Copying Old Photos (shots, printer, snapshot, light)

[cindycat]

I have some color snapshots from 1971. I want to share them with a museum. Will I hurt them by scanning or printing them on my printer? I'm concerned about the bright light they'll be exposed to. Thanks.

[sanspeur]

On the contrary, once you have them on the computer it is amazing what you can do with them. Here is a old photo of mine from the 70s...I spent about five minutes on it after scanning it into the computer.

Before..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/pugbug/Ex1.jpg (broken link)

After...

[calif]

Good to know. What does hurt them is trying to get them out of the darned photo albums from back in the day.

[ImRandy]

Yeah, those sticky albums that were all the rage back then really suck.

[AksarbeN]

Sanspeur,,,, great answer and your example posted was perfect. I tried giving you another rep for that post but couldn’t.

Looks like I’m going to try and copy/scan more of the old’ photo album shots and fix them up. Too many have color problems just like what you’ve shown.