By Jennifer Hoskins


Alright, so you have a crateful of photos and even negatives stored at home. Millions of people lose their treasured moments in photos due to wear and tear. Fortunately, there is a very solution to the problem in the form of photo scanning service which will digitize your photos so that you can save it on your computer.

Digitizing your old photos by scanning is a much better way of storing photos than shoving them into the attic in big boxes. Digital photos are very durable since they are stored in a computer virtually and not physically and hence don't degrade over a period of time. Even after you access them after many years, they will remain absolutely the same.

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.

You could of course scan all your photos at home, but the problem is that high resolution digital images require expensive scanners. Moreover, scanning a lot of pictures on your own is quite time consuming. Using a photo scanning service nearby, you will be able to reduce the cost and at the same time, get the job done quickly.

Before you choose one of the scanning services though, you should check out a few things. The most important thing is to not always choose the cheapest, but the best scanning service. Cheap services might not have up to date equipment and hence photo quality might not be great. The service must be able to provide you high resolution digital copies of your photos.

It is also important to find out which format the service is using to convert your photos. There are a few different formats such as JPG, PNG, GIF and many more. You want your service to convert the photos into a format that can be read and opened by all computers, whether PCs or 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 can help you save years of your hard work of collecting photos, and thus preserve whatever memories you treasure from your old days. Just remember to organize your collection in the way that you would like it to be arranged. This makes it easier for the service to get the photos in proper order and organize them digitally as such.




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