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This past Memorial Day, you probably enjoyed an extra day off from work and maybe headed to the beach or attended a BBQ. The freedom to enjoy that time in whatever manner made you happy was made possible by the millions of men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for the United States Armed Forces.

Photographs are essential to keeping family memories alive and well. When they’re stuck in a box or on a bookshelf, it’s hard to show a new friend how precisely the moment was captured. But, when you convert photos to digital, it’s much easier to show off all of your important moments.

Now that you’ve already taken the important step of converting slides to digital images, how do you safely store the slides? Pulling the projector out and scrolling through photos on a big screen is still a great family activity. Properly storing slides will ensure they have a longer than average lifespan. Once you’re finished converting slides to digital, take the time to place them in the best possible environment. The next time you need to show a child who may have never seen a slide before, the quality will be spectacular!

There’s a reason so many people enjoy summer - kids are at home and it’s finally time for some much needed rest and relaxation. Perhaps you spent time during the spring converting photos to digital for different holidays and events. Your mother can’t stop raving over her new collection of digital photographs she received for Mother's Day but what are you supposed to do with all the originals? Many times, photo collections will be ripe with double images. After protecting one set of originals, get crafty with the duplicate pictures! We’ve searched through Pinterest to find some DIY projects to keep you busy this summer.

Many families have years of photos hiding in the basement, along with different formats of negative strips and slides. Getting your archives converted is an important step when looking to preserve images, but to get the best quality scan from a negative or slide, you need to take the time to identify what kind of negative or slide it is. We took an opportunity to detail 110 and 126 analog formats. Once you understand a few key features of the 110 and 126 formats, they’ll be easy to recognize!

If there’s any event that’s worth digitizing photos for, it’s a family reunion. Whether it’s a one day event or a weeklong vacation on the coast, a reunion is the perfect time to recollect and create new memories. Now, you can make it easier to remember the good times and revisit the places you’ve been through digitized photos. It’s not hard to do – you don’t have to be a photographer to do it. It’s also a great way to protect your memories. If you want to re-visit times you feel were the ‘times of your life,’ here are a few reasons why you should digitize photos for family reunions.

Before starting a photo scanning project, it’s helpful to have reliable guidance. At FotoBridge, we not only provide photo scanning services, but we’re committed to assisting you with the whole process of preserving your family legacy. One area that’s often overlooked is the act of photo organizing for the many original pictures you have. Once you finish the photo scanning process, it’s tempting to throw them back in a box, but as APPO experts have proved, the organizing process doesn’t have to be difficult!

So you’ve finally decided to take the plunge and send your pictures to a photo scanning service to be digitized. Thousands of customers have done just the same thing and they can now enjoy those memories on a computer and share them with family members. We're glad you’ve been properly protecting your prints to reduce damage so you are now ready to send your prints to a photo scanning service to be digitized!