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Post by pas2 on May 5, 2016 8:46:52 GMT
After reading the post about removing photos from albums and putting them back into boxes I started thinking about my stash of actual photos. I have put all my photos (pre digital camera) in albums chronologically awaiting to be scrapped. I have realized how often my kids like to pull their old pics out to scan to post on FB or such and thought how they couldn't do that if they were scrapped. Many photos I have scanned in order to edit them in some way and I'm glad I did. I also have a few (ok many) boxes of duplicates that I got back after my parents passed away. I'm thinking of scanning some of those too and just get rid of the hard copies that take up so much room.
So does anyone else scan their originals before scrapping them? Have you gotten rid of your duplicates?
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Post by anniefb on May 5, 2016 8:49:44 GMT
Yes, I scan my pre-digital pics before scrapping them, particularly because I often reprint them in different sizes for layouts.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 5, 2016 11:39:43 GMT
I do scan all my pre-digital pics. But I never get rid of the originals. I can't bring myself to do it.
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Post by Linda on May 5, 2016 12:01:01 GMT
I do scan non-digital photos but I typically scrap the original - I didn't when I first started scrapping but I decided that I could always make a new copy (from the scan) if I needed one.
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Post by myboysnme on May 5, 2016 12:22:45 GMT
I do not scan photos unless I need a copy for something or want to upload it, like to ancestry.com.
Now as to the supposition that they can;t be removed, I use herma dotto repositionable and I can pop those pics in and out of my albums with almost no effort. I have pulled pics scrapped years ago to use for funeral memory boards, my kid's high school year book ad, etc. I also only use adhesive toward the center of my pics so I can get my hand under there and pop it off. If there is any paper tearing at all it will be covered when I put the photo back.
You can also scan your layout if you need the photo and then crop just around the photo.
I do not toss the printed photos. That is what I scrapbook. Duplicates, maybe. If I took the time to scan all my photos predigital I would never have a minute left to scrapbook at all. I'd spend the rest of my life scanning.
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Post by LisaDV on May 5, 2016 13:14:06 GMT
I generally scrap the original. I don't have a lot of photos from pre-digital. My pre-digital camera days, always offered a disc with the photos on them when you received your prints and I always took that option. Before that was an option, I didn't take many photos. The exception would be heritage photos.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 5, 2016 15:14:09 GMT
I don't have too many predigital pics either, but most of the ones I have I either have negatives or the images on CD as well so they could be reprinted if needed. Last spring I got all of my mom's photos after she passed away and I did scan all of those. My sister helped me sort them out by who was in them, I batch scanned them and gave the originals back to whoever was in them with the exception being pics with everybody in them (I kept all of those). My thought was that I could make a CD with all of the scanned images for anyone who wanted one, and if I wanted a print of one of the pics I gave back at some point, I would be able to do it in whatever size works for me. I also had all of DH's childhood pics scanned by a service and put onto a DVD. They were on slide film and there were hundreds of them, so there was no way I was going to scan all of them one by one.  |
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Post by streetscrapper on May 5, 2016 17:32:57 GMT
Always. Mainly because I want to fix the picture so that it looks better given that my pre-digital photography skills were less than impressive! Sometimes I keep the original in a photo box, other times after it's scanned I pitch it. No need to have a hard copy that no one will look at...
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Post by lisae on May 5, 2016 19:40:59 GMT
I scan older photos and then scrap the originals. I even scrap the old Polaroids because I like the look but definitely have a scanned copy.
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Post by amom23 on May 5, 2016 21:06:12 GMT
All of my pre-digital photos have already been scrapped years ago so none of them were scanned. It's not something I think about. In the rare case I've needed to make a copy of a scrapped photo it's been easy enough to remove it from the album.
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Post by nitad on May 5, 2016 21:51:20 GMT
I recently finished getting old photos out of sticky albums and on to cardstock (not scrapped-just as is). I scanned the ones I thought were important but not all of them. That would have taken me far too long and I find the scanning very tedious.
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Post by justjac on May 6, 2016 4:57:54 GMT
I don't scrap a lot of predigital photos either. I did a book for my dad with some of his old photos and I didn't even think of scanning the photos first.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on May 6, 2016 5:20:26 GMT
I have scanned my childhood photos mostly so I can reprint at any size. I have kept all the originals as well. I wish I had scanned in photos when I first started scrapping as many of my uni and post uni photos are cut into unsalvageable shapes and reprints from negatives are expensive.
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Post by katieanna on May 6, 2016 12:55:20 GMT
I do scan all my pre-digital pics. But I never get rid of the originals. I can't bring myself to do it.  , although I haven't scanned all of my pre-digi photos (way too many of them). But if I decide to use any of the photos for a LO, I always scan and print first. |
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, although I haven't scanned all of my pre-digi photos (way too many of them). But if I decide to use any of the photos for a LO, I always scan and print first.