Re:It can be a pain...but it's worth it (Score 1)

Hope this helps. I started six years ago before there were good burners. I had a casio camera and two Zip drives, a laptop and a desk top. It still took three hours to download 64 tiffs onto a zip. Now I have a USB and a 16x burner. Also a Acer Scan wit . takes a film strip of six or six slides Takes a few secondsto load and unload each batch. This scanner is on a spare computer and has to transfer to "Big Daddy" with zips....still slow but I can be washing dishes.

But here are some hints!! When scanning pictures (I have a USB flatbed with transparecy adapter and a pasrralell) I use Photoshop with the scanners software. I preview only once. then I adjust picture size by looking at the rulers on the flatbed. I scan thirty or so at a time then I exit the scanning applet and save them all (usually to the same file) Furthermore I use Voice recognition so my hands are free for saving. Photoshop and VR are so heavy that saving things is the only time I can use them together. I can scan and save about thirty pictures an hour this way and be feeding slides into the computer called "stupid" at the same time.

I have scanned thousands (about 5 to 6) of pictures and slides. Anybody want a speed contest??? Numbering and cataloguing them takes time too.