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[rdhdsnippet]

Maybe the hive can help...

I'm scanning old family photos, and I have three questions about the process, from a technical standpoint. And oh-by-the-way, I am working on a Mac. Though I could move much of the process to a PC if you gave me a ghost of a reason I needed to, as the scanner is wireless

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1. I guess that makes sense. I could certainly orient the photos differently, but was taking advantage of the fact that the scanner is smart enough to separate different snapshots into different files and do them four at a time. I guess I can live with the file size bloat as long as it's not doing anything else weird.

2. OK, so I'll stick with my 600 for the snapshots, 1200 for paperwork/newspaper clippings, and 2400 for negatives when I get to some. I'm only doing this once, I'd rather err on the side of the quality being higher than I need than lower. My scanner doesn't have a 900dpi setting - I was sort of wishing there was something betwix the two.

3. We have Lightroom actually, as well as a full blown copy of Photoshop, both installed on the iMac and I think possibly on the MacBook. I don't think we have legal copies for Widows any more since I think John transferred the licenses to the Macs, but I'm also not sure my poor laptop could run them anyway. ;) I find Lightroom very difficult to use, but if it'll do the EXIF stuff, I'll figure it out, thank you!