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The Real Cost of Waiting: How Every Year of Delay Degrades Your Analog Media Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Every year you wait to digitize your photos, tapes, film, and slides, you lose a little more of them, and some of that loss can never be undone.  This slow, ongoing pattern of photos tapes deteriorating over time is exactly...

How to Digitize Daguerreotypes, Tintypes, and Glass Plate Negatives? Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

These are the rarest and most fragile photos you will ever encounter. A daguerreotype from the 1840s, a tintype from the Civil War era, a glass plate negative from the early 1900s. They are irreplaceable historical records, and they require...

Best Apps and Platforms for Sharing Digitized Family Photos With Relatives Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Getting your photos scanned is step one. But if those files just sit on a hard drive that nobody else can access, you have only done half the job. Once you have your scans, you need a real plan for...

How to Include Your Photo and Video Collection in Your Digital Estate Plan? Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Most people spend decades documenting their lives through photographs and home videos, yet the vast majority of estate plans never mention them. When a loved one passes, the question of what happens to photos when you die becomes painfully real....

How to Build a Family Photo Timeline for a Genealogy Project? Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Photos are the most human layer of family history. Birth certificates tell you when someone arrived. Census records tell you where they lived. But a faded black-and-white photograph of your great-grandparents standing outside their first home tells you something no...

How to Remove Photo Stuck to Glass Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

We have captured and shared special moments of our personal history using printed photographs for generations now. Unfortunately, these priceless prints weren’t designed to last forever. Printed photos have the chemical tendency to fade over time and are vulnerable to...