Making a family tree/family history photo book is a big challenge, but it’s certainly rewarding when you get to share it with your family. A lot goes into the process. You have to contact family members, collect photos and stories, scan pictures, and perhaps the biggest challenge of all, try to repair or restore old […]
Photo Scanning: How to Scan Your Old Photos to Your Computer
If you don’t want to pay a professional photo scanning service to scan all those old black and white photos and stacks of fading Polaroids you have stashed away, why not scan them yourself? It is not that difficult, but it will take some time. Once you have them scanned you can archive them on […]
Scan Your Old 35mm Slides – Preserve Your Photos and Save Space
My parents still have boxes of old color 35mm slides from road trips they took in the 1960s, hidden away in a closet. As a child, I remember our family gathering around as my dad manned the slide projector, and my sisters and I giggled at the hairdos and the fun stories my parents told […]
Top Four Reasons to Outsource Your Photo Scanning Project
So you have decided to do something about all those photos, slides and negatives sitting in a box at the back of your bedroom closet. You are thinking about sending them off to be scanned at a photo scanning service but you balk at the two or three hundred dollars it’s going to cost to […]
Value Package Makes Scanning Old Photos Cheap
I’m a tad late for spring cleaning, but better late than never, right? In the process of cleaning out the closets I realized just how many old photos and slides I have stored away. Too many. Way too many. I know better than that; I know what happens to old photos shoved away in closets […]
Scanning to Digital: Best Way to Preserve Children’s Artwork
If you have young kids, you likely have a fridge door covered with you children’s artwork and perhaps boxes of other art and projects that you can’t bear to part with. But what do you do when they really start piling up? There is an easy solution to preserving these little treasures for everyone to […]
Rescuing Your Old Photos From Ruin
How I wish I been smart and used the best photo scanning service I could find when I was trying to make a photo memory book in honor of a family member. I had photos that were turning yellow or blue, some were scratched, others faded and many had dust specks, which were especially evident […]
