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don’t lose precious memories – digitize old photos

let’s clear up some clutter… and protect priceless memories.

by beth ziesenis
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i don’t know a single person who doesn’t have a pile of old family photos hidden in a closet somewhere. celebrate national pack rat day on may 17 by unpacking the memories and digitizing them so they’re safer and easier to share.

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let’s look at four options to help you protect your cherished pictures and videos:

photomyne lets you snap a picture of multiple photos at once, like photos in a photo album. then it automatically separates the photos into individual images for fine-tuning and sharing. the company also has other apps, including filmbox, which lets you use your smartphone as a darkroom. convert film negatives to digital photos with filmbox, then transfer photos to the photomyne app to arrange photos in albums and add details. a two-year plan for photomyne is $69.99 and a two-year plan for filmbox is $39.99

 

google’s photoscan essentially does the same thing, but i preferred my results from photomyne a little better. however, photoscan is free. the app is supposed to scan your photos multiple times, then stitch all the images together to remove glare and improve the quality of the final image. it works on matte or gloss prints, as well as photos inside or outside of albums.

 

if you have more than a handful of photos to scan, consider a service that will do it for you. my sister and i digitized boxes of old photos for my dad with digmypics. the conversion of his memories is the best present we ever gave him, he says. digmypics converts photos for $0.39 each. we sent them hundreds of photos through the mail. within a few days, they were online. we could delete the awful ones and just pay for the ones we wanted to keep. they then touched them up, organized them, and even printed soft-cover thumbnail books as a guide. the money we spent was totally worth it.