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As a relatively new user of Lightroom Classic, I have just begun exploration of plugins. I am new to using this forum and am not a geek. Plugins must be simple. LightRoom is enough challenge for me. The two plugins I believe will be helpful right now are Lr Backup Cleaner from lightroom-plugins.com and Jeff Friedl's "meta data preset viewer." Jeff's page says this is "Beta version" so I worry that my lack of geek skills will create problems. Metadata is incredibly important to my project which is scanning old family photos (some are 100 yrs old) using Epson Perfection V850 Pro and SilverFast HDR Suite for obtaining an archive quality original scan. Photos must be opened first in SilverFast HDR where lighting has a few auto corrections that make the photo easier to view before restoration. The photos will be saved again in this new view for importing into LightRoom Classic where I will do some/all restoration followed with Photoshop as necessary. Many of the photos have been restored by me using Photoshop Elements only but some really need a better original scan so I plan to work through those again using this new methodology.
Would appreciate comments from users of these products regarding their ease of use or recommendations for other helpful plug-ins for a project like mine.
Thanks you, Charline Rambaud
 
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About 'Plug-ins', maybe this excel sheet is usefull, it contains a overview of all plug-ins available at my knowledge (additions are welcome)

About your scan and archive project, this book from Peter Krogh was very helpfull to me at the time. It covers all aspects in such a project, not only the (camera)scanning part as the title suggest. I did a (dutch) review on the book.
 
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Very helpful spreadsheet Roelof, thank you.

I concur with comments on Peter's book, there's a lot of helpful tips in there.
 
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Thanks so much. I have all Peter's books and have researched them for applications to my project. I am not a photographer so I'd have to buy all the equipment. Choosing the camera that would produce equivalent or better scans than my Epson Perfection V850 Pro scanner in combination with SilverFast Archive Suite 8.8 (includes HDR) as scan software doesn't seem possible. Then there is the learning curve for proper camera operation. In spite of that, I had decided to follow Peter's plan until I shopped for cameras. There are so many choices that I just gave up. Just purchasing the right camera with the right features created another learning curve. Besides, I was convinced that I might get it wrong after having spent a great deal of money or that it would require a Geek's interest. I am first and foremost a genealogist. But the natural extension of that is the collecting of old family photos to be made available online as a family photo archive to our extended family.
Getting a good scan is just the first step. Adding metadata that includes identification of the people in the photos with their full names as well as dates of birth & death is critical and time consuming but necessary for photo archiving. Then many of the photos require extensive restoration. I spent nearly four days on a single portrait that is over 100 years old. Getting detail back can be incredibly difficult because of the embedded imperfections from deterioration of ink and paper. It is not just a matter of restoring proper coloring and lighting although that helps significantly.
Thanks again, Charline Rambaud
 
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