"Digital pictures can remain as perfect a thousand years from now as they are today," Lester Lefkowitz, author and photographer
- Have someone else do the scanning (at scaneasy123.com we will scan your photos for you, just ask us for a quote)
- "If you have the negative of a picture—and a good quality scanner—scan the negative, not the print," advises Lefkowitz. "The negative will give you a sharper result."
- Don't correct the color, sharpness, or other attributes of the picture while scanning.
- Take a copy of the scan to edit, then archive the original scan as a TIFF (TIFF (originally standing for Tagged Image File Format) is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general.)
- Even if the photo is black and white, set the scanner to color. This will result in a scan that you can decide to tint later if you wish.
Resources
Video: youtube.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignin,
http://www.universityproducts.com/resources.php?m=how_to_detail&id=4,
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/preserving_photos.html,
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/family-archives/preserving-family-papers.html
http://scaneasy123.com/flip-pal%20scanner.html,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XY0h4NVbqks#!
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