Thursday, March 3, 2011

Rescue Your Old Photos Using a Photo Scanning Service

By Jennifer Hoskins


You have a huge collection of your precious and memorable moments of your life in photos and films and are afraid to lose them. Indeed the fear is not unfounded, because many people around the world lose their photos because they get damaged or lost. A photo scanning service, however, will make sure that you are not without choice when you lose photos.

Scanning and converting your old photos into digital versions is very beneficial in many ways as opposed to storing them in the attic. Digital photos, by their nature, cannot get old. They don't suffer the degradation that normal film does. They can be stored for many, many years and they will be still as fresh as ever.

Another big advantage of digitizing photos and films is that you can easily create multiple copies of your photos and back them up to an external hard disk. This ensures that that a computer crash does not ruin the photos. Moreover, you can also back digital photos onto the internet so that you can open them from anywhere in the world.

Photos in the digital format can be uploaded very easily using many services such as Picasa or Flickr and share those photos with anyone you want to. Also, once uploaded on to the internet, you can organize them into slides and even make virtual scrap books. You can also change the look of photos and remove artifacts by using software such as Photoshop.

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.

Which format you old photos will be converted to, is another important aspect to be considered. Some services may store your photos in formats which cannot be opened in all computers. Open formats such as JPG, PNG, and GIF can be easily opened in both PCs and Macs.

Also check out if the services can make digital copies of all the types of films that you have in your collection. It is possible that a particular scanning service does not entertain very old film types due to lack of equipment.

A photo scanning service will make it easier for you to preserve all your old memories that you have collected over so many years. You would be helping the scanning service by organizing the photos to be scanned in the order that you want them to be returned so that you can group them later with ease.




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