What would you grab from your home if you had to suddenly leave? The photo albums? Photographic slides and old negatives? Family movies? Your files with your insurance information, deeds, and tax history? Your family bible? Medical records?

Disasters strike suddenly, leaving you no time to make crucial decisions like what to take while fleeing from your house. Ovenlight's archival services can protect all your family's important documents and pictures by digitally scanning them and storing them electronically.

Ovenlight's archival service will create a comprehensive record of your family history, putting all your important documents, photos, and memories in one place. Not only will you be able to quickly access important documents in emergencies, you'll be able to keep thousands of memories at your fingertips. Ovenlight's high quality archival methods mean that your memories will be beautifully preserved - so everyone in your family can share!

Scanning photos and pictures is a time consuming task. It's totally worth it though. When you digitize family photos, you are choosing to preserve family memories from loss including fire, water, theft, loss, and the simple faxt is. Photos are decaying organic matter. The older the photo the more important the need for scanning.

Scanning is more than a photocopy. By that i mean, you don't just drop the picture on the scanner that came with your PC (2 years ago) and hit scan.

I like to think that you only have to do this once. You are going to create a Digital Master. Scan, Restore, Perfect and Save as the Orgiginal. From there you can distribute copies that are small enough to email while retaining an original that can be printed at 8x10.

Digital Master Files are high density, color corrected, blemmish free images. They contain all of the metadata (who what where, when) and take up at least 30MB (Megabytes) of disc space.

I'm no math Magician but lets say you have 5 photo albums with 150 photos in each album...At 30MB an image you would need 36 Gigabytes of Disc space for these images.

Note that opening and manipulating a 30 Megabyte file efficiently requires signigicant computing power.

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Looking through photos can bring back great memories - whether they're of big events like birthday parties, graduations, or family trips or simple accounts of bathtime or a picnic on a summer day.

However, loose photographs in shoeboxes, on refrigerators, or in drawers, can be easily damaged by improper storage, sun or water damages, heat, spills or carelessness. Disasters like fires and floods can ruin these pictures forever. Don't let precious memories be tainted by scratches or stains, or lost for good.

Ovenlight's loose photograph archival service will scan and organize all your loose pictures, and if necessary, correct any mars or scratches that have accumulated over time. Our archival specialists will meet with your family to discuss organization and preservation techniques. You can choose to send your loose pictures to our archival lab, or we can scan and organize at your home.

Don't live close to our lab? We'll provide you with a safe, secure method to send your loose pictures to our lab. High quality, easily accessible loose photos are not only loss-proof, but easily accessible and easily shared. Keep your family memories close at hand by preserving your loose pictures with Ovenlight's loose picture archival service.