Images are *always* edited for the intended purpose at the time of scanning except for occasional items scanned for a friend. Some slide scans will be copied to a CD as uncompressed TIF and I've already e-mailed cropped JPGs that are small enough for her to share with relatives immediately. She might want to try editing the TIF copies for a book. I don't have the artistic skill to improve a badly damaged photo but can usually reduce the most distracting flaws in a few minutes. Source documents received today have nearly matching blobs that must have been dust on the lens of a microfilm reader. They are readable on screen at 600 pixels wide except where the handwriting of the photocopy is unclear. The only time we copied a set of slides without editing each one was about December 1995 using a video camera and Snappy gadget. Crashed the hard drive, had to reload Windows 95 and redo all of them. They were carefully edited on the second time round and used for a video tape with pre-recorded sound track. Also switched to a better/faster image editing program soon after that experience. I want images ready to print and share, not huge archival files that would require lengthy editing sessions and still not be suitable for small faces cropped from group pictures. Multiple scans at the time are best to show each face for box chart, head and shoulders of a married couple for the group sheet and the whole picture. Sometimes sections of documents are scanned separately from the overall paper to show important details. Thumbnails are printed from Paint Shop as a worksheet for each scanning session. Images in Windows folders are normally copied to a CD-RW after each scanning session and also added to the appropriate FTM file. I haven't found a need for any additional album product or separate database. The only numbered pictures are same-day events like a wedding collection from multiple cameras or a vacation trip that needs to be in the same sequence as route travelled. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keating Kay" > Tell me, do you edit the photo as you scan or do you get the > best scan possible without heavy editing and move on? I have a number of > tintypes that are pretty badly damaged, and while I can get a much improved > image, it takes hours with the clone brush to cover all the cracks.