Topic: Magic magnetic photo album problem

[Francois]

I am looking for a solution to a small problem.

I have a ton of those awful magic magnetic photo albums (you know, the sticky pages with a plastic overlay) that contain family photos.
I am trying to take out the pictures... only problem, some are really well stuck and I don't want to damage them.
I thought of scanning them all on their page... but I would be at work for what seems like years if I tried to do this.

So, does anybody have a trick to just get the images unstuck?

[lauraburlton]

hmmm, seems like it would be less work to just scan the pages as is, you could just scan the whole page and copy each photo as its own file. That is unless the overlay has a texture or is not completely clear. Because once you take the photos out of the magnetic album, if it is as old as I think it is, it will be impossible to get them back in...

[Francois]

I once did try scanning whole pages. I have to scan through the plastic if I don't want to gum-up the surface of my scanner.
Then I have to cut out every image, rotate them individualy, ajust the curves which are often off, re-crop them.... too long for my taste. The other problem relates to old color print technology. The colores are inside "bubbles"... you scan at over 300 DPI and you get bubble galore... and you can't get rid of them easy...

I'm looking for something easier.

[lauraburlton]

bummer. Well good luck with that, it sounds like its gonna be a lot of work any way you slice it, but it will be worth it to have all of those old photos archived