As I said - I am not a pro .... but Jan asked how to scan negatives and slides. I have a HP scanner that has a little gadget inside the top cover. A slide goes in there or a negative. When you're ready to scan, the HP program asks if it's a negative, print, etc. etc. It works like a dream. My scanner is likely 10 yrs old and gets flakey on me after all these years but when I bought it it was $99. Other manufacturers have this feature too, this is just the one I'm familiar with. On photo restorations ... I can do the simple stuff with my photo program - adjusting automatically for brightness, colors etc. If it's complicated, I email it to my daughter as she has a more professional program that can eliminate cracks, wrinkles (whew!), black out (or whatever color) background noise (people, objects etc you don't want in the picture - like the kid who walked into the picture and crossed his eyes!). I use Microsoft Picture It as my main program; PhotoShop is a more techie program but you can do wonders with it. You've all heard of how news photos have been doctored ... but sometimes it really helps. At a funeral of a family member on the east coast, my other daughter was unable to attend. There was a get together of all the young people - cousins, sisters, etc. and it was sad that my daughter wasn't in the picture. So with some editing, she popped in the picture by using another picture of her, cropping it and popping it right in with the rest of the gang. We know she wasn't really there but I now have a picture of all the grandchildren of the deceased together. It's noted on the photo that she wasn't there for future generations. Hope this helps - Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html