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Sharing the family Photos album

Q I’m about to start scanning thousands of old family photos, and want to put them in a Photos library to share over our home network. Will that work?

by PHIL THOMPSON

A This is an excellent time to get this done, given the diminishing supply of and support for scanners. There are good tools for enhancing and retouching scanned images, but sharing them over a network is more of a problem.

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