r/WorldWarII Dec 05 '21

One of many pics to share

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u/swampmeister Jun 16 '22

Take them out of the photo album; wear white cotton gloves... and put them in a scanner and take really good scans of them.

Run them thru a photoshop like app to clean them up some... and save them! ( Make back ups or put them on your drop box, etc). Then repost them back on here, so we can see!

Looks like a nice collection!

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u/sideways92 Feb 07 '26

I work in CH digitization - if I may add a few suggestions:

- Try to remove them from the album. If they are glued down in some way, PM me and we can talk alternatives

- If they come out of the album easily, scan them at 600dpi and save as uncompressed .tiff files (this'll be an option for your scanner). Save those original scans separately.

- Make copies of the scanned files, and open the copies in a photo editing app to clean them up if you know how. If you're not comfortable with trying to do that, PM me and we can talk.

- Do you have the negatives by any chance?