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I've had several beta users of PhotoStructure share with me how they got all their slides and prints digitized. It's seems like there's really only two ways:

1. Do it yourself. One of my beta testers has had good results with the Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner. It handles both prints and slides.

2. Pay someone to do it. Scan Cafe https://www.scancafe.com/ has good reviews.

In either case:

1. Make sure you scan at a reasonable resolution. Don't scan higher than the native resolution of the scanner. Film grain on slides seldom exceeds 2500-3200dpi, and prints seldom resolve higher than 250-300 dpi. Save scans as high-quality JPEG (85-95%) unless you can scan higher than 24-bit color, then use TIFF.

2. Consider scanning the back of prints if they have anything written on them.

3. Try to capture the date the image was taken. Some software (like PhotoStructure) will infer captured-at from the filename or parent directory if it's missing from EXIF headers. yyyy-mm-dd is a good format.

4. Have a reliable way to store all this work. I had a number of beta users ask me about this so I wrote it up on my blog: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/