Photo & Video Restoration and Digitizing Tips

Your old photos, negatives, VHS tapes, and film reels weren't made to last forever. The Pure ImageNation blog offers practical advice on preserving, restoring, and digitizing the items that tell your family's story. Explore tips from our Dracut, Massachusetts, digitization team on caring for old photographs, protecting VHS tapes, storing negatives, understanding digital formats, and deciding when it's time to digitize.

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Photo Negative Storage 101

Photo negatives, the stored, and then quickly forgotten about, parts of the photo development process. How do you properly care for them until you can bring them to us to digitize?

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Broken VHS Tape Casing? There’s a Solution

VHS tapes are fragile. If stored properly they can maintain their quality for, on average, 15-25 years. Higher quality tapes can last for longer before degrading. But can anything be done if the tape casing breaks?

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Aspect Ratio & Resizing Photos

One of the most common questions we get asked is, “Can you make this photo another size?” The answer isn’t always straight forward. Read on to find out why aspect ratio matters in re-sizing photos.

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The Basics of VHS-Decode

VHS-Decode: In cases of extreme deterioration, this is the last resort when it comes to digitization. Read on to learn more about this technology and how it can help recover even the faintest bits of info left on VHS tapes.

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VHS Storage 101

VHS tapes are extremely fragile, and were only designed to last 10-25 years before needing to be replaced. That means how you store them before digitization matters. Explore our tips for VHS tape storage.

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The Earlier, the Better

When it comes to preserving the best quality image, film or video, time matters. The longer you wait, the more the details are at risk. Find out why in this blog post.

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Photo Storage 101

We’ve all got that old box of photos sitting under our bed, in a closet, or in the basement. Some of us have several of those boxes! We keep them with good intentions. “We’ll go through them someday, I’m glad to just have them around.” But time doesn’t wait.

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