My mum has a collection of photos that I want to digitise for her, approx 1200 6x4", mostly from 80s-90s. Intend to reprint 60% in 6x4" and 10% in larger size physically. Have a few questions if someone can clarify?
I will get a second hand photo scanner for this one time purpose only, how important is the specification of the scanner if it'll be AI enhanced/upscaled, and ran through a mass job of boosting contrast/clarity/etc in Lightroom?
Following up on the above, since it's quite a time tax, how important is scan quality for each photo, 3mins/photo vs 45sec/photo?
Tried a demo of Gigapixel AI by Topaz Labs and I'm pretty impressed, but the result seems "too good" for some examples, the time correct potato nostalgia is lost in translation. I obviously won't go through each photo one by one, is there an alternative that gives more granular control of how much "recovery" which to apply? (I ought to mention due to qty, it has to be offline software only)
Any other tips would be greatly appreciated for this big task. Thank you kindly!
I'd see if a company has a machine that will scan them through a straight path automated document feeder. Scanning 1200 sheets on a flatbed scanner = yikes.
No chance she kept the negatives?
Also Photoshop has super resolution feature now which imo does a pretty good job.