Digital Imaging Scanning

We scan your photos at up to 600 DPI and provide you with up an image of both the front of the photo, as well as the back to capture any hand-written descriptions.

We can scan photos as small as 2″ by 2″ up to 8.5″ by 120″ (no, that is not a typo, we can scan that panoramic school photo you have from middle school)

Below are the different options you have, our pricing is the same for any option.

If you're just looking for a simple image, this is the option.  You get the following:

• A .jpg image of the direct scan of the front of your photo
• A second scan of the back of the photo to save any hand-written description

You'll still get the same quality images from Option 1, with with an addition:

• Additional (third) .jpg image that is auto enhanced for brightness, contrast, saturation, red-eye removal, and restoration of faded colors.

The best part - there is no additional charge for the extra image! Our scanning software can do this automatically.  Since it is just a matter of checking a box we won't charge you anything extra to add enhanced version.

The photo gallery below gives an idea of what the auto-enhancement can do.  Compare the two images of Baby Chris with Grandpa and the image of Chris with Lego's.  

The older photos can show significant improvement.  Newer photos, like the one at the lake, you see a slight improvement in the coloring of the lake but its not as pronounced of a difference.

If you want to do your own editing down the road, this option may be for you.  Instead of receiving the images as .jpg you'll receive them as .tif.  

You still get the scanned images of both the front and the back of the photo (no auto-enhanced with this option).

The benefit of the .tif file is that it doesn't compress so you don't have the loss of image fidelity that you can with jpg.  The downside is that your file sizes are huge and a .tif file is not as universally usable as a .jpg.