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In-Home Photo Scanning

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Imagine rediscovering decades of memories, all perfectly organized and accessible from your phone or laptop. StoryMap Studio transforms your shoeboxes of photos into a digital archive ready to be shared with others.

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That feeling of being overwhelmed by thousands of photos? It's why so many collections sit untouched. In just one day, turn this overwhelming task into a finished, celebrated digital archive you can share immediately.

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Our Transparent Approach

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  1. Review Your Collection: First, I'll review your photo collection to understand the scope of the project.

  2. Discuss Your Goals: We'll talk through your goals for your digital photos and where you want to archive them.

  3. Provide Estimate: Based on this review, you'll receive an estimate, so you know the total cost before committing.

  4. Sort Photos: I'll begin by organizing your photos into ready-to-scan groups. If you don't have a large work area in your home, I'll bring my own tables.

  5. Scan: I'll scan your photos into high-quality, 300 DPI images that you can share or print again. If your photos have writing on the back, I will automatically scan both sides at the same time.

  6. Review Files: Finally, I will conduct a quality check and then save the files to your preferred location. I do not retain any copies of your files.​

7 Ways to Use Your Digital Photos

 

Digitizing your photo collection is just the first step. The real magic happens when your memories become accessible, shareable, and integrated into your life. During your free in-home consultation, we'll discuss your vision for how you'd like to share and safekeep your photos.

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  • Share & Connect: Easily share decades of history with family and friends around the world. Use modern photo library features like facial recognition to quickly find photos of specific people and share an entire lifetime of memories in seconds.

  • Create a Family Heirloom: Combine your most meaningful images with historical documents, family tree details, and personal narratives into a beautiful family legacy storybook. This ensures your children and grandchildren never lose sight of their roots.

  • Curate Your Best Moments: Create gift-worthy photo books, year-in-review series, or memorial tributes, focusing only on your best, most cherished images.

  • Design Travel Books: Transform your travel memories into a keepsake that go beyond photos — combining imagery, itineraries, and personal highlights into a one-of-a-kind visual narrative. Photos help you remember what you saw, travel story maps help you remember where you went!

  • Publish to Digital Frames: Create a rotating slideshow for digital photo frames, smart TVs, or computer screens. Enjoy seeing decades of family history constantly cycling through your living space.

  • Event Centerpiece: Use your digitized images to create displays, centerpieces, and slideshows for anniversary parties, birthdays, wedding rehearsal dinners, or celebrations of life.

  • Enrich Your Family Tree: Easily tag and upload photos to genealogy sites like Ancestry or MyHeritage, adding rich visual context and deeper meaning to names and dates for your distant relatives.

Serving the Twin Cities

We will travel to your home (up to a 20-mile radius of Minneapolis), including: Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Corcoran, Edina, Golden Valley, Greenfield, Hanover, Maple Grove, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Osseo, Plymouth, Richfield, Rogers, St. Paul, St. Louis Park, Wayzata, and surrounding cities.

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