This is What Sets History Savers Apart

History Savers’ number one focus is to help you get the best from your photos, albums, videos and slides.

Our priority is quality and care at a reasonable budget and to customise every process to suit your specific needs.

These are just a few of the aspects that set us apart from other scanning services:

We only ever use high quality flatbed scanners to digitise your photos.

This allows us to always ensure the safety of your original photos and scan album photos individually at a similar rate as loose photos which provides you with reliable high quality scans.

Beware of anyone using bulk and batch scanners as your photos may get scratched or damaged, all photos have to be of a similar size without any stickiness or edges and they often provide low quality outputs for your images.

Use quality flatbed scanners above all else when scanning your photos. 

We individually crop, balance, colour correct and adjust contrast and levels on every scanned image.

This involves our expert eyes literally assessing and adjusting every photo to it’s specific needs, ensuring we always bring the best out in your images for you.

This post scanning processing is over half of the process required to provide quality, printable final images and is a standard part of our professional service.

Anyone who doesn’t provide detailed post production is only doing half the job.

All photos are scanned at 800 DPI and slides and negatives at 4000 DPI in Abobe RGB colour profile and saved at the highest quality JPEG format.

The Adobe RGB colour profile provides a comprehensive depth of colours far beyond standard colour profiles.

Photos scanned at 800 DPI capture the details of your photos with precision and create an image that can be enlarged and printed with consistent quality. Any scan with less than 600 DPI is likely to lose quality when printed or zoomed in.

Slides and negatives are always scanned at 4000 DPI to provide the best quality in your images for exactly the same reason photos are digitised at 800 DPI.

We always save your files at the highest quality JPEG, i.e. 100% quality, beware of companies reducing this size to create smaller file sizes requiring less storage.

If you prefer your images in specialised TIFF format we can use the settings and format you require, this is the only variation that will cost a little more.

These are our standard settings, any less will not do justice to your photos and slides

We treat your photos, slides and videos as individuals.

Every image has the own specific character, deserves to be treated with respect and have the best brought out in them.

No Hidden Costs.

We believe firmly in transparency and clarity. Our prices are our prices, they include pick up, delivery, high quality flatbed and optical scanning, precise and detailed post production, no batching, no bulk scanning, no automated process, just the individual care you deserve.

Our current team has over 100 years photographic experience.

Need we say more.

Expert Advice and guidance.

Everyone will do one of three things with their old photos, slides and videos, throw them out, take the time to scan them themselves, or use a professional scanning service.

Whatever you choose, our expert team is here to help with clear expert advice in all aspects for creating your long-lasting family archive.