I will digitize a couple of thousand pictures for my family and some of them range from 40-50 years ago, which means they are discolored and blurred.
The scanner I have doesn’t have a good auto processing software (Canon Imageformula R40), it increases the contrast way too much and doesn’t seem to understand that old photos get red with time.
So I was looking at ways to bulk process these images. It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just need to improve a little bit. Does anyone has any tip?
I’d look at products like topaz photo ai. It should do things like color correction, brightness and sharpening. I don’t think it does dusts spot / scratches although that’s probably on the feature list to add. You could also use a two step process with another program for dust spots.
If topaz or similar ai product doesn’t do exactly what you want, I’d start scanning but wait a year or two to process as these programs are rapidly improving.