Scanning your precious photographs --   

• Ensure your scanner bed is free of dust or other foregin objects (hair, for example).
• Be sure to warm up the scanner lamp before scanning to ensure the best possible reproduction of colour.
• Ensure that your photos are as clean as possible and free of hair, dust and fingerprints.
• Place your photo squarely on the scanner bed ensuring that it is flat and that corners are not turned under.
  
• Preview your scanned image to ensure it has scanned properly and adjust any cropping feature to the exact size of the photograph, including any border.
• If your photograph is in more than one piece, lay out the pieces in their correct position on the bed of the scanner. Do not try to assemble the photograph or place the pieces too close together. This is roughly what you're scanned image should look like.
  

  

• Scan at a high resolution. 300 dpi is ideal. Don't scan above 2400dpi though as files will be huge.
  
• Save the scanned image as a TIFF (.tif) file if possible. If not, save as a .jpg file at the highest quality your scanner software will support.
• Remember - Information that is missing from a photograph cannot be restored. We cannot reproduce missing features, backgrounds or scenery but we can artistically recreate a version of what we see. The quality of the scan is the key to success, so taking extra care over this is paramount.
  

Once you're happy with your scanned image file, go to our Contact page for details of where to send it and how to request a quote.