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The negatives I sent to ScanCafe have been scanned! For those of you who haven't been following along, ScanCafe is a negative scanning service I am testing anonymously with a shoebox of wedding negatives I've had lying around since 1997. I sent my negatives to them on November 9th, scanning [...]
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Scanning progress continues. The process may be going slowly---although, I personally don't care... these negatives have been in storage for 12 years---but ScanCafe does an excellent job of keeping you in the loop. They let me know that a technician had opened my box and was actually starting to scan [...]
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Following up on my previous post about scanning some old negatives with ScanCafe. I dragged my feet and didn't send them in until this past Monday. I was able to snag a 20% discount though so my total estimate for scanning 200 medium format negs came to $204.20 ($0.99 ea [...]
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Can't afford Photoshop? Can't justify the expense? What do you need in a good photo editor anyway? To me, the absolute essential features necessary for any photo editing app are:
Layers and layer masks (alpha editing). These features let you selectively apply edits and filters to portions of the image that [...]
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After a bunch of failed attempts with my ancient el cheapo scanner, I've decided to have a bunch of old medium format negatives (120/220) scanned professionally. I've all but decided on ScanCafe---haven't pulled the trigger yet. Great prices... $0.99 each for medium format negatives. But even better, they'll scan all 200 [...]
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