Photos

Photos must be presented to us loose (i.e. not in any albums etc) with nothing attached to them. Photos must be stacked smallest to largest and facing upright, if a photo is sent to us upside down it will be scanned upside down. We do not sort your photos at all. All photos must be lying horizontally regardless of orientation. If you have photos you want to be scanned in the correct orientation they must be provided in separate bundles (i.e. a bundle of landscape photos and a separate bundle of portrait photos). For larger quantities of black and white photos these should be stacked separately so we can optimize the scanning. If additional sorting is required by us, it will incur an additional charge that will not exceed $25. Photos must be able to bend through 180 degrees for bulk scanning (i.e. not mounted on a hard card) Photos that cannot be scanned through our shoebox scanning service can be scanned for additional $3 per photo.

We recommend bundling your loose photos in stacks of 150 — 200 with rubber band rather than bags to avoid shifting in transit.

Slides

All slides will be scanned in a landscape format, or if you select “Rotate my images” on the order form we will make sure they are all the correct orientation. They can however be rotated by you on your own computer. Slides that aren’t full frame will have a border surrounding your image. Also borders may occur on full frame slides, due to variations in slide mounts. All your slides should be delivered with the emulsion (shiny) side facing one direction. Slides will be scanned in the order provided to us as long as it is clearly noted on this form. All slides will be blown for dust, but if cleaning is required it will incur an extra cost. Many people only view their scanned slides on the television. In this case order DVD’s instead of CD’s as they will load on your DVD player for immediate screening on your TV. The “movie” option sets your slides to automatically scroll on your TV & you may pause or fast forward as you require. Titles can be added & should you choose to group your slides into events we can create seperate folders with titles for each event ie “Our Wedding”, “Xmas 1966″ “Mary,s 1st Birthday Party” etc. Use your imagination to make the DVD a real family treasure.