Fifty years ago today, the course of history was altered, something happened, and the world changed

[Liberal In Texas]

71. If I might make a suggestion...

First of all, that's quite a story. You seem to have a wonderful family and have had a pretty darn good life.

My suggestion is that you have these precious old pictures that have faded and colors dimmed with age. Unless our folks or friends used Kodachrome back in the day, almost every picture that is decades old could use a little TLC.

I've been going through my old family and work pictures and have been scanning them to make an electronic record when the paper and the slides will inevitably be lost or destroyed from age or neglect.

I discovered just using a scanner on my printer was less than satisfying and even programs like PhotoShop only did so much and were time consuming and difficult to use. And I have a bunch of family slides and the printer scanner is worthless for scanning them in.

Anyway, I found that Epson makes a scanner and the software it come with is just amazing. Basically, you scan your photo or slide and click on the color restore box and maybe tweak it a little more with other adjustments and voila:

(Late 70s photo I took of our TV station's helicopter with an obvious Before and After)

I'm using an Epson V600 but other makes might be available. There may be some snazzy models in Germany I don't know about. But the one I'm using works like magic.

Thanks for sharing your story. It is very interesting.