Products
- Personalised Photomontage DVD
- Photographs digitized to DVD
- Slides and Transparencies to DVD
- VHS or camcorder tapes to DVD
- Photograph Restoration
- Photo-collage
- Website Design
Personalised Photomontage
We take your photographs (or videos) and blend them smoothly with seamless transitions, into a movie - scanning across groups of friends or relatives or zooming into faces or places of interest.
Each photo is treated individually by us, giving the photomontage a very personal touch. Chose some music related to the content of the photos or simply have your favourite music playing in the background. You may even wish to record your own background commentary.
In order to really understand how fascinating these effects are you need to watch the samples. Click here to see various samples.
These photomontages are very popular as gifts for special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries but are also ideal for preserving those holiday memories. Previous customers have been astounded with what can be done with a few old photographs
- Preserve your old black and white family photographs forever
- Create a photomontage of your children as they were growing up
- Make those holiday snaps much more interesting
- Give your wedding photos a new lease of life!
- Create a presentation to promote your company or business
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Photomontage.
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Photographs
Any type of photograph can be digitized.
- Paper photographs
- digital photographs
- memory cards
We typically scan at 300 dpi but you can upgrade to 600 dpi if you
are looking to enlarge a photo or view it full size on a larger screen.
Your scanned photographs will be provided on a personalised DVD.
These will be accessible on a PC allowing you to print them at your
leisure. Many television DVD players will also allow a slideshow
playback.
Our restoration service may be used to enhance the quality of the scans.
We offer:
- colour correction
- removal of spots and blemishes enhancement
- brightness & contrast enhancement
- shadow & highlights enhancement and
- red eye removal
However we recommend that you have your valuable photographs turned into what we call a photomontage. Slideshows are OK but can be a little boring. Be assured this is MUCH better than the slideshows you can produce yourself with the freebie programs that come with your computer.
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Slides and Transparencies
We can scan your mounted
or unmounted 35mm slides or strips of negative or
positive transparencies.
- With our basic service slides are scanned at 1000dpi which captures sufficient detail for making a 6x4 inch print using an inkjet printer or viewing you photographs on a PC.
- With our enhanced service slides are scanned at 2000dpi which captures sufficient detail for making a full page A4 print on an inkjet printer, or if you need to crop or manipulate the image.
- Our premium service for the professional photographer uses scans of 4000dpi. This permits poster size printing at A3 size from a 35mm original!
Scan Samples
The following images were scanned at 1000 and 4000 dpi to JPEG files and reduced to thumbnail size for presentation on this page. You can click on the links below to see the full-sized 1000 dpi images along with the full-sized 4000 dpi images. The full-sized images will exhibit the amount of detail that can be captured from a printed photo at the two different levels.
1000 dpi
4000 dpi
Click on the links above and the samples will open in a new window.
You will not be able to see any difference on the web page. Right click anywhere in the new window and then save to your desktop so that you can open them in a viewer program such as Windows Picture and Fax viewer.
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VHS and Camcorder Videos
Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of videotapes - aging home movies shot with a big, bulky camcorder that may not even work anymore.
It is a sad fact, but magnetic tapes do not last
forever. They start to degrade
after only a couple of years, and after a few more years, you will begin
to see a noticeable difference in the video quality. You may notice that your wedding video is not as sharp as it used to be,
or there is some intermittent snow in the video, colour distortion, or
even missing parts on the tape.
Soon you will not even be able to play your video at all! So what can you do to preserve your precious memories?
- DVDs offer many advantages such as:
- No rewinding!
- There is no magnetic coating that can wear away with each use,
which is the case with tapes
- Menus and chapter points (bookmarks) allow you to skip to
certain scenes instantly
- Quick forward/backward scanning and searching
- DVDs take up less space than VHS tapes
- Since a DVD is digital, any copies are exactly the same as the
original with no loss of quality!
- A DVD can be be put into a computer so that you can capture
still scenes for printing photos.
- Zoom-in features (if your DVD player supports it)
- If handled properly (like a CD), a DVD can last over 100 years!
For the reasons above and many more, DVDs are becoming the
mainstream, and VHS is becoming obsolete.
We can convert all types of video formats to DVD -
- VHS
- VHS-C
- camcorder tapes
- 8mm Video
- Hi8
- Digital 8
Our basic service allows us to fit 2 hours of video on to each DVD.
This can be a combination of several smaller videos or tapes. The screen
menu provides thumbnail pictures of each video and inserts chapter marks
every 5 minutes for ease of access and viewing on PC or TV.
Both videos and photographs can be combined in our photomontage to produce something
exceptional. Simply tell us the timings of the video sections you require and we will do the rest.
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Photograph
Manipulation and Restoration
Do you have photos that need to be retouched? restored? coloured?
Some of the things we can do:
- Repair scratches, creases and tears
- Remove marks and blemishes
- Piece back together torn photographs
- Recreate missing sections
- Revive the colour in faded photographs
- Create a montage of your favourite photographs
- Colour tint black and white photographs
- Enhanced photographs can be printed to any size up to A4 or supplied in a CD
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Photograph Collages
How about a collage of photos for your son or daughter's 21st birthday?
Combine your favourite photographs into groups of your own choosing.
- wedding pictures
- anniversary pictures
- Christmas gatherings
- birthday celebrations
- surprise parties
- graduations
- retirement parties
- new babies
- pets
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Westhill
Commemorative DVD
Memories of over 40 years of Westhill and surrounding district.
This photomontage uses photographs taken by "Postie Fraser" and his family to show how Westhill has dramatically changed since the development of the new town in the early 1970s.
The DVD will be available soon.
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Type of DVD disc
PHOTOStoDVD DVDs are produced in DVD-R format unless you request the
alternative
DVD+R format for your project. Most modern DVD players and PCs are designed to read DVD-R discs, as well as other formats. However, please refer to your manual if you are unsure.
You can check which type of disc is best for your machine on here