Many adults of the baby boomer or older generation have boxes of photos that they rarely flip through. The photos remain inaccessible and are difficult to sort through and find what they are looking for. Next time you need a gift for your parents, consider digitizing the photos so they can view them on a [...]

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Photographic slides are the once-popular image-producing films that require the aid of a projector in order to properly view the images. Photographers and filmmakers of all skill levels are no strangers to these films because of their ability to produce quality images, but as advances in photo technology continue, slides have become obsolete, leaving collectors [...]

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Most people know that their memory deteriorates with age; what they don’t know is that their memories deteriorate with age, too, especially if those memories are saved on VHS tape. VHS tapes start to deteriorate after about 10 years. Once you hit the 20-year mark, your ability to view tapes could be seriously affected. Factor [...]

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Unlike film, video tape tends to deteriorate quite quickly. It’s likely that tapes older than 10 years have begun to deteriorate and beyond 20 years many tapes are often compromised in some way, typically with degraded image and color quality. There is little difference between analog video tape and digital video tape when it comes [...]

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About the only downside to digitizing photos from your old collection is the time it takes to get the job done. But it’s well worth the effort because once its complete, those old photos can be preserved forever, copied, edited, shared and combined with your digital photo collection as if they were born-digital images. And [...]

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If your lucky, some of your most treasured memories have been captured and saved on a variety of mediums over the decades. Perhaps some of that rare imagery is on old Kodachrome slides, packed away in photo albums or stored on 8mm film reels. Scanning photos to digitally preserve and share online is gaining popularity as scanners [...]

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Affordable flatbed scanners are ubiquitous these days, their utility and ease-of-use make them favorites for digitizing documents and images. Scanning photos is often a significant driver of demand for higher priced, more advanced flatbed scanners. But what if your photo scanning requirements extent beyond photo prints to include scanning negatives and converting slides to digital ? Many [...]

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Many photographers today are caught between two worlds, the old-school world and the digital age. Today, to be successful professional photographers need to reinvent themselves regularly for the online world. They need to become internet marketers, business developers and managers – in addition to being great photographers, whether their art is still based upon traditional [...]

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Gamma is a digital imaging adjustment that impacts the brightness of images on computers. When photo scanning, images are usually optimized either for a Windows environment or an Apple computer because the standard gamma values are different. If you are using a photo scanning service to scan photos, check to see which gamma setting is used [...]

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Now that just about everything has gone digital, it makes sense to determine which important personal items should be digitized. For most people, the obvious answer and first priority is to digitize photos. Scanning photos and converting slides to digital digitally preserves the images and makes those treasured memories instantly sharable online. Transferring home movie film to [...]

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