Thursday, August 22, 2013

What to Do With Your Old Wedding Photographs


Wedding photographs are a truly cherished reminder of one of the most important days of our lives. Unfortunately, like any old photograph, paper wedding photo prints can become easily damaged over time and can quite quickly begin to show their age - especially if you like to leaf through the pages of your album or photo book on a regular basis. Photo albums are meant to be viewed and they're meant to be shared and while every precaution is usually taken to try and help ensure the pictures retain their good looks this doesn't always happen.

Damaged Or Worn Wedding Photographs

There are many ways that pictures can become damaged. Even sunlight or a collection of dust can have a detrimental effect on the colours in the picture giving light to faded images, scratched surfaces, and even worn or torn photographs. It is very difficult to protect against every eventuality but for those whose wedding day was before the days of digital photography, the photo album may be the only copy of their wedding photos left in tact.

Scanning Your Photos

Scanning your own wedding photographs to the hard drive of your PC is an obvious way to offer some protection against the complete loss of your pictures. This also gives you the opportunity to use those scanned images in the creation of a new photo album or by having any of a number of other personalised photo items created. Online photo item services can be used to order personalised photo albums that include a photograph and test on the cover making them ideal as replacement wedding photo albums.

Using Professional Photo Services

Some of these same services may also be able to sympathetically work with your paper prints in order to scan them for you. This helps ensure that you get the best results and that your photos are returned to you in equally good condition as when they were sent. Some blemishes can often be removed by professional services; again, this can prove highly beneficial when working with older photographs.

A Photo Montage Of Your Big Day

Why not scan your images and have new copies printed while ordering a replacement, updated wedding photo album? Alternatively, you could have your old wedding photographs turned into a photo montage that celebrates your big day and then have this printed onto a canvas print or another high quality photo item. Another good looking alternative to the photo album is the personalised photo book.

Wedding Photos

Customised photo books are quite unique - while they offer the same kind of customised front cover as the photo album, they are also a more direct route to receiving new copies of your photos. Pictures are printed directly onto the pages of the photo book, from edge to edge and top to bottom and more complex designs can be applied to some or all of the pages to make them appear even better looking and even more unique.

Photo albums and photo books, as well as photo canvases, are among the most popular of photo gifts. If you're looking for the perfect, heartfelt anniversary gift or you want to update your own wedding photo album then you need not look any further.

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