Services Offered
- Personalised Photomontage USB Flash Drive or DVD
- Photographs and Photo Albums digitised to USB Flash Drive or DVD
- Slides and Transparencies to USB Flash Drive or DVD
- Photograph Restoration
- PhotoBook or Calendar
- VHS or camcorder tapes to DVD
- VHS or camcorder tapes to USB Drive for playback on TV or PC
- Video enhancement and stabilisation
- Photo-collage
- Canvas Prints
- Recovery of lost data and photos from a camera/hard drive
- How do you get the Photos and Tapes to us?
Click on the links above to get more information about the full range of services that we can provide.
For a limited time we are offering FREE CLOUD STORAGE along with any digital conversion of videos or photos/slides. More information is available here.
Although customers still request video conversion to DVD, our most popular request at the moment is transferring home videos to a USB memory drive or hard drive so that they can be played back directly from a TV.
A USB drive will hold 100's of hours of your precious memories and will provide instant access to any of them. You can also edit the videos or make your own copies to share with friends and family.
Personalised Photomontage
We take your photographs (or videos) and blend them smoothly with seamless transitions, into a movie - scanning across groups of friends or relatives or zooming into faces or places of interest.
Each photo is treated individually by us, giving the photomontage a very personal touch. Chose some music related to the content of the photos or simply have your favourite music playing in the background. You may even wish to record your own background commentary.
In order to really appreciate how fascinating these effects are you need to see the samples.
You can also view some of our more recent examples on our YouTube channel - ThePhotostoDVD.
These photomontages are very popular as gifts for special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries but are also ideal for preserving those holiday memories. Previous customers have been astounded with what can be done with a few old photographs
- Preserve your old black and white family photographs forever
- Create a photomontage of your children as they were growing up
- Make those holiday snaps much more interesting
- Give your wedding photos a new lease of life!
- Create a presentation to promote your company or business
Click here for further information about the
Photomontage.
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Photographs and Photo Albums
Any type of photograph can be digitized.
- Paper photographs
- digital photographs
- memory cards
We typically scan at 300 dpi but you can upgrade to 600 dpi if you
are looking to enlarge a photo or view it full size on a larger screen.
Your scanned photographs will be provided on a personalised DVD.
These will be accessible on a PC allowing you to print them at your
leisure. Many television DVD players will also allow a slideshow
playback. We recommend using Google's free program called
Picasa to manage
your photo collection and playback slideshows.
Our restoration service may be used to enhance the quality of the scans.
We offer:
- colour correction
- removal of spots and blemishes enhancement
- brightness & contrast enhancement
- shadow & highlights enhancement and
- red eye removal
Examples of the type of Photo Enhancement we offer can be found here
Our speciality is digitising collections of Photograph Albums.
Just imagine what could happen to your precious memories if your home
suffered from fire or water damage. Most digital collections fit onto one
DVD so by giving copies to your children, parents or brothers and
sisters they will never be lost
- No need for you to remove the photographs from the albums and potentially have their order disrupted and the photos damaged
- No matter where you live we can organize collection and return of the albums using our courier service
- We will then scan at 600dpi, trim and enhance
- You can the then further crop the photographs in order to print them.
- Rename and reorganise. This will be invaluable for future generations who wish to trace their ancestry
- Give you children and relatives copies
Give us a call and we will give you a very competitive quote.
However we recommend that you have your valuable photographs turned into what we call a photomontage. Slideshows are OK but can be a little boring. Be assured this is MUCH better than the slideshows you can produce yourself with the freebie programs that come with your computer.
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Slides and Transparencies
We can scan your mounted or unmounted 35mm slides or strips of negative or positive transparencies.
- With our enhanced service, slides are scanned at 4000dpi which captures sufficient detail for making a full page A4 print or if you need to crop or manipulate the image.
- We can also digitise most other sizes and types of slides or transparencies
Scan Samples
Some samples of what can be achieved with 35 mm slides can be seen here.
For each slide there are 4 versions:
- The original scan after trimming and artefact removal.
- The second version shows Basic Enhancement which is provided as standard.
- Version 3 shows what can be achieved with a higher level of enhancement.
- The final version shows additional face enhancement.
