I will digitize a couple of thousand pictures for my family and some of them range from 40-50 years ago, which means they are discolored and blurred.

The scanner I have doesn’t have a good auto processing software (Canon Imageformula R40), it increases the contrast way too much and doesn’t seem to understand that old photos get red with time.

So I was looking at ways to bulk process these images. It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just need to improve a little bit. Does anyone has any tip?

  • AbyssalRedemption@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is a topic that fairly frequently comes up on r/analog (I would know, I started a similar project several months ago and got great advice from over there). You might have more luck asking there.

    • Zocalo_Photo@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I agree.

      I’m in the process of scanning some of my grandpa’s slides that I found after my mom died. Some of them are over 70 years old. I’m not just trying to digitize and store everything. Some of these slides haven’t been seen in many decades, so I’m taking a lot of time touching up and color correcting every one. I’ll probably never finish the project, but it’s fun to send my dad pictures of him as a baby that he’s never seen.

      Like u/mc_louis said, Lightroom is good way to do a lot of the color and lighting edits. I also believe you can copy and paste edits across several similarly exposed images, which would cut down on time. I have Lightroom with my Photoshop subscription and it’s like $10 per month.