Last night I managed to remove an 8x10 photo (the shiny red airplane in the photo below) from one of those sticky photo album pages from the '70s. I used warm air from my hair dryer and the thinnest ruler I own to keep from losing ground once I'd gained it. A key seems to be gently tugging the photo in directions sort of parallel to the page rather than straight up. Also to avoid curling the edges, use only as much heat as it takes, but let the air blow under the edges of the photo as you give it little tugs. Easy does it.
Amazing, really, how strong that old glue can be toward the middle of the photos where it has dried out surprisingly little. It's a fiddly business peeling the photos off. My best tip of all? Have a new album ready and put the photos right back on a new page just as soon as you have scanned them--if that is your objective. If you leave the photos loose you will regret it, don't ask how I know!
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