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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Understand The Importance Of Digitizing Photos

By Velma Joseph


A few years you had to make sure that you keep all negatives you had. After rolls and rolls of film, you may end up with hundreds of negatives that you would have to go through if you want to develop a certain picture. Not only is that time consuming but it is also frustrating. Digitizing photos is now the best way to be able to store them in a more organized manner.

You do not even have to just stick with pictures. More and more things are being saved in soft copy versions. This just makes it more organized and you do not have to worry about space and where to put this and that.

You may be wondering how something so synthetic can ever replace those glossy prints you have in your shoebox. Here are some of the common reasons why more people are beginning to see the advantages of getting these things digitized.

You can easily edit the images. Files may be cropped or cut accordingly. Editing may be done to suit what you need it for. Change the color or saturation. Make a collage out of all other images you have stored. What could limit you would be your software and creativity, that is it.

Images are more accessible. It helps to understand its relevance when you need to send an image to someone in real time. With this type of archiving, you can always email them. Or, save them in a portable drive and bring it with you. Archaic objects which are fragile can now be easily seen by an audience, at least copies of it would be seen.

When you make it more accessible, you are creating awareness. And this is also a good way to provide education of diverse materials to a remotely located audience. If you can scan it, you can save it. If you can save it in your drive, you can send it to the web. If it is on the web, you can access it from anywhere that has internet connectivity.

Images are easily stored and preserved. This is of great importance when you have quite a number of prints. When you archive it, it is stored and classified accordingly. It is easier to look for something when you have it this way.

Preservation is possible because you are minimizing the handling of fragile originals. Instead of passing the original around, you only need to show the copy. And should anything happen to the original, you get to have a back up.

Those are only some ways that digitizing photos can be used. Knowing how it can be used lets one see the relevance it has. This way of storing, archiving and organizing will go on for years. And it can only get better in the next few years.




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