Smart idea on what to do with your scanned photos

Once your pictures, slides and film are digitally scanned, you can now order personalize M&M candy from your jpeg files.

Mars Inc., McLean, Va., maker of M&M chocolate candy, has long offered a personalization service for the treat, which lets customers pick colors and have texts and logos printed on M&M’s. The new offering, M&M’s Faces, [...]

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Customer Profile: “Digitized Your Memory”

Thanks to Grace Lin’s blog “Syncing up with Reality” and her customer profile on the recent ScanMyPhotos.com experience. After 18-years in business, there is nothing sweeter than comments like this from the “Syncing up with Reality” blog posting with same scanned pictures:

“Check out this cool online service ScanMyPhotos.com. You send in your pictures and they [...]

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1,000 Free Photo Scans Extended Through September 30th

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1,000 Free Photo Scans*
Through September 30th
Many businesses are turning to word-of-mouth marketing to invite personal Web page posting to review, share their experiences and influence what the next new-thing will be. According to ScanMyPhotos.com, Facebook, along with Blogger, Flickr and [...]

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Free Photo Editing Site Picnik Recommended by ScanMyPhotos.com

Having scanned millions of pictures, ScanMyPhotos.com provides dozens of other photo imaging specialty services, including custom photo restoration and photo enhancements. However, for ordinary photo fixing, we recommend Picnik.com – the online services lets users crop borders, eliminate red-eye and add a range of special effects like blurring, tinting and heat-mapping to any picture.
Photo Editing [...]

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When Analog Meets Digital, Profits Follow: Mitch Goldstone And ScanMyPhotos.com (via PIR)

Reprinted from Photo Industry Reporter, June 2008; By Ted Kritsonis

Woodbury, NY— Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman knows a market when they sees one, especially when analog meets digital. Goldstone and Berman have been running their photo lab in Orange County, California, for 18 years, along with the company website at 30minphotos.com since the late 1990s. [...]

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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL – Save 50% All In Store Photo Kiosk Orders

SAVE 50% on all in-store photo kiosk orders* with the early bird special at Irvine’s 30 Minute Photos Etc. – ScanMyPhotos.com.
*Valid towards anything you can create on our in-store photo kiosks

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What should local retailers do to attract customers during off-peek hours, especially when record gas prices [...]

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Photo Scanning Service – Reviews

Read what ScanMyPhotos.com customers across the country and overseas are saying. Click here to view the complete testimonial page and public blogs. Click here to visit ScanMyPhotos.com offical homepage.
We referred a customer to you last week and I just received a call thanking me for sending them to such a great place. You could tell [...]

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Free / Open Source DVD Creation Workflow (via The Johnny Gizmo Blog)

We came across this useful recommendation and advice from The Johnny Gizmo Blog on how to put together a slide show DVD with no commercial software.
 
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The National Wildlife Federation features new photo contest

The National Wildlife Federation, Reston, Va., announces a new 2008 photography competition, the National Wildlife Photo Contest. Cash prizes totaling $18,000 plus camera equipment and other gifts will be awarded to the winners in three separate divisions: professional, amateur, and youth. The grand prize winner will receive $5,000. A portfolio of award-winning entries will be [...]

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Read What’s Making Today’s News in the Photo Industry (via PhotoReporter)

 

Fujifilm Hosts Digital Printing Workshop And Demos for Photo Specialty Companies
Tiffen Sponsors White House News Photographers’ Gala
When Analog Meets Digital, Profits Follow: Mitch Goldstone And ScanMyPhotos.com
Panasonic Gives Sailors and Marines Times Square Photo Op during Fleet Week
Picaboo’s Idea Center Helps Consumers Make Seasonal Photo Books
New Photo-Sharing Site Provides Moneymaking Ops for Photographers
Candid Color Launches Event [...]

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NBC Nightly News: ScanMyPhotos.com Profile

On Tuesday, June 17th, Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman, co-founders of ScanMyPhotos.com (30 Minute Photos Etc.) will be profiled on the NBC Evening News with Brian Williams tonight.  Click here to view schedule in your area. 
Watch us on The Today Show – click here
Watch us on The Nightly News with Brian Williams – Click here
 
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A new survey from Eastman Kodak Co. of more than 1,000 American moms reveals the key family “memory keeper” often misses important photographs. Moms appear to care a great deal about preserving memories, yet a substantial 50 percent admit they’ve missed a prime family photo opportunity.

A closer look at the survey reveals one-third of these [...]

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In memoriam – dedicated to the remembrance of NBC’s Tim Russert (1950-2008)

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KODAK Picture Movie DVD From Your Scanned Photos

Coming soon to our retail location and now available for all photo scan mail orders at ScanMyPhotos.com are the new KODAK Picture Movie DVDs .
 
“Don’t just look at pictures…. Relive your memories” with KODAK Picture Movie DVDs.
Click here for more information.
These movie DVDs are separate from your scanned DVD data disc files and are just [...]

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ShwUp.com Photo-Sharing Site Review and Recommendation

Thanks to Katherine Boehret and Walt Mossberg for the June 11th Wall Street Journal “The Mossberg Solution” review on a smart and easy-to-operate photo-sharing site called Shwup.com.
In addition to ScanMyPhotos.com, which also operates a full-service online photo experience for ordering hundreds of photo products, including sharing your analog and digital photos, Shwup.com is another smart [...]

