Before deciding whether or not to get the old media digitized, ask yourself these three precious questions:
But why digitize at all? Storing them online is convenient and clutter-free… Digitizing the archives and vintage media enable us to store them online. This way, we get a better chance to preserve our memories for a longer time as compared to keeping those shoeboxes where media can deteriorate significantly. Another reason to consider digitizing your media is the hassle to store them in physical form. Getting those memories scanned by any negative scanning services saves us all the clutter, struggle, and, most importantly, space. Exclusive personal use of old media requires digitization… Beautiful journals, scrapbooks, and other printable resources can be made using exotic old photographs and videos. Furthermore, these pictures, once in the digital form, can be used on the DIY postcard and birthday greeting cards. This way, they make great custom gifts. People feel even closer once they realize we go the extra mile and reflect on all the precious moments spent together. Digitizing helps bring family history alive… It sometimes hurts to know that the memories you cherished the most cannot be revisited only because they are damaged now. They are not in usable physical condition, and only its ashes are there in the negatives. No issues. These negatives, in this era of technology, can still be brought alive using negative scanning services. Not only that, these negatives can be scanned; they can be preserved in any format jpeg, png, tif, or even created into a video and saved as an MP4 with beautiful background music. Easy sharing… Whether the relatives are in their 60s, 70s, or even 80s, one can easily relish the precious moments, captured emotions and nostalgia with the ease to share digitized content. Photo scanning services convert our old photographs in a format where they can be easily emailed to other people. While sharing media on email is old fashioned, digitizing also enables us sharing the media via WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Vintage Media offers lucrative commercial use options… These uses of digitized vintage certainly blow one’s mind. YES. Old family archives are bought by hundreds of greeting card companies, gift making companies, independent entrepreneurs, magazine companies, and graphic designers for commercial use. These photographs are gold for book writers who plan to self-publish their fictional e-books on platforms like Kindle. Also, one of the golden rules of minimalism is to create a happy, clutter-free life. But to admit, most of the space at our homes is usually occupied by vintage stuff. Old clothes, bags, shoes, vases, photographs, negatives, and even damaged video cassettes. While getting rid of the first part of the list can be challenging, it is way easier to preserve the nostalgic senses and feelings by digitizing the media list for all these appealing reasons! |
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