In order to digitize photos, you need to buy a decent scanner. If your budget allows you, a scanner can be purchased around $ 250 and should be digital photos with 1200 dpi (dots per inch). The more dots per inch, the more detailed and clearer images. If you have a fixed budget, you can still pick up a good analysis of around $ 100, and it is transferred to digital photos at 600 DPI.

When you finally select your scanner, there is a tutorial on how to connectit to your computer. It's more of a "plug 'n play" and you should have no problems and the associated installation of the driver) (Software. Before this is done, you really should create a folder for the images. You can name it anything, but on my laptop, the folder is where all my pictures - I have named "images".

Then I organized my pictures in sub-folders. An example would be a folder named "Easter_06" and other "Christmas_05. To make sureYou organize your digital photos so you know where to find different images. Again and again your digital images on a flash drive or other storage medium like a CD or DVD. You can never know if your computer does the hard drive crash (like I did last year) or attacked by a virus.

Now that the scanned images are on the computer, you may find that the picture the color is distorted, or it is bad, the lighting and the common "red eye" problem. There are some free softwareYou can become that more than able to resolve is this kind of problems. The first tool that comes to mind is from Google (where else - seems like they own) everything is permitted, the picasa.google.com fixes problems like red eye, poor color or lighting. Personally, I like their web albums, where you download your photos and share them with your family or friends.

Photoshop (by Adobe is one) would be the best way to manipulate the digitized old photos, but the current versioncosts about $ 600. However, you can buy a cheaper version of Adobe Photoshop Elements should be that the cost of about $ 100. Personally, I think this piece of software is more user friendly than Photoshop, and people who have read it say that it is stronger than picasa or other free image editing program.

Regardless of editing software you use, they are all the same, and the result can be a little different from software to software. Once you with yourEditing program, you can start by removing dust from the image, if the program has to do the function on them - edit in which most applications. Once that's done, you can change colors, you can dynamically raise as well as each image. An example, if your picture looks a little faded, you can play around with the contrast until it looks like the picture was taken the day before.

There are people who have no time to edit their pictures, they take it to digitize from a servicePhotos. These companies have more expensive scanners, and are located in the room free of dust. They are very quality oriented and you will generally receive better results.

However, you must pay a certain fee and Society price may vary. I think that if it can, at a small company, not much effort, so they can be more than a few companies charge, but in the end the quality of the images on the same will be. The cost could be as low as 40 cents per image, but isprobably cost more if the images are larger than 5 x 7. But I have seen prices as high as 80 cents per image, with some companies, but this is usually not the norm.

As for the images (as pictures after they are scanned) are restored, it depends on the age and the amount of damages. Companies can charge between $ 30 to $ 150 per photo. It will cost a small fortune, but it's worth from the restorations I've seen.

Basically, if you have your images for a few decades old, youcan do it with a quality scanner and a nice photo editing software, although I personally I would be a company that would digitize old photos professionally, especially if I have any experience with scanning. All photos that are older than age 10 to 15 years, it is best to wear it that a company digitized photos in the batch. They are very happy that you have done.