how to do everything with your scannerHow to Do Everything With Your Scanner
Learn how to use a scanner to transfer photos or negatives to digital format.

New Life for Old Photos

Convert your snapshots into digital images that you can share instantly. Use editing tools to crop, sharpen fuzzy images or eliminate the dreaded "red eye " look. Get help from friendly lab assistants in accessing free sites/programs that enable you to make slide shows, collages, a family photo album, adding voice and music. Let your creativity blossom!

The library has scanners available for capturing vacation and old family photos. A transfer can be made from 35mm slides, word documents or print photos to the computer, and it can be saved to a portable storage device such as a flash drive. Once your pictures are picture-perfect, share them with friends and family. They'll be delighted--and so will you.

Related websites

Atpic
A place to share photos. Geotagging and GeoRSS is available with Atpic Maps.
BlueMelon Photo Sharing
Includes free photo storage, sharing, backup and display. Also, photos can be made into gifts, geotagged or sold.
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
Picasa
Picasa can be used for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and purchased by Google in 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my house" and "pic" for pictures (personalized art).