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Digitize your slides & negatives before they deteriorate

By: Bill Hunter

Have you got lots of containers full of old photo negatives or slides which you haven’t checked for years, they may be slowly deteriorating so they look faded, scratched or the negatives might even finish up being glued to their sleeves etc. If you happen to hold onto your negatives or slides only to discover they have deteriorated or disintegrated and are unusable you are likely to be very disappointed, especially if they're of treasured memories. To help stop this happening it is a good idea to scan your negatives or slides sooner rather than later to preserve them for the future.

To get your old negatives or slides scanned into digital files, you may obtain the required gear to do it yourself; however, a different method that is also cost effect and will save you the time and effort of doing it yourself is to get them scanned by an experienced negative and slide Scanning Service.

Your photos particularly your old negatives or slides are precious memories. Once you convert your negatives or slides to digital files they might be saved on a CD or DVD or emailed to family and friends or maybe archived online for additional protection.

The Scanning Service you choose to scan your negatives or slides should digitize them at a resolution of 2,000 or 4,000 dpi (dots per inch). The scanning service should also employ scanners to automatically recognize and take away slight scratches and dust marks. Red-eye elimination is also another service a professional image Scanning Services must provide.

The main features therefore that a negatives or slides Scanning Services should offer you are minor imperfection removal, color adjustment, dust & redeye deletion and your digital files supplied on CD or DVD.

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 simpler for the Scanning Service.

So do not wait until you find out your negatives or slides are damaged, digitize them straight away so they can be preserved for the future. For information on a suitable negatives or slides Scanning Service, go to my web site by clicking on a link within the Author Resource information section.

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