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Digitizing Your Print Photos
While a shoebox filled with old photos of family reunions, friends, child birth and your wedding day is charming and quaint, it is also quite old fashioned given advances in technology. Photos, letters and mementos that have lain dormant in your closet or garage should be brought out into the light of day.
It may seem like a daunting task, but it can be done! Digitizing your old photos will ensure that they’ll never be ruined or lost. Plus, it’ll preserve the photo exactly the way it is and even give you the opportunity to enhance it. Most photo programs will allow you to remove scratches and other imperfections. You’ll also be able to restore color to your older photographs that may have faded.
Now, where to start?
If you have a scanner and a few printed photos, you might want to scan the photos yourself. Digital versions of print photos makes organizing and sharing that much easier in today’s digital world. Just think, you can arrange and rearrange just with a click of a mouse.
Use a scanner to convert your printed photos to digital assets
If you have a larger collection of printed photos, you may want to look into a scanning service. There are several companies out there that will take your printed photos and scan them for you. In the end you’ll have CDs or DVDs of the digital images as well as physical photos. Some services can also fix photo imperfections, as we mentioned before.
Most scanning services can work with printed photos, negatives, slides, and some will even take your photo albums and remove the pictures, scan them and return the photos to their proper place in the album. Who could ask for more?
Of course, the more services you add, the higher the cost. Prices usually range from $.25/photo on up to over a $1/photo (depending upon the requested services).
Whichever service you use, just remember to copy the digitized images to your hard drive and place them into your folder system so that you stay organized. Once you have all your photos in order, adding them to your timelines and creating photo albums with MemoriesGrow will be a snap.