FotoBridge | Digitizing Photos Blog

Back in the day, capturing your granchildren on film was a process. After taking the pictures, the photos needed to be developed into slides and then loaded on a slide projector for a memorable show.

The other evening I went over to my neighbor’s house and noticed that her dining room table was covered in photos.

Almost everyone has become familiar with technical digital image “lingo,” like TIFF, JPEG, or GIF. When it comes to understanding why these different format types exist, many people are in the dark, and never give formats a thought until they begin to digitize photos and attempt to edit or share them.

The holiday season is officially here! Which means it is time to start planning your holiday gifts. Why not try something new this year with personalized photo gifts?

So you’ve pulled out all of your old printed photographs and shipped them to a photo scanning service. In the digital age we live in, you may expect every stain, crease, tear, or faded coloring to disappear after photos are scanned. Thanks to advanced scanning technology and editing software that a professional photo scanning service uses, it’s very possible such photos can be salvaged and optimized.

In a month when hustle and bustle often elbows out peace and family, why would anyone tackle a pile of old photos?

From books to magazines to music, everything we used to cram our shelves and drawers with can now conveniently be stored, bought, or created online. It’s no surprise one of the favorite past times of many DIY-ers now has a place in our digital world too: scrapbooking.

If you were born between 1900 and 1990 you most likely have priceless possessions gathering dust in your home. Those treasures include family photos, albums, letters, slides, home movies, children’s artwork and report cards and each is a testament to your unique family story.

There’s no better time to pull out old photos than the holidays. Don't restrict yourself to revisting pictures of ugly Christmas sweaters though; now is the perfect time to look back at all your treasured photographs.