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DIY vs. Professional Photo Scanning: What’s the Real Cost? Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

This blog explains the real cost behind scanning your old photographs, comparing DIY vs. professional photo scanning, and helps you decide which method makes the most sense—financially and emotionally. Whether you're trying to preserve family memories or finally tackle those...

Do You Have Memory Insurance? Why Digitizing Your Photos, Videos and Other Media Is So Important Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Quick Reasons to Digitize Your Memories: Eliminate the risk of damage to items from fire, floods, and other unforeseen disasters Insurance against losing priceless photos, videos, and film forever Protect your one of a kind keepsakes from fading and deteriorating...

How to Clean 35mm Slides – The Best Ways for Cleaning Photo Slides Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Slides provide amazing, 1st generation images - creating the ability to produce uninhibited printed and digital copies of the original picture. HOWEVER, for the digital images to be clear, you must scan a clean slide. Nowadays, slides typically end up...

Photo Organizing: A New Niche Has Been Born Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

A Trillion & Counting The world takes well over a trillion digital photos per year. Process that fact for a minute. What if I told you that this number is actually growing rapidly, and yet more and more photos are...

Life Events & Why It’s Time To Digitize Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Many people ask themselves, is it really necessary to digitize my photos and home videos now? The short answer is yes! If you took the time to capture all those special moments and held on to them all these years...

Tips for Saving Your Water Damaged Photos Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services

Water can be detrimental to your analog memories. Photos, videotapes, films, etc. can't easily stand up to the effects of water. On a small scale, maybe a drink gets spilled on a stack of photos and is now drenched. On...