Getting your prints scanned in Lethbridge is not hard at all. Lethbridge is home to one of Canada’s best photo restoration and digitization companies in Paterson Photography / First Choice Photo. We are able to scan all ages of prints as well as all sizes of prints. Having your old family photos scanned is a worthwhile endeavor that offers numerous benefits and safeguards. Preserving your precious memories for future generations.
Here are a number of reasons why you should have your family prints scanned:
- Preservation and Protection: Old photos are susceptible to damage and deterioration over time. Factors like aging, moisture, sunlight, and mishandling damage many family memories. Digitizing your photos allows you to create high-quality digital copies that can be stored safely. This protects them from physical harm, such as fading, tearing, or loss, ensuring their longevity.
- Easy Accessibility: With digitized photos, you can access your entire family photo collection with just a few clicks. No more rummaging through boxes or albums to find a particular photo. Digital copies allow you to organize and categorize your images. Making your photos searchable by dates, events, or individuals, simplifying the process of locating specific pictures or memories.
- Convenient Sharing: You are able to easily share the digital photos with family members, friends, or distant relatives regardless of their location. Instead of mailing physical copies, you can quickly send digital files via email, messaging apps, or social media platforms. This facilitates effortless sharing and strengthens family bonds by enabling everyone to relive and cherish cherished memories together.
Reasons to restore your photos
- Restoration, Enhancement & Additional Prints: Over time, old photos can suffer from color fading, scratches, or other damage. Digitizing them opens up possibilities for restoration and enhancement. I can restore the faded colors, repair physical damage, remove blemishes, or even enhance the overall quality of the images. By digitizing your old photos, you can preserve their original beauty or even improve them. ALSO once digitized you can have additional copies made to share with family and friends along with the digital files.
- Backup and Disaster Recovery: Single physical copies of family photos are vulnerable to disasters like fires, floods, or other unforeseen events. Once you have your prints scanned, and have additional copies printed, and storing them in multiple locations your memories can easily recovered in case of an unfortunate event. This ensures that your irreplaceable family memories remain protected even in the face of unexpected circumstances.
- Legacy and Genealogy: Digitized photos serve as a valuable resource for genealogical research and preserving family history. They provide a visual narrative of your family’s past, allowing future generations to connect with their heritage and understand their roots. You can then easily share the digital copies with genealogists or incorporated into family history projects, ensuring that your legacy endures.
In conclusion, digitizing your old family photos is a meaningful investment. It protects and preserves your precious memories, enhances accessibility and sharing, allows for restoration and enhancement, provides backup and disaster recovery options, and contributes to your family’s legacy. Embracing the digital age ensures that future generations can relish and learn from the rich visual history captured in your family’s photographs.
Call today and get your prints scanned before it is to late!!
Pricing
Scans from original prints and documents up to 8.5×11, 35mm, 120mm, 220mm slides & negatives $2.99
Quantity discount on scanning is available
11 -25 – $1.99
26 – 100 – $1.79
101 plus – $1.49
Oversize original for original prints above 8.5×11 or large format negatives is $24.99 set-up and first scan then $14.99 per image after the first one
My high resolution files from your originals will allow us to print up to 24×36 copies (depending on quality of the original)
If you want your digital files you can have them sent electronically or saved to a USB that you provide – $5 or burnt to a DVD I provide $10
ALL work done locally – NO shipping your precious memories to who knows where.
Work done in as little as one hour!