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Digital Archiving, Recovering Lost Files, Organizing Pictures (via I3A)

How to Recover Lost Photos (via I3A)

While it’s never good news to discover that your computer has “crashed”, it is an unfortunate reality — once in awhile. That said, it’s a topic that we must address. As frustrating as this can be, there’s some sleuthing that may recover lost photos and other data.
If you [...]

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Apple to offer thousands of apps on new iPhone 3G

Once your analog photos are scanned, there are all types of new ways to shar your pictures, including wit the new iPhone 3G.
Apple Inc. announced the iPhone 3G will be available in the United States on July 11. iPhone 3G combines all the features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS for expanded location based [...]

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Photo Restoration: How to Fix Your Photos

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We Fix Your Photos – Your Favorite Photos Never Looked So Good

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Let us restore and enhance your vintage photographs into works of art to be enjoyed and preserved for generations. Old pictures fade and degrade with time. Fix old and damaged photos with our custom professiongal Kodak-quality photo restoration today [...]

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Kodak: Pictures Are More than Computer Files

The recent Wall Street Journal D All Things Digital conference included the Eastman Kodak Company as a lead sponsor. Along with photo specialty retailers and digital imaging entrepreneurs worldwide, ScanMyPhotos.com and 30 Minute Photos Etc. salutes Kodak’s leadership in recognizing that pictures are more than just jpeg files. It is about telling and sharing stories. [...]

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Customer Profile: “Scan Your photos!”

Thanks for the detailed posting on the Phillips’ experience with ScanMyPhotos.com. The below commentary is reprinted from our customer’s blog with her detailed experience trusting ScanMyPhotos.com with preserving her family’s photo memories.
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I am sooooo glad I sent all those pictures away to THIS PLACE. I got by pictures back yesterday and I am really, really [...]

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Free* Photo Album Coffee Table Books – Ready in Minutes*

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FREE DUPLICATE PHOTO ALBUM COFFEE TABLE BOOKS
There are hundreds of new ways to share and save your special photos, but one of the most popular products are photo album coffee table books that you design in minutes, online or at retail photo centers.

Now you can easily order your own albums that you design in [...]

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Before Emailing Your Newly Scanned Photos, Read What Seth Godin Says:

Now that your generations of photo, slide, negative and recent APS film is digitized by ScanMyPhotos.com and ready for sharing, read these helpful tips from Seth’s Blog.

Email checklist

Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:

Is it going to just one person? (If yes, jump [...]

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ephotos.com, a community for photographers, launches this week

ephotos.com, a new website dedicated to creating a community where photographers can showcase their work, launched this week. ephotos.com was created by photographer, Chi Modu.
  Ephotos.com will have four levels of listings, including a free option, because Modu doesn’t want to exclude talented photographers who may not be able to afford a paid listing, according [...]

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WebsitesForHeroes.com provides free, secure websites that help America’s military families stay better connected during deployments.

Here is a wonderful idea on how to share your newly digitized photos. We received the WebsitesForHeros.com link from a ScanMyPhotos.com customer who had us scan their family photos and slides to share with their family member serving overseas.
WebsitesForHeroes.com provides free, secure websites that help America’s military families stay better connected during deployments. Sponsored [...]

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DIGITALPOST INTERACTIVE, New Application for Preserving Memories, Our Recommendation:

Another Irvine, Calif-based photo imaging company, DigitalPost Interactive (OTCBB: DGLP) provides user-friendly Web 2.0 platforms that bring simplicity, versatility and security to online digital media sharing. ScanMyPhotos.com recommends this product which is powered by our advanced, proprietary Web management tool Qwik-Post, our technology makes it easy for even the most novice Internet users to post [...]

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Kodak CTO to be keynote presenter at upcoming 6Sight conference

Bill Lloyd, chief technical officer of Eastman Kodak Co., will be a keynote presenter at the 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference, at 9:00 a.m., Nov. 19, at the Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, Calif. His presentation, entitled “Press the Button 2.0,” will focus on the increasing level of attention being paid to the future of [...]

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Raves from Popular Photography; Special Discount Rate – Save $24.95*

SEE BELOW TO SAVE $24.95

Thanks to Popular Photography’s Editor-in-chief, John Owens for his comments about ScanMyPhotos.com on page 13 in the May 2008 edition of Popular Photography – The World’s Largest Imaging Magazine.

Because of our recent rate increase for the prepaid fill-the-box scanning service, we are extending the old rate for all Popular Photography readers. [...]

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Nikon releases Capture NX 2, its latest image processing software

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Nikon Inc., Melville, N.Y., introduces the latest generation of its image processing and editing software, Capture NX 2, which provides a suite of tools and a visual operation to streamline photo editing. Capture NX 2 utilizes U Point technology to give photographers access to Control Points that enhance color, exposure, and [...]

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In–HomE Insecurity for Inkjets (via Photo Industry Reporter)

From Photo Industry Reporter: In–Home Insecurity for Inkjets
Photo Printing Shifts from Home to Retail and Web
by Mark Lapin
A rising tide lifts all boats, but the opposite is also true. For almost 10 years, the oceans of colored ink consumed by millions of people happily printing photos at home have lifted sales and generated reliable profits [...]

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Photo Scanning Service Targets Specialty Markets

Although ScanMyPhotos.com is international, we are seeing a significant increase in rush orders from the Southern California market due to the recent state ruling to permit same-sex marriage.
Our company’s strength and 18-year reputation for embracing an inclusive and diverse customer base has always been engaging and supportive. The most recent transformation has yielded an [...]

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