Photo Scanning & Image Digitisation

Careful digitisation for modern prints, vintage photographs, portraits, enlargements and other family images. Personally handled in Adelaide and delivered as clean, organised digital files

Preserve What Matters. Enjoy It More.

A photograph does not have to be old or historically significant to be worth preserving. It might be a favourite picture of someone you love, a holiday with friends or the only photograph of a place that mattered to you. If it exists only as a print, fading, damage or loss can take away something you cannot recreate. Digitisation gives you a lasting copy that can be backed up separately, so you are no longer relying on one physical original.

Those images also become easier to enjoy. Share them with the people in them, make prints for your walls, create a personal gift or photo book, or keep them close enough to revisit whenever you like. Whether you have five treasured photographs or boxes of unsorted prints, digitisation turns a collection you store into one you can use.

Your photographs are personally handled in Adelaide, with scanning suited to their condition and your plans. General scanning uses the rate for your total quantity at each resolution, applied to every photo in that batch. For example, 1,000 photos at 600 DPI cost $350 (1,000 × $0.35). You receive organised digital files and your originals back. Restoration is discussed separately.

Modern and vintage photographs, portraits, enlargements, cartes de visite, cabinet cards and more

GENERAL SCANNING
For loose prints in regular sizes and sound condition

HIGH RESOLUTION
600 DPI
$0.65 each for 1–100 photos
$0.56 each for 101–250 photos
$0.46 each for 251–500 photos
$0.39 each for 501–999 photos
$0.35 each for 1,000+ photos

ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION
1200 DPI
$0.89 each for 1–100 photos
$0.80 each for 101–250 photos
$0.70 each for 251–500 photos
$0.60 each for 501–999 photos
$0.55 each for 1,000+ photos

SPECIALIST DIGITISATION
For mounted, fragile, unusually sized or particularly special photographs requiring individual handling

HIGH RESOLUTION
600 DPI
$2.50 per photo

ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION
1200 DPI
$3.75 per photo

ARCHIVAL RESOLUTION
2400 DPI
$5.95 per photo

Included with Your Scans

Files Ready to Use

General scanning includes high-quality JPEG images for viewing, sharing and printing. Specialist digitisation includes TIFF master files alongside convenient JPEG copies.

Carefully Prepared

Scans are straightened, correctly oriented and cropped to remove excess scanner background while retaining the photograph’s edges and borders. Images are checked for scanning errors before delivery. Restoration and enhancement are available separately.

Organised and Connected

Your supplied order and groups are retained, with sequential filenames and clearly labelled folders. Specialist digitisation also includes the reverse of photographs bearing notes, dates or stamps, with matching filenames to keep both sides connected.

Private Delivery, Originals Returned

Download your images through a private link available for 28 days, with straightforward instructions for saving and backing up your files. Your originals are returned through the agreed collection or delivery arrangement. USB storage and postage are available at additional cost.

Additional Services

Optional enhancement, restoration, preservation, organisation and access services are available.

  • Give faded or damaged photographs renewed clarity. The $8.99 per-image service includes manual digital restoration to address discolouration, scratches, marks and tears, alongside careful adjustments to tone, contrast and colour. Results depend on the condition of the source image.

    All work is carried out on a digital copy, leaving your physical photograph unchanged. You receive the original scan alongside the restored or enhanced version.

    $8.99 per image

  • Make your collection easier to navigate and its details easier to retain. Beyond the sequential filenames and folders included with your scans, Breadcrumbs Preserve offers custom naming, detailed sorting and the addition of names, dates, places and descriptions supplied by you. Handwritten notes can also be transcribed and kept connected to the relevant photographs.

    Suitable archival sleeves and rehousing can provide better storage for your originals, while thoughtful digital organisation helps you find images and understand what they show.

    The work is tailored to your collection, with the scope, materials and cost agreed before it begins.

    Collection organisation and custom naming: $65 per hour.
    Protective sleeves, archival storage and rehousing: individually quoted, including materials and fitting.