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Jump into the Digital Age: Tips for Successfully Digitizing Your Memories Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services
Having hard copies is wonderful for looking back on old childhood memories with loved ones. But printed photos, VHS tapes, microfilm, and other antiquated formats are often damaged or lost. This makes it important to digitize memories. You can save digital memories forever. Plus, they are always accessible and editable. You can also send your favorite memories to friends and family or share them on social media.
If you want to preserve your old photographs and videos for longer, here are some tips that will help you on the way.
Tips for Arranging & Classifying Meticulously
Wondering how to turn physical photos into digital ones? The first steps in digitizing memories should be sorting and arranging. If you do this, you may quickly find the pictures you want without sifting through irrelevant ones.
You can save time and effort by categorizing and arranging your photos before scanning. It’ll also allow you to recall specifics about each picture, adding fun to digitizing media. Some suggestions for arranging your photo collection are provided below.
- Set up folders for different types of images, such as those of your family, your travels, and special occasions. This will facilitate the subsequent search for certain images.
- The photographs should then be organized chronologically inside each group. Doing so will provide a distinct order to the events, allowing you to contextualize the photographs better.
- While you are at it, mark each image with information about when and where it was taken and the identities of anybody visible in the shot.
- Once you’ve finished sorting the photos, make a complete list of them. A photo should have a title, date, and location noted, as well as a list of names of anybody who appears in the photo.
While these suggestions will help to ensure that your scanned images are organized efficiently during the scanning process, it should be noted that it is not necessary to perform these actions in order to get started. If preferred, you can always just bring in or send your collection as it is and we will organize it however it is received. The digital images can always be re-organized according to your preference once all the photos have been scanned. Some people find this process to be simpler than meticulously classifying the photos prior to scanning.
Tips for Choosing a Professional Photo Scanning Service
Attempting to do this on your own is a massive task, especially if you have many photographs. So, you must choose a professional photo scanning service. However, you shouldn’t trust your priceless family images to just any firm for scanning. Plus, the quality of service provided by various scanning firms varies. Here are some tips for choosing the right photo scanning.
- Personal referrals and word of mouth are helpful, but conducting some research online can help you make a better decision. Choose a service that has multiple years of experience and understands the importance of your memories.
- Look for a photo scanning service that meets all your scanning needs. Reliable professionals provide photo scanning service, video transfer service, slide scanning service, and much more!
- Determine reliability and credibility by reading user reviews on sites like Google and the service website. A company’s reputation is tied directly to how well it cares for its customers!
- Going with the cheapest option may not always be the best idea. It would be a huge waste of money to get the scanning redone if it wasn’t done correctly the first time. If you have a lot of media, look for a reliable company that offers cost-effective bulk scanning.
- Worse still, low-quality scanning services risk ruining or losing your priceless originals. Opt for a scanning company that is transparent about its processes and explains how it will handle your photographs, negatives, VHS tapes, microfilms, etc.
- Prints made from photographs scanned at 600 dpi have a high resolution and better quality. Don’t waste your time with businesses that scan at 150 dpi to cut costs; the quality will be subpar at best.
Smooth Photo Scanning Can Convert Your Memories into Digital Form
To prevent your precious memories from being lost or destroyed, it is essential to digitize them. Your memories can be stored safely as digital files.
Whether you wish to transfer a cassette tape to CD or need an audio transfer, photo restoration, or photo scanning service, Smooth Photo Scanning has got you covered. For over 25 years, businesses and governments have chosen our services for high-quality scanning and digital conversion. We excel in digitizing old photos and videos.
Your cherished recollections are very significant to us. Our trained crew will handle all of your precious heirlooms with the utmost care. We further promise to return them in pristine condition.
The digital memories you receive from our years of expertise, top-of-the-line tools, hardworking team, and procedures will last a lifetime and beyond. You can phone us at (973) 510-0818 or place your order on our website to get things rolling.
My father has been in the document scanning industry for as long as I can remember. I worked for his company Smooth Solutions, Inc. during summer breaks growing up and for a couple years after college. Wanting to venture off on my own, I gained experience in several careers including wholesale seafood sales as well as owning and operating a bakery for several years. When my father approached me with the opportunity to expand upon his already successful business by providing high quality, professional scanning services to the general public, I jumped on board. From personal experience, I recognize how important it is for most people to have their family memorabilia preserved for future generations and I want to be a part of helping others do that.