Digital Imaging & 35mm Slide Scanning FAQ Q. I have an HD, big screen TV. How will your scans display on this type of TV? A. Your final image size will be 1735 x 2593 pixels. The highest resolution HDTV available today is 1080 x 1920 pixels. Naturally, the quality of your final image is going to be greatly dependent on the quality of your original slide. Sometimes people think that their slides are in better shape or sharper than they really are. For our own reputation, we are going to get the images as sharp as possible. The display on your widescreen TV will depend on how you have your TV setup. 35mm Slide Scanning FAQ Our slide show is set up to display in the 4:3 mode. You should be able to set your TV up to display in 4:3 or 16:9. Q. Why would people that care enough about their slide and photo collection to digitize it, send their whole collection to the other side of the world, to India, to save a few dollars? A. It is probably because they are sucked in by the unbelievably low prices and they never read the fine print in the "terms and conditions" when they have to sign up for an "account." We have been theatened with a lawsuit in a letter from a lawyer representing one of these companies, if we keep telling people their identity. They do NOT want anyone to know what they are doing because they know that most people would not knowingly agree to sending their photo collection 9,000 miles away to a third world country no matter how much money they save. We'd like to tell you their name but, at our low profit margin, we just can't afford to do it. The rule might be: if the price is unbelievably low, your heirloom photos are going to India.

Musical Slide Show

Thumbnail Catalogs Thumbnail Catalogs printouts are available for all of the images on your slide show disk. If you ever want to track down an image on your disk so you can get it printed out or you want to send it to someone, this catalog is a handy resource. Thumbnail Catalog are $1 per sheet of 30 Photos. Note that your file name will be truncated if it is over 29 characters and spaces long. This can be fixed by printing less photos per page but the charge will still be $1 per page. It is up to you to decide if you want a printout that is different than the normal 30 photos.

What if your pictures are in photo albums and you don't want to take them out of the albums but you still want to digitize them? We can help. If the pages of your album will come out and the photos are not covered with any kind of plastic sheeting, we can scan the photos without removing them from the pages. We will have to charge $15 extra per photo album page but this includes scanning the full page and then separating the individual photos and preparing the images in Photoshop®. There is a lot of extra work here and we may have to adjust the $15 per page price if it is taking us too much time but, for right now and until further notice, we will stick with that price. Photo Album Pages Once your job is in the shop, we will stick with whatever we quote you for pricing. If the photos are in plastic, you will have to take them out. We can't scan through the plastic and it wouldn't work to just pull the plastic back for scanning. Each picture on the Photo Album page will also be subject to our usual scanning prices. Just count all the pictures in your photo album and figure out your costs and then add $15 per album page. Our advice to you is to take the pictures out of the pages and save any extra charges from us. If you number the pictures on the back to keep track of where they go in the album, do the marking in pencil and not ink. We had numerous customers who have ruined a good part of their photo collection by marking with a permanent magic marker on the backs of the photos. On many of the photos, the ink offset onto the picture below. Please avoid this heartbreaking situation. Use pencil.

A Gift Certificate For Slide And Photo Scanning What a great gift for a Special Day! If you know someone that wants to preserve their family photo history and you would like to help them get started, this is the way to do it. We can email you a PDF file of the personalized certificate so that you can print it out and include it with your Christmas Card. . Gift certificate must be presented with the job order form before April 30th, 2007. Email or call for more information. Whether the occasion is Mother's Day, Father's Day, a birthday, Wedding, Christmas or some other special day, give the gift of Peace of Mind when your loved ones will know that their photos are preserved for future generations. Sometimes people just will not do what they really want to do. The gift certificate will give the incentive to someone you love so that they will get all those old photos and 35mm slides scanned and digitized into a beautiful slide show.Giving a gift certificate is better than giving money because, lots of time, the money will be spent on everyday things rather than on the intended gift. If you want to give Mom or Dad the incentive to get those slides and photos digitized, then a gift certificate is the perfect solution. Gift Certificates When we are done digitizing their slides and photos, the slide show disks can be copied and all the children can have their own copy of the family memories.Gift certificates are the perfect solution when you just can't seem to find the right gift or you've waited until the last minute. If you want to pay with your credit card, we can get your gift certificate, for whatever amount you name, in the mail the same day as long as there is enough time before postal pickup. If you want us to overnight the gift certificate, we can do that too for an extra charge that will cover the added expenses.Along with your Gift Certificate, we will include our free demo disk so that your loved one can see what their scan job and slide show will look like. The recipient of the gift certificate should call and notify us when they get all their slides and photos organized and are ready to send their project to us.

