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What is Metadata?
Metadata is a way to embed details inside a digital photo that allows you to search your photo archive instead…
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Course: The Practical Guide to Camera Scanning
If you’re tired of dealing with multiple scanners, unsupported software drivers, and streaky scans then it’s time to start camera scanning!
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Slide Viewing Tips
These are our recommendations for previewing slides…
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Seven Tips 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?
After we scan photos and convert home movies, we deliver most client projects on USB thumb drives because…
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Five Tips to Take Photos that are Easier to Organize
I’ve worked on millions of photos and I’ve learned a few tricks that make it easier to take photos that are easier to organize…
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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 hundreds of thousands of photos every year at high resolution and incredible quality, but would you believe we don’t use…
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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…
