Preparing Photos for Scanning
If you have photo albums, check through them to see if your photo’s are OK. If they are faded, sticking to the paper, changing color, or if there is mold on any of the pages, then its time to remove them. We have several ways of digitizing your photos. If they are stuck on the pages, leave them there. We can digitize your photo’s safely while in your books. Peeling them off will compromise your photos, they will curl and parts of the photo paper can remain stuck on the pages.
If your photos are in albums with the magnetic paper or wax paper, they should be removed. The photo’s of the 70’s seem to be the most faded right now. I have placed my photos from albums in their own file folder to keep them together while I scan them. The photos are scanned to a jpg file and placed on a CD. From there, I make DVD’s and hard cover professionally bound books.
Photos that not in albums can be placed in photo boxes. We can scan them to digitize and preserve them. Your photos will be dusted, scanned as jpg files at 300-600 dpi and placed on CD.s We can also make DVD productions from your scanned photos. Once your photos are digitized, you can make copies of the disc and send copies to other family members. This will help insure that your family history is preserved.
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