| There are basically three ways to scan slides to | | | | Photoshop) is if you are on a budget and if you |
| digital images. Slide Duplicator, scan them yourself | | | | only use it once, it really isn't worth it. You might |
| with a film scanner or a slide scanning service. | | | | go with another plan. |
| A slide duplicator is a device that attaches to your | | | | Photo Scanning Services will save you a lot of |
| digital camera's lens mounts. It allows you to crop | | | | time and can be finished digitizing your slides in a |
| in the center and all four sides. When you are | | | | timely fashion. The companies that convert slides |
| finished cropping, your are ready to "digitize" your | | | | to images are done by professionals and will |
| slides. However, the bad part of the slide | | | | make your pictures look like it was taken |
| duplicator is that it's not that fast. Sure, it's ok if | | | | yesterday. On your part, you just need to fill out |
| you have just a few slides, but if you have | | | | an order form and send in the slides to the |
| hundreds, it can pump out around five slides per | | | | company of your choice. Prices vary and you |
| minute if you know what you are doing. Also, if | | | | may want to get online to see what kind of |
| you are using anything other than a monitor to | | | | reputations the companies have. |
| view the slides, you will lose some sharpness. | | | | My opinion is that if you have just a few slides |
| The second one is that you can scan your slides | | | | and have time on your hands, you may want to |
| with film scanners. These type of slide scanners | | | | go with the slide duplicator. However, most people |
| has great resolution and can come bundled with | | | | have many slides of vacations, events, etc. - not |
| Photoshop. I love Photoshop and it can really do a | | | | to mention having no time on their hands, that's |
| good job cleaning or altering your images. | | | | when you call the calvary in, which would be the |
| However, the down side of the film scanner (and | | | | slide scanning services. |