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How to Digitize Wedding Albums and Bridal Portraits From Every Decade Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Your wedding album is proof of one of the happiest days of your life, and it deserves better than a dusty shelf or a damp box in the basement. If you have been putting off scanning your big day, now...

How to Digitize Military Photos, Service Records, and Wartime Memorabilia Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

A soldier's photo, a folded telegram, a set of medals in a cigar box. These items deserve the same careful treatment a museum would give them, not a quick pass through a home scanner.  If you want to digitize military...

Why Fall Is the Perfect Time to Start Your Photo and Video Digitization Project Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

The holidays have a way of making us pull out the boxes. Suddenly, you are looking through old family photos, finding forgotten VHS tapes, or discovering a stack of slides from a trip you barely remember.  With Thanksgiving and the...

Creating a Family Media Inventory: How to Catalog What You Have Before You Digitize Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

You can’t digitize what you can’t find. Before you send a box of old photos or tapes to a scanning service, take one simple step: make a family photo inventory. You do not need to identify every picture perfectly. You...

How to Digitize Church, Synagogue, and Community Organization Archives Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Decades of community history can sit quietly in filing cabinets, closets, storage rooms, and old boxes.  A congregation may have photographs from its first building, printed bulletins from major milestones, directories filled with names, and videos of dedication ceremonies.  Community...

Grandparents’ Day Gift Guide: Digitize Their Photo Collection and Preserve Their Legacy Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

The best Grandparents' Day gift may already be sitting in a closet. Old albums, loose prints, slides, negatives, and home videos can hold decades of family stories, but physical media can fade, tear, get lost, or become difficult to play....