PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES

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Scan


  • You can protect your originals against weathering and disaster by scanning your negatives, slides and photos to a digital format. This allows for additional backup copies to exist in multiple locations.


  • Play them on your television as background ambience using your DVD or Blu-ray player.


  • Rekindle old memories, reconnect with old friends by unearthing old photos and negatives that have sat in storage for years!

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANNING

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The First step

Do you have the negatives or slides?


Photographs are frequently affected by wear and tear. They also are only an interpretation of your original composition. The negative will yield better sharpness, color and contrast.


The picture on the left is the original photograph. (The original negative is very underexposed) On the right side, the negative was scanned in a way that allows us to extract every bit of detail, even on grossly underexposed images.




The scanning process

Step 1

The customer (optionally) groups photos and/or negatives to be scanned by subject or date (e.g. BEACH_DEC23_1978 or OCTFEST_05_12_1988).

Step 2

The negative or print is cleaned – between physical and digital cleaning, most of the dust is removed. The best-effort scan will go a step further and the remaining dust will be removed by our digital artist.

Step 3

Pre-scan – a decision is made on what frames should be scanned. We skip images that are unusable due to problems with exposure, focus or composition. (Unless you tell us otherwise)

Step 4

Images are rotated to the upright position.


Adjust for color and brightness. We try to neutralize color bias to get skin tones to a natural appearance. 


Everyone has different preferences for brightness and color, we can send you a few samples early in the scanning process to ensure we are getting it right. 

Step 5

Quality Assurance. We give you a chance to view the preview quality images to check for correct color and exposure.

Step 6

Output and shipping.