Our document scanning service, while preserving your family history in pictures, can also scan those irreplaceable documents such as Newspaper Articles, Birth Certificates, Immigration papers, Diplomas,  Marriage  Licenses, Wedding Invitations and Property Deeds that are also valuable for your family memorabilia. Document Scanning These items can all be included within your Slide Show and be available on your disk so that you can copy them off onto your computer or for printing.

Prints from 35mm slides

Internegatives: You used to be able to get prints made from your slides by taking them to the "drug store" and they would ship them off to a film processor laboratory. The processor would make an "Internegative" from the original slide and then make the prints from the internegative. Prints From Scans The Internegative is a negative made on special color film designed for making print copies from color slides. Kodak, unfortunately, stopped making its internegative films, and processing labs are dropping the service due to lack of demand. Internegative printing is on the way out, unless you can find a laboratory. that still has the film. Prints From Digital Images: We make scans of your slides first and then we make prints form the digital images. We had some prints made from one of our scans, just for the sake of comparison. This was a slide of average quality and sharpness. We feel that an enlargement of one of our scans, such as this, would yield a print that would be satisfactory to all but those that are very hyper critical. The quality of the original is going to determine what your final print will look like. Here is the original image, reduced down in size so that you can load it in your web browser without having to wait an unbearable amount of time. You can click on the image to view a larger image but still not the full resolution size of the scan.

Prints From Movie Film Clips

Why You Need To Digitize Your Photos and 35mm Slides Here are some reasons for including family photographs in a digital slide show viewable on your DVD player and your PC, plus making your images available for printing by future generations: Distribution to relatives. Keep the originals and distribute the digitized copies. Gather together photographs and 35mm slides from many relatives then distribute the album back to them as a DVD playable slideshow. Why Digitize? No need to divide up the family photographs. Everyone gets a full set of photos in a beautiful slideshow as large as your TV set. Disaster preparedness. Scanning and saving the digitized images to CD or DVD can provide a compact storage solution. Make more than one CD and distribute to relatives. The more copies that exist the more likely your pictures will survive any disaster. jDigitized images that are stored on CD can be stored in a safe location like a bank safe deposit box. Preserve image quality before the original deteriorates. The longer your 35mm slides and photos sit around, the more likely they are to suffer serious degradation from fading, scratches, loss, or damage. If you have a 35mm slide or photo that is rapidly fading, get it digitized now before you lose too much quality. Get a digitized scan with highest resolution and color depth possible and store the picture on archival quality digital media. Plan for migrating the images every few years to a new format or media. Reduce handling of original photos and 35mm slides to prevent wear and tear. This is a significant factor for museums and photographic archives, but should not be overlooked in family photograph collections. Repeated handling of photographs can easily rub-off penciled captions, for example. 35mm slides are even more susceptible to damage from fingerprints and molds from oils on your fingers.

Organization of the slides is the main problem for most people: doing the organizing of all the photos and 35mm slides. You might want to consider doing what many of our customers do: Send all your slides to us for scanning and then organize your images on your computer. Slide Organization Tips Much easier than organizing your slides, one by one. This is a very big job but it is just one more reason why you should to this job soon because your kids are probably not going to take the time to do it. If you want to preserve your slides, you are going to have to do it and not leave it for someone else to do it. If you don't want to scan and organize on your computer, then there are basically three options for doing this: Organize by dates Organize by subjects or families Organize by disorganization: Make a slide show collage! Date or Subject Photos: If you do it by date or by subject, it helps to be in a room with a lot of floor space. Get your photos started into piles and start sorting. It helps if you have someone to do it with you. Trying to figure out ages is difficult sometimes without a second opinion. 35mm Slides: There are usually dates on the backs of the slides that will help you organize the slides. Collage Now the collage option is going to be the easiest. Don't spend all the time necessary to sort everything. Pack all those photos and 35mm slides up and send them along and you will get your DVD playable slide show and you will never know what photo is going to come up next. There will be no organization at all but you will get this job DONE! Once you have your slide show disk, you can copy the images to your PC and do your organizing there. You can write a CD with your newly organized files and send the disk to us and we can make you a new DVD playable disk with your images. 35mm Slides and Photos should be organized separately. Two different scanning machines mean that it would require a lot of extra work for us to combine the two scans into one particular show. It can be done later on after the scanning is done but it would involve extra work and we would have to charge more. There can be many "shows" on each Slide Show disk.