Something I am working on for a wedding

Just the start of idea for a wedding reception.  We plan to integrate childhood pics and other things into this show.  Wedding is not until next June so we are just bouncing ideas off the bride at this point.  I have given her two ideas and she also has some of her own.  We can customize a show in many ways, no canned presentation or PowerPoint.  You will need  a Gmail account to access this video.

Just click on the link to view a low res video...

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College Graduation Is Right Around the Corner

College Grads and Parents

Graduation is right around the corner.

May 7th for SDSU, USD and the rest of the state funded schools

May 21st for Augustana Unversity

May 22nd for University of Sioux Falls.

If you are having an open house,

 consider letting us put together a photo show of your graduates college achievements.

Senior Graduation Time

Time to get those pictures together a make a nice open house slide show for the friends and relatives to watch.  Once you have digitized files, you can use Windows MovieMaker in Windows 7 for a do-it-yourself project.  Or you can go to a photo kiosk at the "big box" stores and make a slide show yourself.  But that takes time and is a big hassle.  If you don't want to take the time or deal with the hassle, let us do a customized, unique photo show for you.  Check out our options and prices in the Photo Show Prices menu above.

Helping Bring Those Memories Back

Imagine finding that favorite slide Dad took of you and your sister at Easter or your trip to the farm back in 1965. The slide ends up being dark or the colors aren't right. Dang it.

 We probably can make those memories look a little bit better.

Here are some examples of some of the quick work we can do to help recover what may be a dark or incorrectly tinted slide to something that can be cherished.  When we are doing slide digitizing for you we can do simple enhancements of all your slides or those slides of your choosing. There is a small up charge for this service.  The charges will vary depending on what is required, and we will keep the cost reasonable.

If you have a special slide or picture you have had digitized somewhere else and are not happy with how it looks, give us a shot at making it better.

Here are just two examples from my last digitizing job.

Original Easter '64

Simple Levels and Color/Tone Correction 

Original On the Farm '65

Simple Crop, Levels and Color/Tone Correction

This was a fun project to do for our client.

Sample Photo Show of Claudia

Here is a 1 minute snippet of Claudia from some pictures that Char put together and let me play with.  This was so much fun.  Good example of what we can do with your digital photos or prints you might want scanned.

Label Options for your Photo Show

You can have photo(s) and text of your choice on the DVD Label of your finished production.

I offer both pressure sensitive glossy labels or Lightscribe.  Lightscribe burns an image into the  surface of the label side of the DVD.

I have not experienced any problems, but have read that some players have issues with playback when a sticky label is used.  Liquids are also an issue with sticky labels.  Just words of caution.  If you prefer your photo show on a photo glossy sticky label, we will do that.  If you have playback issues, we will burn a lightscribe disc for you.

Blu-ray burner manufacturers do not recommend putting any type of label on a blu-ray disc.  Until I can research it further, I will use disc compliant markers to write and label blu ray disc.

Something to Consider for Your Photo Show

                                                 

If you would like some certificates, sports cards, and so on in your photo show you can provide us with the digitized images or we can digitize them for you. Anything we digitize for your photo show is always half of the price listed in the digitizing price list with no minimum digitizing order. 

 

Photo Show from a Broadway Show Booklet

Thought I would try my hand at doing a short photo show from the Broadway Show Booklet and CD that we got when we went to Million Dollar Quartet.  My plan is to put the final project of the other video from the New York trip and this one together on a DVD.

I just did scans from the Booklet and took the opening song from the show and put them in some logical order and came up with this....

After I was done, I thought it would probably be more efficient to take digital pictures of the booklet shots I want.  So.... I may go back and do that to see which I like best.

The video files you see here look great when converted to DVD and viewed on an HDTV.

Sample Photo Show I Am Working On

I made a short sample of some of the effects that one can put into a photo show.  I am working on my own project here of a a trip to the Pinstripe Bowl @ Yankee Stadium in NYC.  The Fireworks are taken in Central Park on New Year's Eve.

You can also view this video on my facebook page.