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carefully adjust the brightness/contrast settings of your scanner to get the most useful information out of the images

I am considering scanning in three crates of old family photos, but the above is what I'm most daunted by. Every photo scan I've done looks dead and flat. I blame the glossy finish on the photo messing up the scanner's light (made worse if you're scanning a whole page which has a plastic cover on it).

Is there a silver bullet for the horrible lack of color depth in scanned photos? Luckily, I have many many negatives and slides, so I'm hoping a proper negative/slide scanner will do the trick.

Now, digitizing that old reel-to-reel video, that's another story.
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