Photos are among our most prized possessions, so when you realize your entire family photographic history exists in one vulnerable—and in my case, tornado-riddled—place, spread across dozens of envelopes and stacks of albums, you’ve got to put your scanning boots on. (Besides, how else can you use those pictures in projects you make on your Mac?) You can mail your beloved mementos to a scanning service, but the fulfillment you get from doing it yourself and reliving all those memories is huge. While a giant scanning project can feel overwhelming, all you really need is patience, a scanner, and these essential scanning tips. Buy a $70 scanner Scanners used to be huge, heavy and costly but today’s desktop scanners are small, inexpensive, and highly intelligent. How is this exciting?

Let us count the ways. For example, you can pack the into your laptop case so you can take it with you to Grandma’s house (it’s barely thicker than a 15-inch MacBook) and at $70 it’s a steal. Today’s scanning software is super smart: it can detect individual photos on its glass, automatically remove dust and specks, and restore color to seriously faded photos.

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This particular Epson model also has a scanning resolution of up to 4,800 x 4,800 pixels per inch (crucial for printing), a removable lid for scanning bulky stuff (handy when you can’t extract the picture from the album), and it’s powered by a USB cable (no cumbersome power brick required). Clean the scanning glass It may sound obvious, but be sure to clean the scanner’s glass often.

If there’s dirt on the glass, it winds up in your pictures. Spray a lint-free cloth—not the glass!—with glass cleaner (if you spray the glass, liquid may seep under it and drip into the scanning mechanism). If you have a can of compressed air, give the glass a good spray between scans to eliminate dust. Scan everything It takes far less time and far fewer brain cycles to simply scan everything you find rather than deciding what’s worthy and what isn’t.

You can trash bad images later. Always use the scanning software’s preview feature Most scanning software includes a Preview and a Scan button.

While it’s tempting to immediately click Scan, clicking Preview gives you a rough approximation of the scan you’re about to make. This lets you confirm if you’ve set the software to scan in grayscale or color (it’s best to use grayscale for black-and-white shots) and if the scanner is going to mistakenly scan several photos together into a single image file (the fix is to move them farther apart or rotate them slightly on the glass). Here the software is set to scan a photo (not a magazine page or other document) in color at 600 dpi at the image’s current size (not enlarged or reduced). Group several pictures onto the scanning glass Scanning a single photo takes 1 to 2 minutes yet scanning several takes between 2-3 minutes. To save time, group several photos onto the glass with a bit of space between them.

Why does it take so long? Because the software also separates all the pictures into individual image files, straightens them, removes dust, and restores the color in each individual picture. While you can try to scan a whole page from a photo album, it often results in a single image file instead of individual files for each picture, plus the scanner’s color restoration feature doesn’t tend to work as well. Plop a slew of photos onto the scanner (top) and let the software straighten, correct, and create individual files (bottom). Let the software fix colors and dust Even if you fancy yourself a Photoshop master, it’s best to let the scanning software correct color and remove dust because it was precisely engineered for this job. Your scanner’s color restoration feature is especially powerful because printed photos fade in predictable ways that the scanner can identify and (in most cases) reverse. For example, photos printed during the 1960s and 1970s are often badly faded due to defects in the papers and chemicals used at that time.