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Saturday, February 12, 2011

A Photo Scanning Service Saves Your Photos

By Jennifer Hoskins


You have a huge collection of your treasured photos of the past glory days at home, but don't want to lose them. Indeed, millions of photos are lost by many people all over the world each year because they get old. However, a photo scanning service should solve your problem very easily by creating digital copies of your photos for computer storage.

Scanning your old and new photos and converting them to digital offers many benefits over the traditional photo storage methods. The first benefit is that digital photos can be stored for generations and even centuries to come and you can rest assured that you will be able to access them whenever you desire to do so.

Another big advantage is that once you have digitized your photos, you can even take backups of your entire collection in an external drive. This means that even if your computer crashes for some reason, you still haven't lost your fond memories. What's more, you can even back the photo collection online so that you can access them from anywhere in the world.

Another advantage of converting your photo collection into a digital format is that you can easily share it with other people all over the world. You could create scrap books or special slides having different themes. Moreover, you can even manipulate the photos so that you can make creative photos for frames and all.

The potential problem is that scanning thousands of photos requires expensive, modern equipment. The whole project can turn out to be quite expensive if you have a really huge amount of photos. The solution here is to make use of a professional photo scanning service. Since they do the job in bulk, the cost of digitizing your photos can be reduced to half.

Before you decide on a photo scanning service, you need to consider a few things. My first advice is not to choose the cheapest. They might be using old equipment and the end result might not be what you want. Choose a service who can convert your photos into high quality digital photos by using high resolution scanning.

Another thing to check out in a scanning service is which format the service will convert your photos to. It is an important thing to consider because all photo formats cannot display photos on all the computers. Choose one which offers to convert your photos into common formats such as JPEG, PNG, or GIF.

Also check out whether the scanning service can digitize all the old types of films that you have. Some of the services may not be equipped to convert very old films into digital formats.

Using a photo scanning service will help you preserve your photos which you have worked hard to collect. When you are giving your old photos to a service, remember to organize them in the order you want them back. This will make the job of the photo scanning professional much easier.




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