I tend to scan a bunch of photos and then forget about it for months and struggle to remember what workflow when I return to work on them again! So here’s my workflow.
- Plug in Kodak Slide N Scan
- Select film type
- Select Color negative
- Select 135 film (I guess this is referred to 35 mm?)
- Insert negative into scanner and try and find the date of a photo
- If you find a date, great! Click the home button.
- Select Set Date & Time
- Change month. You can do this by using the sun/left arrow or the rgb/right arrow button to move the number up and down.
- To move over to the day, press the play button.
- If you need to move to the year, press the play button again.
- When done, click the ok/camera button.
- Go back to film type, color negative, 135 film.
- Now start scanning! When you line up a photo in the screen and it looks good, click the ok/camera button. This will save a copy to the SD card you have in the machine. Note: There are bunch of settings that you need to set before first use. I can’t remember the things I changed but I do see that when scanning a photo I’ve selected 22M.
- Continue onto the next photo. Make sure it’s the same date. Continue scanning photos until you get to a photo that has a new date.
- Press home button and change the date again. Then go back to scan the photo. This is important to imprint the date into the metatag data which will be used to upload to Google Photos.
- Let’s say you’re done with a batch of photos and you want to color correct them.
- Press home button.
- Select Usb upload and click the ok/camera button.
- This will now allow you to access the photos saved on the SD directly from the machine that is plugged into your computer. TECHNICALLY, you don’t need to use the computer if all you are doing is saving photos to the SD card. But in my case, I want to transfer them.
- I usually transfer them in batches. Let’s say I have a bunch from a specific date. Copy them over to your folder that you want to save them to.
- Then you’re going to want to color correct them in the software gimp.
- Open gimp and drag the photos in.
- With a photo selected, go to Colors and then Auto and then White Balance. Chances are, you will see a big difference!
- Go to File and then Overwrite xxxxx.jpg. The xxxxx will be the filename of the jpg that you are modifying.
- An export window pops up. I just used the defaults which had 95 at the top.
- When the export is complete you can click the x on the photo and move to the next one.
- It will ask you if you want to save changes. Just click discard changes.
- When you’re done with your batch, it’s time to back them up to Google Photos.
- Open Google Photos and drag whatever photos you want to upload.
- While you’re at it, make an album and share with friends! Also, make sure it uploaded correctly by the date.