{"id":24,"date":"2013-10-15T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-02-22T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T08:54:43","slug":"the-trouble-with-old-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/blogposts\/the-trouble-with-old-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble With Old Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with old photographs is that often they are one of a kind. Negatives have long been lost, and your personal history would be lost forever should anything happen to the photos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat <em>can<\/em> happen?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Light, damp, fire, spills, smudges, stains, crayon wielding offspring. These are just a few of the many potential destroyers of your heirloom photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/damaged1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" alt=\"damaged\" src=\"http:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/damaged1-300x155.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/damaged1-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/damaged1.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ll get down to it someday.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember what happened to the dinosaurs?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" alt=\"2 dino\" src=\"http:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/appinitio.com\/picscanner\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2-dino.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t have the time. And I\u2019m NOT sending them to a scanning service.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You <em>don\u2019t<\/em> have to spend the rest of your life hunched over a scanner or computer digitizing photos. In a \u201c30 minute challenge\u201d last weekend, we scanned and cropped 106 photos with Pic Scanner. It was fast, and it was fun. Check it out at www.appinitio.com\/picscanner.<\/p>\n<p>Just do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble with old photographs is that often they are one of a kind. 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