<p>I am planning to finally organize the boxes of snapshots that have been neglected for years. I have visions of scanning these, tagging the images and creating files to save them in. Also, I might want to crop, edit or “photo shop” some of them.</p>
<p>The only experience I have with this is putting together a photo scrapbook using the software of the company that printed the book. I would like to store the images on my own computer and have different options in printing out stuff.</p>
<p>The copy-fax-canner combo machine I have is on its last leg and I want to replace it.</p>
<p>Looking for recommendations for the hardware and software for this project-- thanks</p>
<p>I have the Epson Perfection series of scanner. It has several models, the lower model is slower but it works for me. the V300 is less than $100. It will scan negatives and slides as well.</p>
<p>You can spend 1 hour to scan one photo into a high res. 200 meg file. I normally let it default to 300dpi and it takes about 3 min. each.</p>
<p>I also have the Epson Perfection V300 - it was highly rated when I bought it a year or so ago. I’ve been very satisfied; it also coverts documents to PDF which has been very useful.</p>
<p>For photo editing software I use Photoshop Elements. It is much simpler (and cheaper) than the full blown Photoshop, but does pretty much everything I need.</p>
<p>I also use Photoshop Elements for more sophisticated editing, but have a program called Photo Explosion that came with (I think) a printer and really like that for most editing.</p>