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Looks like VueScan is known pretty decently. I'll try it out.

I was thinking a lossless format but now I'm thinking that these are pictures that were developed by someone and have aged, gotten dust on them and faded. I don't think a lossy format would hurt it that much. I know for most of the pictures I'll be scanning I will be also scanning the film negatives which I would carefully clean and use a lossless format on definitely.

I just scanned a regular photo at 2400 DPI and into PNG format and it came out just shy of 240MB which is gonna be unacceptable. I Googled and it seems a lot of people recommend at least 300 DPI so I did a second scan at 600 DPI and JPG format and it came out at about 1.5MB.

I want to do PNG but Windows Live Photo Gallery can't "autofix" in PNG format, only JPG I think. I know this isn't a "proper" thing to do but I do plan on keeping up to 4 versions of the same photograph (film negative, fixed film negative, developed scan, fixed developed scan) thus leaving me with absolute originals. These pictures were not taken by professionals with professional equipment, some are probably even disposable cameras so the quality, focus and coloring might not be great. There's also a pretty significant quantity and using Photoshop to fix the photos seems to be tedious and Windows Live Photo Gallery seems to do a pretty alright job with it's autofix.

I'm still in the trial phase, I haven't broken out the main pictures nor cleaned off the scanner but I do know that I will keep original scans un-modified and at least 600 DPI.

I know Blueblaster will reply with a very knowledgeable answer to this but I figured I would add to the forums post count so here goes...

I'm scanning old photos (will be from developed paper and film negatives) to get them in a digital format for archiving instead of letting the paper fade and whatnot. I'm going through the formats: jpg, tiff, gif and png. I read a little and it appears that PNG is like FLAC where it finds like areas and compresses them instead of compressing the actual data, PNG is compressed lossless? Am I right on that? I'm thinking out of those options that PNG would be my best bet as TIFF can get ridiculously large and JPG is well... lossy.

I'm gonna put on my Christian face with the family like every other holiday. I hate holidays  :'(

Same. Holidays are pointless.

Holidays  :-\

FYI, you don't have to have the "&feature=player_embedded" on videos.

That was the name of the episode.

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Moved pics to first post, added some new ones and renamed files.

That was a great one. She's preggers now which sucks but she's got some great curves going