scanning services
archival scanning
Trust us to keep your history alive for generations!
Weʼre passionate about safeguarding your precious memories. With cutting-edge technology and a personal touch, we turn your photos, slides, and negatives into vibrant digital files.
Our commitment to quality and customer happiness shines in every pixel we preserve.
Photo Scanning
Turn your photo prints into high-quality digital images, safe and sound!
Services include:
high resolution capture,
cropping,
rotation,
and color correction.
Slide Conversion
We transform your old slides into vivid digital files, ready to share!
Negatives Scanning
Rediscover hidden gems by converting negatives to crisp digital images!
Archival Scanning
How do we work
Skill
We specialize in archival photo scanning services, including prints, albums, negatives, and slides.
Process
The scanning process is meticulous, beginning with the use of gloves to avoid introducing contaminants. Photos are cleaned to minimize dust and mold impact.
Technology
High-resolution digital capture using advanced camera scanning technology is employed, following professional standards.
Quality
Each photograph undergoes manual digitization on-site, involving cropping, rotation, and color correction to ensure optimal quality.
Results
The end result is high quality digital files that can be easily organized, printed, shared and used in creative projects like photo books and slideshows. We can help with that too!
Delivery
Original photos are returned after the scanning project and we send the files electronically via file sharing sites such as dropbox, google drive or on a High Speed USB drive.
Answers to common questions about scanning
Your trust and privacy are essential to my business. Other than trusted printing partners, if applicable, no other person will see and handle your photos.
The safety of your photos are a priority throughout the entirety of the process. Print photos, slides and negatives will only be touched wearing gloves, and digital files are backed up on a daily basis.
You will only pay extra for the USB drive. We do not charge extra for cropping, rotating and color correcting the scans which you may find with other providers.
We scan photo prints at 600 PPI and slides and negatives at 4,000 PPI in line with industry best practices and technical limits of photography.
Higher resolution is better only up to a point but after a certain resolution you’re just making bigger files and not getting any more useful details
In our experience UPS provides the most reliable shipping service.
Our scans look just as good as the original and with color correction adjustments likely even better.
We can scan the photos and we provide a photo restoration service as an optional extra.
We have the flexibility to scan prints, slides, negatives, albums, memorabilia and more in all sizes.
The length depends on the how many photos you have and what your specific requirements are. Contact us for a quote and a time estimate.
Yes, the high resolution of the scans are perfect to make excellent prints.
Yes, the high resolution scans allow 2x the original size.
We provide the scans in high-quality JPEG. However if you prefer, a different format such as TIFF or DNG can be provided at not additional cost, however it will increase your storage needs up to 10x
We deliver the files electronically via file sharing sites such as dropbox, google drive. For larger projects we can use High Speed USB drives or external Hard Drive and depends on the quality of scans.
Henk was very good at helping me set clear goals around my photo storage and organization.
During our first session he immediately helped solve what was an ongoing mystery about where stacks of my digital photos were stored, how to access them, and then how to integrate them into a complete library. Previously hidden from me, Henk was able to unearth my family’s history and bring it back into the present. In addition, as part of the integration and upgrade to the current operating system, he added keywords to my photos so that I could better find them later, which saved quite a bit of time on my part.
Henk can advise on backup planning, and organizational models, and provide customers with key guides to working with software so you don’t forget how to execute the plan once he leaves the project.
Henk is pleasant and flexible, willing to help with hardware as well as software. All in I recommend working with “Your Photo Assistant” for your photo organization needs.
Diana Kyrwood, Brooklyn, NY
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