What do you do when you are stuck at home for more than a year? Scheme, scan, create, and plan for the return of more normal times. During the interruption in our lives I received many projects handed off carefully from masked people who were revealed to me in their photographs, slides and other materials we scanned during the pandemic. Here are a few of those life savers of isolation.
Scanning photographs-We scanned thousands of photographs both with our high-speed scanner and our flatbed scanner. Along the way we used photoshop to repair and enhance many of the oldest images.
Scanning slides-Eric L brought us 2000 slides which we hand scanned in less than a week. We also organized the disorganized images for him into folders before delivery. Just recently we purchased a bulk slide scanner that allows up to double our weekly output for even larger collections of slides.
Creating placemats-Earl M had memorabilia from his fathers classic diners in California stashed away in a oversized envelope for many years. We had done several projects for his wife Kathy and they came up with the idea that those menus, business cards and old photos would make a great theme for a family dinner. So we turned the individual images into collage placemats for their special event. See Earl’s comments on the gallery page.
Creating oversized prints for framing and hanging-several customers had standard prints they loved and wanted to enlarge them for framing. We digitized the prints using a high resolution during the process and sent them out for mounting on foam core board.
Flip books from digitized photos-One of the unique services we offer is turning old picture albums into computerized flip books. It’s nice to keep the albums physical features intact as a virtual album clients can share with anyone right in any web browser. This works great for scrap books as well.
One of the most unique projects we tackled was from a retired U.S. Ambassador to several African nations. She asked if we could digitized her personal letters from abroad over many decades for donation to a college along with her collection of African art. We took many extra hours to organized the boxes full of correspondence chronologically before we even warmed up the scanner. We delivered digital files organized by year and month in PDF form. We even recreated a few letters that had faded or were damaged over the decades and did not scan well.
Over the past 24 months we produced and delivered digital audio recordings from seventy-year-old LP’s, captured video from old video tape formats including Hi8, VHS and VHSc, solved mysteries of unknown 8mm film from the 1940’s and assisted several clients with Apple computer support and training..
We look forward to seeing your images and other media in healthier days ahead and with a little luck maybe no mask. :^)