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PhotoBook or Calendar
Why create a
PhotoBook? Perhaps you have yellowing photos falling out of your old photo albums because the adhesive corners have lost their stick or you have lots of great digital photos on your computer that you hardly ever look at anymore. There are just too many and it is too complicated to look at every photo separately on the screen.
PhotoBooks are much more convenient to have on hand to share or relive memories with friends. With our PhotoBook’s superior quality you will relive memories of great holidays, celebrations, and outings again and again.
A PhotoBook is also a wonderful and individual present for any occasion.
You have the choice of hard or soft cover and if you wish we can add a high gloss page finish for a printing result that will astonish you and your friends with photos that almost jump off the page.
Alternatively we can create a personalised Calendar from your photos.
Prices from £35.00 for a 26 page Personalised PhotoBook or Photo Calendar.
Click here for information about prices.
Contact us for a personalised quote.
Return to top Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of videotapes - aging home movies shot with a big, bulky camcorder that may not even work anymore.
Soon you will not even be able to play your video at all! So what can
you do to preserve your precious memories?
For the reasons above and many more, USB Flash Drives are becoming the
mainstream, and VHS is becoming obsolete.
We can convert all types of video formats to USB Flash Drive
VHS and Camcorder Videos
to USB Flash Drive or DVD
It is a sad fact, but magnetic tapes do not last
forever. They start to degrade
after only a couple of years, and after a few more years, you will begin
to see a noticeable difference in the video quality. You may notice that your wedding video is not as sharp as it used to be,
or there is some intermittent snow in the video, colour distortion, or
even missing parts on the tape.
VHS or camcorder tapes to USB Flash Drive
This is currently our most popular request.
The digitized videos are available as MP4
(recommended for Smart TVs) format which can be stored on your hard drive or
USB memory stick and edited on software such as Microsoft Movie maker or iMovie
which are both free with your computer.
They can be played directly from the USB input of your TV which saves
having to load and unload DVDs. You can also make as many copies of them
as you require for family and friends. The cost is comparable with
digitisation to DVDs.
If you have a file in an unusual format and you would like to have it converted to a different format,
give us a call and we
be happy to help you.
Both videos and photographs can be combined in our photomontage to
produce something exceptional. Simply tell us the timings of the video
sections you require and we will do the rest
Information about prices is available here
Photograph Manipulation and Restoration
Do you have photos that need to be retouched? restored? coloured?
Some of the things we can do:
- Repair scratches, creases and tears
- Remove marks and blemishes
- Piece back together torn photographs
- Recreate missing sections
- Revive the colour in faded photographs
- Create a montage of your favourite photographs
- Colour tint black and white photographs
- Enhanced photographs can be printed to any size up to A4 or supplied in a CD
Examples of the type of Photo Enhancement we offer can be found here
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Photograph Collages
How about a collage of photos for your son or daughter's 21st birthday?
Combine your favourite photographs into groups of your own choosing.- wedding pictures
- anniversary pictures
- Christmas gatherings
- birthday celebrations
- surprise parties
- graduations
- retirement parties
- new babies
- pets
Click here for information about prices.
Canvas Prints
Our canvas prints are a great way to display your digital photos and Collages.
The canvas prints are custom hand stretched over a strong anti-warping stretcher frame. Various different sizes are available
Contact us for more information
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Westhill Commemorative DVD
Memories of over 40 years of Westhill and surrounding district.
This photomontage uses photographs taken by "Postie Fraser" and his family to show how Westhill has dramatically changed since the development of the new town in the early 1970s.
The DVD will be available soon.
Click here for more information
Type of DVD disc
PHOTOStoDVD DVDs are produced in DVD-R format unless you request the
alternative
DVD+R format for your project. Most modern DVD players and PCs are designed to read DVD-R discs, as well as other formats. However, please refer to your manual if you are unsure.
You can check which type of disc is best for your machine on here
How do you get the Photos and Tapes to us?
We serve the whole of the UK
and Ireland and for the last 8 years have offered
a prompt and efficient service to
many destinations throughout England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the
last 12 months alone we have had major orders from as far apart as Skye, London and
Wales.
You can either post them to us or we can arrange our courier service
to collect and return them to you. We would always suggest that you
use Recorded Delivery.
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