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New to TCDB.  Looking for advice on the best way to upload images of cards.  Should I scan my cards?  Is there a good app for scanning cards?  Looking to add a bunch of my cards to the DB.

Thanks!

Please use a scanner -- no phone apps or photos

Here's the section in the FAQ:

https://www.tcdb.com/ImageGuidelines.cfm

Thank you both!

PhotoScapeX is a good free program for cropping and rotating scanned images.

Maybe too much detail, but hope this helps...

Submitting card images is one of my favorite parts of the site.  I guess I just like feeling like I'm contributing something too.

I recently bought an inexpensive Cannon LIDE 300 scanner to scan cards and I've been pretty happy with it. I use the built-in scan utility and set the scanning size for:

• Standard cards: 2.45" x 3.45"
• Relic cards (in the default slab you get from Topps): 2.85" x 4.15"

and those size settings seem to work really well.  I have it set to open a 'preview' when done scanning that opens the scan in the default Windows 10 Photos app and it has a button on the toolbar to easily rotate cards and auto-saves them as rotated, which is quick & easy. I rename the files, probably not necessary, and then submit them to upload.

I've only been doing this for a few weeks, but the biggest issue I've had so far have are dealing with the reflective cards like Finest, Chrome, etc. and keeping the card and scanner bed as dust-free as possible, which can be a bit challenging if you're picky about it. :)