Have you got plenty of boxes full of old photo negatives or slides that you haven’t checked for years, they may be slowly deteriorating so they look faded, scratched or the negatives might even end up being glued to their sleeves etc. If you should hold onto your negatives or slides only to find they have deteriorated or disintegrated and are unusable you are likely to be extremely disappointed, particularly if they're of treasured memories. To help prevent this happening it definitely a good suggestion to scan your negatives or slides sooner instead of later to preserve them for the future.
To get your old negatives or slides scanned into digital files, you could buy the required equipment to do it yourself; however, a different approach that is also cost effect and can save you the time and inconvenience of doing it yourself is to have them scanned by a professional negative and slide Scanning Service.
Your photographs are important memories and this also means your old negatives or slides. When transformed to digital files your negatives or slides may be saved in your computers hard drive, or saved on CDs or DVDs or just archived on-line for additional security.
The Scanning Service you select to scan your negatives or slides ought to scan them with a resolution of 2,000 or 4,000 dpi (dots per inch). The scanning service should also make use of scanners to automatically make out and remove slight scratches and dust marks. Red-eye removal is also an additional service a reliable image Scanning Services must provide.
As a minimum the Scanning Services you choose must therefore provide you with the basic features of dust & redeye deletion, small imperfection deletion, color adjustment and your digital files supplied on CDs or DVDs.
Scanning negatives will on the whole produce higher quality images than scanning your photo prints and organizing your pictures based on a roll of negatives makes it easier for the Scanning Service.
So don't wait until you realize your negatives or slides are damaged, scan them now to allow them to be preserved for the future. For information on an appropriate negatives or slides Scanning Service, go to my web site by clicking on a link inside the Author Resource information section.
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