Multiple scans from one preview?

[falsedawn2]

I'm using an Epson Perfection 1650 Photo scanner and Adobe Photoshop
Album 2.0 to scan thousands of family photos. Many are small, so I am
able to place up to 8 photos on the glass at a time. It would be nice
if I could do one Preview and then scan each photo individually
without a separate Preview for each photo. I hope I'm being clear - I
want to do a Preview, scan the first photo, return to the same
Preview, scan a second photo, etc. Can I do that? If not, are there
products which permit it?

Thanks
John

 

[Kennedy McEwen]

I'm using an Epson Perfection 1650 Photo scanner and Adobe Photoshop
Album 2.0 to scan thousands of family photos. Many are small, so I am
able to place up to 8 photos on the glass at a time. It would be nice
if I could do one Preview and then scan each photo individually
without a separate Preview for each photo. I hope I'm being clear - I
want to do a Preview, scan the first photo, return to the same
Preview, scan a second photo, etc. Can I do that?

No problem. Manual scan mode. Preview the entire frame with all 8
images. Select the image you want using the crop tool. Select the
resolution you want for the image then press "Scan". When complete,
select the next image you want using the crop tool, change the
resolution if necessary (eg. it might be a bigger or smaller image than
the first) and press "Scan" again. Continue selecting the images you
want with the crop tool and scanning until complete - no need to preview
each one.

 

[Wayne Fulton]

I'm using an Epson Perfection 1650 Photo scanner and Adobe Photoshop
Album 2.0 to scan thousands of family photos. Many are small, so I am
able to place up to 8 photos on the glass at a time. It would be nice
if I could do one Preview and then scan each photo individually
without a separate Preview for each photo. I hope I'm being clear - I
want to do a Preview, scan the first photo, return to the same
Preview, scan a second photo, etc. Can I do that? If not, are there
products which permit it?

That should not be an issue. Preview is the quickest part of it, but
your way seems preferable to final scanning the full bed, and then
subdividing the final image (because that latter way, the entire bed
content data affects processing of all images as a group, and they may
not be even similar to each other, may have missing gap area between
them, etc. It is the latter way that makes one cringe <g>).

The Preview is always pretty much the full bed anyway, even with only
one small photo on it. So only the currently marked area in the preview
data is used to process auto or manual settings. This repeated way,
only the one photo contents affects the scan parameters of that one
photo.

 

[falsedawn2]

But when I'm doing thousands of photos, that Preview time really adds
up.

Thanks for the rest of your tip.

John

 

[Wayne Fulton]

But when I'm doing thousands of photos, that Preview time really adds
up.

Agreed, no argument, but aligning 8 photos straight also takes time. Some
scanners offer a preview bed length control, so one could set the preview
scan length to be say 4 inches of bed instead of the full bed length. All
models dont, but sometimes it is a preferences menu, or sometimes one can
just grab the bottom line and drag it higher. Anyway, if doing all the
same type of work, preview can go faster than full bed.

 

[Han Schutten]

Good old Agfa Snapscan scanners with ScanWise-2 software automatically
recognized your different photos in 1 preview and made separate
selections for final scanning, and you could manually stop the preview
as soon as it was large enough. It will be no problem to download
ScanWise, but it probably won't work with your scanner.....

 

[Ron G]

The software provided with the new Epson 2580 thumbnails everything on
the panel and offers the option of saving each to a file. Maybe you can
get it and it would work with yours. What I did previously was put
several photos of same size and type (requiring same resolution, etc.)
on the panel and then scan the whole thing into Elements. From there I
just cropped out each image into its own file. Just don't do what I did
one time and forget to change the preview settings so that instead of
scanning the whole panel I only did about a third of it -- and this
after the photos had left the house!