Friday, April 22, 2011

Two Good Paths To Digitizing Photos

By Odessa Fowler


It seems to growing numbers of consumers that the world of physical, printed photographs is rapidly transforming into a world of digital imagery. Larger and larger numbers of people are gaining access to advanced versions of cellular phones and other devices that come with picture taking capabilities and internet connections and hordes those same people are joining networking websites where digital images are a prerequisite. Thus, digitizing photos is becoming a necessary task, if not an absolute requirement.

One of the biggest reasons behind the expansion of demand for digital images is the proliferation and popularity of social networking sites. A huge draw of many of these websites is the ability to share multiple aspects of ones life through photographs; which can't be done without digitizing them first.

Of the plethora of new cellular and hand held devices on the market, most are equipped with some sort of camera software, a fact which is allowing unprecedented creation and sharing of digital photographs. Myriad companies offer competing services for the conversion of your pictures to a digital format, and/or you can always try to learn the craft for yourself.

To convert your pictures, all one really needs is a computer; gaining access to numerous companies which offer digitization services can be as simple as conducting an online search. The consumer demand for the ability to share images online, to use them for presentations, online resumes, etc., is too great for companies not to fill that demand.

Additionally, once an image has been converted, a range of editing programs make it so that photos can be tweaked in numerous ways that were previously unavailable. Options like re-sizing, the touching up of red eye, the shifting of brightness, contrast and even color correction are offered at various price ranges.

Further, some companies have expanded to include various suggestions for what to do with your converted, edited photographs once the entire process is complete. Things like professional portfolio books, scrap books, thematic photo collections for albums, and others are becoming part of standard offerings. One final benefit to digital imagery is the amount of space it takes up in comparison to a traditional photo- hundreds of images can be saved in relatively tiny thumb drives, hard drives and even on many cellular phones.

In the end, digitizing photos is quite simply translating them from a two-dimensional form, to a file format any computer can read, store, and share. Finding a company that will do it for you can definitely save you a lot of time, and the options for what becomes possible tend to multiply depending on who you go with.

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