Interesting Option for us Digi-Scrappers

[ColleenSwerb]

Ok, so I KNOW I'm not the only one who's got boxes of pictures sitting around the house from before digital cameras (which really wasn't that long ago, if you think about it.....scary).

ANYWAY. I came across a topic over at MSA about sending those photos out to have a company scan them for you and put them on DVD's. Someone else posted a link to Janet Phillip's blog and a post from last May where she talked about this place: scanmyphotos.com

Has anyone else ever done this? I would LOVE to go through photos with my mom and send a box out and be able to scrap lots of picture from when I Was a kid. And maybe get my grand parents to fork over some pics so I could get a head start on some sort of heritage album. I was just curious if anyone has done this, or has any thoughts on it. Janet Phillips was way impressed, and that speaks volumes to me.

[jorgies5]

Do you know if they scan in negatives too? I think I would rather go that route. I have a negative scanner on my printer, but I can never make the time to do it. All of my old photos in my old scrapbooks are cut in shapes and sizes (from the good old days of paper scrapbooking) that I would consider ruined and really would NOT want scanned. With the negatives, I could get all of the photos back into their original state. Maybe I should look into it!

[ColleenSwerb]

Jenny they do indeed do negative scanning, but it's a separate option.

Here ya go

Personally I was thinking of doing the flat rate box (shipping included in the $99.95 price) and going in on it with my mom. You can put over 1600 pictures in the box (Janet did like 2200), but they have to be standard sizes (no strange shapes, just squares or rectanles). But you can put anything between 3x4 to 8x12 in the box to be scanned.

[ditzyscrap]

I'd be scared to send away all my precious original photos in the mail!!

I want to get a scanner with a photo feed on it (you just stack them up and it feeds them in one at a time), that will do negatives as well. Epson made one a few years ago and I can't find it now!

One time I told my mom to bring all her albums, I wanted to scan in my childhood photos - I worked about an hour at it, did like 4 photos...looked at the 400+ other photos I had to do and quit. LOL!

[ColleenSwerb]

You do get all the photos back from them, with the dvd's of the scanned images.

I mean mine are just sitting in boxes. I don't even have the energy to paper scrap all of them. Aside from Hybrid stuff I've almost completely converted to digi it seems. I figure I might as well do something with what I've got. (Plus I can only take SO MANY pics of my dog around the house, lol, it gets a little old sometimes.)

[ditzyscrap]

Originally Posted by BrodoNY0123

You do get all the photos back from them, with the dvd's of the scanned images.

I know, I meant if something happened to the box of photos - got lost, damaged, broke open and spilled all over...I don't trust the mail all that much, can you tell? LOL!

[joelsgirl]

i was goign to do that for my Christmas present, but my mom has all my childhood pictures in albums, so that would be a lot of work for her to pack them up and then have to put them back. I think I'm goign to do it when I'm home this coming Christmas. Thanks for linking up to the website; I'm going to bookmark it.

[ColleenSwerb]

No problem Kellie

Bree I def understand where you're coming from. I guess I just look at it from the point of view that if they are just sitting in boxes in my closet, then no one is looking at them anyway. So if they get lost, which of course would be awful and I'd be upset, I'd probably get over it since I wasn't exactly looking at them or using them all the time anyway, you know?

But then again, I only have a few years worth of prints (some from high school, a bunch from college), and nothing too major (like kids births or something), lol.