FotoBridge | Digitizing Photos Blog

You may not always remember every detail from 10 years ago but if you have a digital photo back up plan you will be able to rest easy. Backing up your digital photos is one of the most important things you can do to preserve these memories. Each photo is equally important because they each represent a precious moment frozen in time. Digital copies protect them from being lost due to any kind of disaster striking - whether it be a natural disaster or a computer failure. Although backing up photos on your own can be tedious, there are online services that create automatic back ups and digital copies - saving you both time and the trouble of remembering to create backups.

Whether we like it or not, natural disasters are a fact of life, from the fires that ravaged Florida over the summer to the deadly Nor'easter that struck the eastern seaboard in 2011. For many, the flooding and hurricane damage that New York sustained from "Frankenstorm" Sandy in October evoked terrifying memories of NOLA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. If it were your home at risk, would you be ready?

Just under 15 million iPads were sold in its very first nine months on the market. Did you happen to get one of these popular tablet computers? If you haven't jumped on the bandwagon by now, I'm sure you know a friend, relative or co-worker who does. Apple designed and developed this platform for audio-visual media such as movies, games, photos and periodicals. These are fantastic mediums to use to share digital photos.

Mobile apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have revolutionized mobile phone photography, transforming the lenses built into smart phones into retro-style cameras like the Diana, Holga and Lomo. They have not only created a unique niche of retro iPhonography but these free apps have morphed into online social communities structured around image sharing. The web site Instagram, and Hipstamatic’s site provide unique web-based sharing platforms with online albums and options for print fulfillment. Although the digital effects of these apps are unique to the mobile platform, the effect can be easily duplicated with basic knowledge of filters in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
 

Sharing photography is one of the primary and dominant means of communication on social media networks with millions of images posted daily across the globe. The interfaces for uploading imagery with both Google+ and Facebook are relatively smooth but with so many avenues for publishing content - from a mobile smart phone, via a batch-uploading app in the computer’s operating system or through an internet browser - it can be difficult to keep your imagery organized. Here are a few simple links that can make your experience easier and more efficient when uploading albums of memories. Whether they be scanned photos, slides, digitized negatives, or born digital images - these steps should help.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who grew up with a “no instructions necessary” kind of Dad. Four hours later when my ready to assemble desk was still in pieces…I knew it was time I intervene with the manual. As much as you can trust your own instincts, sometimes it is not a bad idea to get outside advice.

Okay - you've finally decided to take the plunge and get those boxes of photos scanned by a professional photo scanning service. Whew! Now how do you get them ready? Photo scanning services like FotoBridge have great information for prepapring your photos to send off for digitizing. Once you get started you will see how easy it is and the rewards are amazing! 

Many adults of the baby boomer or older generations have boxes of photos that they rarely flip through. I don't know about you but I can't tell you how many I would find if I went through my parent's basement and attic. The photos remain inaccessible and are difficult to sort through and find what they are looking for. Next time you need a gift for your parents, I would consider digitizing the photos so they can view them on a computer - makes life so much easier!