Photo Scanning Service

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Send us your loose photo prints up to A4 size to be professionally scanned in to digital format and preserved for life.

For Sizes larger than an A4 Sheet of paper and up to A3 please use our XL Photo service (below)

For damaged, glue mounted or stuck in albums please see bottom of this page.

 Standard size A4 210mm × 297mm

XL Size A3 297mm × 420mm

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Photos should be removed from photo albums if they are stuck or not removed then we can still scan them however they will have a surcharge due to the extra time – See bottom of this page

 

Price Brackets

 

 1-49

50+

500+

The more you send in the cheaper it is per scan

Any tax or shipping costs are show on our checkout page

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Standard size

Loose Prints

From 28p

 

 

126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.

 


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126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.

 


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Prints scanned from an album/card mounted/glue backed/ damaged or Polaroid

 

From 64p

 

*see below

126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.

 


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126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.

 


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From £3.25

XL Size

(A4 up to A3 in size)

126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.


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126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.


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Extended Length Photo

e.g. Entire school

£20

(extended length over 39cm)

126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.


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126 Format Slide - Viewable frame size 26.5mm x 26.5mm.


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Average File Size Depends of original photo size Depends of original photo size
Resolution

DPI

600dpi

Pixels – Depends of original photo size

 

600dpi

Pixels – Depends of original photo size

 

Saved as Jpeg Tiff
Dust Removal Yes Digital Ice & Compressed Air

*please see note below

Yes Digital Ice & Compressed Air

*please see note below

Colour Correction

(Colour correction off is an option, just ask prior to scanning)

Full Digital ROC Full Digital ROC
Grain Noise Reduction Full Digital GEM Full Digital GEM
Contrast and Exposure

Full Digital SHO

Technology

Full Digital SHO Technology
Rotation YES YES
Cropping Automatic Automatic
General Information

 

 

 

This is the service that 90% of our customers use. Great for the home and family photos

 

All images scanned in Jpg format at

600dpi

 

All images manually cropped and image corrected using ICE technology.

 

Home service uses multi-pass scanning technology for up to 16 scan passes for faithful reproduction and smoother gradation where required

 

DIGITAL ICE – Removes most Surface Defects

DIGITAL ROC – Restores and Corrects Colour
FULL DIGITAL GEM – Reduces Film Grain Noise
DIGITAL SHO – Optimizes Contrast and Exposure

 

Do not send albums, Photos must be removed from albums

 

 

All images scanned in TIFF format at 600dpi

TIFF Technology is a loss less compression used for printing larger images at for example A3 format

 

Professional service uses multi-pass scanning technology for up to 16 scan passes for faithful reproduction and smoother gradation where required.

 

All images manually cropped and image corrected using ICE technology.

 

DIGITAL ICE – Removes most Surface Defects

DIGITAL ROC – Restores and Corrects Colour
FULL DIGITAL GEM – Reduces Film Grain Noise
DIGITAL SHO – Optimizes Contrast and Exposure

Do not send albums, Photos must be removed from albums

DIGITAL ICE Technology – Removes most Surface Defects (dust and scratches) –

Please note that photo prints are very static so attract very small fragments of dust, we do all we can to remove this dust before scanning and also use software to reduce the effect afterwards it is not guaranteed to be 100% dust free, especially with older and darker photos. If additional work is required on your images we can offer you or photo restore service to remove all marks using Photoshop.
 

DIGITAL ROC Technology – Restores and Corrects Colour – if you don’t require colour to be restored please let us know this on your paperwork.


DIGITAL GEM Technology – Reduces Film Grain Noise

*Scanning from Photo Albums/Damaged or glue mounted photos

We do ask that all photos are removed from photo albums where possible, if it is not possible to remove a photo from an album without damaging it then we can scan from the album directly.

  • Due to the extra amount of time this takes we charge more for this service as priced above.
  • This includes photos mounted to card or previously mounted on card or in albums that still have hard/part card on back.
  • If photos are scanned from an album sometimes the edges may have  focus issues due to the thickness of the album and how close they are to the spine edge. The only way to solve this and get the focus 100% would be to remove or cut the photo from the album (Customer decission).
  • If albums have clear film covering photos then we will scan directly through this, sometimes this may be slightly visible on the scan but most of the time its fine. It will also attract more dust particles to the image which can be noticable.
  • Each photo will be scanned as a separate image
  • Overlapping photos will either be cropped or contain overlapped part as per the album layout.
  • Scanning of artwork is covered by our photo scanning service however we can never guarantee exact colour match to art work due to the way scanners see pencil or paint.
  • If photos have been removed from album and still have glue or tape mounted to the back then they still need to be scanned using our album mounted service due to the thickness of the photo.
  • This also includes card or glass mounted photos.

 

Image order and Grouping – We are sorry it is not possible guarantee any particular order or groups. With printed photographs we use multiple scanners where photo order sequences are not possible. We will do all we can to group together. If photos are grouped in small groups less than 25 then there is an additional image grouping charge per group folder.

 

 

Professional film archive scanning of photo albums to Digital download or USB stick

High resolution photo scanning