Scanning 35mm negatives is easy for most modern labs (I work at one, see my other post). That's how we do all prints anyways, it's just a matter of selecting whether or not a CD will be written. Our store does 'em for 24 cents per image.
As a photo lab tech, I occasionally get giant batches of photos or slides to digitze. We have an Epson 4870, which has incredible resolution and Digital ICE built in. Most of the time we just put as many photos as will fit on the scanner and set the selection to scan them all individually at sufficient resolution to get a good 4x6. You typically need a 5mb file to get a 300ppi 4x6, so you'll need to set your resolution to a level that will yield at least that size. Smaller photos will require a higher scanning resolution. Digital ICE will clean up some of the dust and scratches, but not all of them, and can sometimes double your scanning time.
Once I feel like I have a good amount of photos to work with in Photoshop, I crop them all, usually manually, and then I create a few actions for color correction, exposure/contrast, dust and scratch cleanup, and sharpening. Usually Auto-Color Correction and Auto Levels will work just fine, but sometimes you need to do some fine tuning. You can either use these actions on each of the photos individually, or you can batch-process all of them at once.
While I would love to have an Automatic Document Feeder, I don't think we get enough of that business to justify the expense.
You combine syllables into the appropriate character for the word your looking for. If you have a homonym (word that sounds the same, but means something different), you usually get a little popup window that gives you a list to choose the character you're looking for.
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Scanning 35mm negatives is easy for most modern labs (I work at one, see my other post). That's how we do all prints anyways, it's just a matter of selecting whether or not a CD will be written. Our store does 'em for 24 cents per image.
As a photo lab tech, I occasionally get giant batches of photos or slides to digitze. We have an Epson 4870, which has incredible resolution and Digital ICE built in. Most of the time we just put as many photos as will fit on the scanner and set the selection to scan them all individually at sufficient resolution to get a good 4x6. You typically need a 5mb file to get a 300ppi 4x6, so you'll need to set your resolution to a level that will yield at least that size. Smaller photos will require a higher scanning resolution. Digital ICE will clean up some of the dust and scratches, but not all of them, and can sometimes double your scanning time. Once I feel like I have a good amount of photos to work with in Photoshop, I crop them all, usually manually, and then I create a few actions for color correction, exposure/contrast, dust and scratch cleanup, and sharpening. Usually Auto-Color Correction and Auto Levels will work just fine, but sometimes you need to do some fine tuning. You can either use these actions on each of the photos individually, or you can batch-process all of them at once. While I would love to have an Automatic Document Feeder, I don't think we get enough of that business to justify the expense.
You combine syllables into the appropriate character for the word your looking for. If you have a homonym (word that sounds the same, but means something different), you usually get a little popup window that gives you a list to choose the character you're looking for.