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    Seven Lessons for Organizing Photos

    Before I launched Chaos to Memories, I scanned and organized my entire Family Photo Archive back to 1904. Here are the lessons I learned…

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    Why do we use USB thumb drives for project delivery?

    Every year we organize millions of photos for our clients, and we’ve noticed five consistent emotions reflected in every project.

  • Five Tips to Take Photos that are Easier to Organize

    Five Tips to Take Photos that are Easier to Organize

    Every year we organize millions of photos for our clients, and we’ve noticed five consistent emotions reflected in every project.

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    How to choose a scanning company

    Scanning your family photos is an essential step to preserve your memories and stories for future…

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    Best Photo Scanning Setup

    At Chaos to Memories we scan tens of thousands of photos every year at high resolution and incredible quality, but would you believe we don’t use any…

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    Negatives in the wrong order?

    Most film cameras load and shoot film in order from frame 1 to frame 24 or 36. That means each frame was exposed and…

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    Scanning Unusual Photo Formats

    Our clients bring us familiar photo formats including prints, slides, and negatives, but they also bring us unusual formats and ask us if we…

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    Estimating Photo Slides

    One of the most common questions we get is about the cost of photo scanning projects. We could spend many hours counting photos to get an exact number, but instead…

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    Estimating Printed Photos

    Last week we had a new client drop off a small batch of photos she needed scanned for a memorial slideshow. To provide a quick estimate…