I recently took on a project I've been putting off for more than a year now: digitizing my family's photos. This was no small task (precisely why I kept procrastinating it) for two reasons. First, our sprawling collection of photos spans decades and fills up about a dozen dusty albums, including several of those godawful ones from the '70s and '80s with the adhesive backing that, despite practically disintegrating with age, still manages to keep a death grip on each photo.
Second, I knew next to nothing about photo scanners when I started this project, and my experience with photo editing in general isn't much better. I needed something that could not only scan a variety of sizes and formats but also had a simple enough UI that someone without years behind a camera could understand.
