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[wig]

I'm getting ready scan a bunch of old photos, primarily for viewing in MC's Theater View. I've never done much any high-volume scanning, and I wondered if anyone had advice, links, etc, for the best method of scanning, naming and tagging photos? I currently use the Year\Album view scheme, but many of the photos I'll be scanning have partial or missing date information.

[dcwebman]

If you're talking MANY old photos, I can recommend one of these services. I used both of them to get rid of my 8 photo albums. When you consider how much your time is worth, it was a no-brainer. The first is fastest (the day they receive your photos they'll ship them out too) and cheaper, but the second gives you higher quality scans.

http://www.scanmyphotos.com

http://www.scancafe.com

[Lasse_Lus]

glynor wrote about vuescan some time ago, i tried and it changed my (scan) life forever http://www.hamrick.com/ thanks a lot glynor 

[wig]

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to try a feed scanner to quickly scan my photos. They won't be very high quality (600 dpi jpgs) but they will be digitized where I can tag them in MC (with an assist, perhaps, from Picasa). Thanks to the magic of MC and stacking, I can always archival quality versions of the crucial pics at a later date.