Scanning photos for slide shows

[Diane802]

The worst part of doing a slideshow for me is scanning piles of photos. Is anyone aware of a scanner that you can load a stack of photos into and it will automatically scan it? Someone at the conference in Austin mentioned that Kodak has one that retails for $1,700

Does anyone have any time saving tips they use to scan their photos?

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

I place as many pictures as I can on the scanner bed, then slice up the results in Photoshop for individual pics.

There's a service that will take a box of photos and scan them for you, and if I'm remembering correctly, the price isn't bad. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the company. Someone here probably has a better memory than I do.

Personally, I wouldn't invest such a huge amount in an automated scanner unless I expected to increase my own revenue with it.

Barbara

[marmart Profile Private message]

There's a service that will take a box of photos and scan them for you, and if I'm remembering correctly, the price isn't bad. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the company. Someone here probably has a better memory than I do.



Barbara

This is the company that scans them at a reasonable price.

http://www.scanmyphotos.com/


Mary

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

That's it! Mary, can I hire you to be my memory?

Barbara

[marmart Profile Private message]

That's it! Mary, can I hire you to be my memory?

Barbara

Ahhhh, that may not be such a good idea Barbara!! But maybe between the 2 of us, we would be OK.

Mary

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Okay, you can remember everything from A through M, and I'll take N through Z.

Barbara

[heckydog Profile Private message]

I have an Epson 2480 Photo Scanner and it has an option to select more than one photo to scan at a time. I'm sure many other scanners would have this ability.

You put as many photos on the scanner as will fit. Then you select each one and draw a marquee around it. The scanner will scan each one until they're done. No need to do any cropping afterwards.

[DickK Profile Private messageWebsite]

Photoshop Elements (and probably other editors) has an option to extract individual images from a multi-image scan automagically so that's yet another option.
Dick

[Diane802]

Thank you to everyone for your replies!