Comments on: How to Scan Photographs

on 9/23/2008 If you have hundreds or thousands of photos, flatbed scanning will be a real time-waster. Besides, you have to find a good scanner, buy it, figure it out, get a feel for the different software and then sit scanning forever. For the price of the scanner alone, you could already get between 500-1,000 pictures scanned with a decent service. Local stores like Walgreens are too expensive for large quantities.

Try to find a local, specialized place so you don't have to ship your only copies out for scanning. For example, here in Chicago, there's a place called The Digital Convert ( http://www.TheDigitalConvert.com ) that has good prices and does photo albums as well. There are plenty of places available online if you don't mind shipping your photos, although few will do photo albums without gouging you.

on 3/17/2006 If you don't have a scanner and need to have a document in you computer, take a picture of it with your digital camera and then just upload it to your computer!

You can do it with old pictures, too. The resolution is excellent!