Many of us have a box or two tucked away in our closet with hundreds if not thousands of old albums and family photos, negatives and 35mm slides fading away and discoloring with age. Fortunately, most images can be salvaged from the ravages of time by scanning and digitizing them. A professional scanning service will make quick work of the tedious job of scanning and color correcting your old photos, 35mm slides and negatives and put them on DVD.

Scanning your old photos will give them new life; you can even make prints from all those 35mm slides. You can store your newly scanned and digitized photos on your computer and archive them on DVD, then share them, create digital scrapbooks, print them and more.

A Professional Photo Scanning Service Will Save Money and Hours of Time

Scanning a huge stack of photos and carousels of 35mm slides can be a daunting task, not to mention expensive if you need to buy a slide scanner. You need to get each image properly aligned in the scanner, make sure the photo and the scanner bed are free of dust, smudges and specks, scan your photo, and then most likely correct the color and clean up scratches. Then repeat 100 or 1000+ times! Who has the time? That's why using a professional photo scanning service makes sense.

Quickly Scan Photos, Slides and Negatives to DVD

A high quality photo scanning service will scan your photos, 35mm slides and negatives and correct them for damage such as scratches and color-shift (i.e. correct that pink, yellow or blue haze that sometimes develops over time on prints). Then they'll put them on their server where you can view or share them. You'll get your originals back along with the scanned images on DVD, CD or even on a hard drive.

Many photo scanning services will even accept whole albums as well as scrapbook pages, large format prints and APS film. In most cases you can even leave slide carousels intact, for a small fee. The scanning service will remove the slides, scan them and replace them in their original order.

If you have just a handful of photos you want to scan, it may make sense to do it yourself at home. But if you have loads of originals, especially slides and negatives, a scanning service is the most efficient means of digitizing your old photos so you can enjoy them without lost time and headaches.