Our Services
PHOTOStoDVD specialise in transferring your photographs, slides and videos to DVD. However, our most common request by far is our photomontage which is ideal for Mum and Dad's Golden Anniversary or your daughter's 21st birthday.
We offer a fast and affordable service for converting your old
original photos to scanned images so you can keep them on your computer
along with all of your existing digital shots.
Your photographs and videos are important to you and your family and there's no
better way to protect, share and enjoy them than to convert them
to digital format.
Digital is forever. An investment in digitizing your photos is money
well spent not only for the peace of mind it can provide but for the
many new uses you'll discover for those old photos and the new smiles
you'll create by sharing and enjoying your memories in a more
contemporary way.
Conversion can be achieved from all types of original medium:
Photographs
- 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 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.
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.
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.
Have a look at the demos to see some examples of what we actually do.
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Videos
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.
If you wish to further edit the videos we can convert them to MPEG format
which you can import into Windows Movie Maker which comes free with
Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.
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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Slides and Transparencies
We can scan your mounted 35mm slides or strips of negative or
positive transparencies.
With our basic service sides are scanned at 1000dpi which captures sufficient detail for making a 6x4 print on an inkjet printer, especially 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!
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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