of my family to put on a CD. Where would be the best place to go for quality and trust worthiness. These pics are priceless and one of a kind with no negative. THere can be no chance of a mess up. Kinkos? Anywhere else?
2006-09-24 20:04:29 · 7 answers · asked by ananswerer 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
do not go to kinkos!!! i have had many bad experiences with kinkos.
try going to a local professional which is highly recommended. perhaps ask your local historical museum for advice and they may recommend someone or they might do it for you at a cost. I'm wondering, why can't you just do it yourself, you just need a really great scanner. you then have control and handling of the photos, and probably would be slightly cheaper too
2006-09-24 20:08:35 · answer #1 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are ambitious and are not afraid of learning new things I would suggest archiving and restoring the photos on your own. How? Well with Photoshop and a $129 scanner from Epson. Granted Photoshop costs a lot of money but I am sure that if you ask someone you know I am sure you can get a copy, and if not, well I believe this scanner comes with a free copy of photoshop elements which will get the job done just the same as the full version, which although great, has a lot of features you may not use. I myself am in the photo restoration business and can tell you that for what we charge you, you can do just the same with a little bit of guidance from a book on photo restoration and photoshop which you can find on amazon.com. Furthermore, once you are done scanning all your photos, not only will you have some nice photos, but you will have something else, valuable knowledge to help others with similar projects, and a scanner.
2006-09-25 10:55:00 · answer #2 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to a local single owner lab where the photos will stay on premises. Warehousephoto.com does this well. Donna, the lab tech there, will do a good job. They keep this type of work in house. Use Fex Ex or a delivery service requiring a signature. Insuring the package is not useful as proving value is difficult.
If some of the photos have silver coming to the surface of the paper, they will not scan well. If they have a texture or weave to the paper, they may not scan well. These should be copied with a digital camera and a copy stand to mininmize this flaw. It is pricey to have this done correctly. You are looking at around $10.00 per image. It would be to your advantage to set up a couple of tungsten lights and a copy stand and use a digital camera do do this. I do restoration work. You can send me the difficult items to bid on. You can see samples of my work on www.digitaldooda.com Go to the "Before and After" button.
2006-09-25 11:40:33 · answer #3 · answered by digitaldooda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are truly antique pics, the local historical society can probably recommend the best methods based on preserving the originals... Fedex Kinkos or any regular commercial place will not have the equipment or the experience to even know if they are damaging the pics or not.
2006-09-25 07:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by moore850 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fedex Kinkos is the place!
It is purely hand placement onto the glass to scan them in, there is no feeding them into the scanners, therefore they can't be torn or ripped. Just ask that they be kept in the managers office and that the night crew scan it since it is slow and they will have the time to take best care. I had family photos dating back to FOREVER and Kinkos did an excellent job.
2006-09-25 03:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
scan it by yourself.
a good photo scanner is around 150 $.
They are very intuitive to use and user friendly.
You can make several trials without any problems.
With 200 pictures to scan, it is even economically sound.
2006-09-25 06:25:07 · answer #6 · answered by didier l 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Go to an AVID lab, or an ATLAB
2006-09-25 05:23:36 · answer #7 · answered by jobe j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