Scan Slides to Digital

There are basically three ways to scan slides toPhotoshop) is if you are on a budget and if you
digital images. Slide Duplicator, scan them yourselfonly 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 yourPhoto Scanning Services will save you a lot of
digital camera's lens mounts. It allows you to croptime and can be finished digitizing your slides in a
in the center and all four sides. When you aretimely fashion. The companies that convert slides
finished cropping, your are ready to "digitize" yourto images are done by professionals and will
slides. However, the bad part of the slidemake your pictures look like it was taken
duplicator is that it's not that fast. Sure, it's ok ifyesterday. On your part, you just need to fill out
you have just a few slides, but if you havean order form and send in the slides to the
hundreds, it can pump out around five slides percompany of your choice. Prices vary and you
minute if you know what you are doing. Also, ifmay want to get online to see what kind of
you are using anything other than a monitor toreputations 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 slidesand have time on your hands, you may want to
with film scanners. These type of slide scannersgo with the slide duplicator. However, most people
has great resolution and can come bundled withhave many slides of vacations, events, etc. - not
Photoshop. I love Photoshop and it can really do ato 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 (andslide scanning services.