last image you can either leave them on your computer or print them out and share with your friends and family.

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