Any tips on how to bulk process digitized photos? (alien.top)

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I will digitize a couple of thousand pictures for my family and some of them range from 40-50 years ago, which means they are discolored and blurred.

The scanner I have doesn't have a good auto processing software (Canon Imageformula R40), it increases the contrast way too much and doesn't seem to understand that old photos get red with time.

So I was looking at ways to bulk process these images. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just need to improve a little bit. Does anyone has any tip?

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[-] RefuseAmazing3422@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I'd look at products like topaz photo ai. It should do things like color correction, brightness and sharpening. I don't think it does dusts spot / scratches although that's probably on the feature list to add. You could also use a two step process with another program for dust spots.

If topaz or similar ai product doesn't do exactly what you want, I'd start scanning but wait a year or two to process as these programs are rapidly improving.

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