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Photo Books

Turn your favorite photos and stories into a personalized photo book! Whether you want to create a photo book as an archival family heirloom, reproduce an old photo album, or mark a milestone with a simple everyday book, we can help bring your vision to print.

Unlike do-it-yourself services with fixed templates and styles, our photo books are uniquely designed for you by our talented in-house team. We start by listening to the story you want to tell, then produce a custom layout, cover design, and page flow that reflects it. Through our trusted printing partners, we can find just the right book size, paper type, finish, and style for your project.

In today’s digital world, there’s something special about a book of photos printed and ready to share. As a book, the memories can easily be enjoyed, anytime. If you’d like expert help designing the photo book you’ve imagined, schedule an appointment today to meet with our photo book team!

$120/hour of design time plus book cost. The price of each book project varies. An estimated price for your project will be provided after the initial appointment.

We Create Photo Books to Suit Your Story

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Custom photo books tailored to your story and vision

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Expert image scanning, photo editing and layout design

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Flexible book printing with a range of styles, sizes and finishes

At Memories to Digital, we are inspired by you and your stories. When you work with us to bring your book idea to print, our process starts with listening to your vision. Then, our in-house team of digitizing, editing, and design experts gets to work. We go beyond a simple template, carefully optimizing each image and page with an eye to every detail. The result is a high-quality, personalized photo book with a cohesive layout that beautifully tells your unique story.

Additional Information

Preparing For Photo Book Appointment
  1. Decide on the level of service and resolution for each group of photos. Identify groups that could benefit from our basic photo correction. Be sure to indicate photos that might benefit from advanced photo editing and restoration so we can discuss options.
  2. Select the prints, slides, negatives, digital photos, album pages, documents and other memorabilia you would like in your photo book project. See our Photo Digitizing Services for pricing to convert and edit your media. We highly recommend selecting our Scan + Imaging service and digitizing at a minimum of 600 dpi for book projects. Be sure to indicate items that might benefit from advanced editing and/or restoration so we can discuss options.
  3. Organize your media into order according to how you would like them to appear in your book. We will follow whatever organization you provide. 
  4. Number phyiscal media on the backs or mounts and number digital images by renaming the files to include a three digit number (001, 002, etc). We can only guarantee the order if individual items are numbered in order by you. Use a pencil or grease pencil to number photos. Avoid numbering with ink or marker that can smudge or copy onto other items.
  5. Decide on any text or captions. We can scan original book captions, add typed captions to any page or alongside any image, or add documents or pdfs as whole pages of text. You might also consider writing a dedication to include at the start or end of the book. 
  6. Select a title and a cover image. “Richard’s Family Memories”, “Smith Family Through the Years are a couple of examples of titles.
  7. Think about how many copies you’ll need. We recommend purchasing a digital archive copy on disc or a drive that can be stored for safekeeping.
  8. Get started – pick a location and book an appointment. We look forward to helping with your photo book project!

Photo Book Pricing

Options
Pricing
Digitization & Photo Editing
Editing & Design
Typed Text Captions
Book Cost
$120/hour pro-rated
$6.95/10 words
Varies by printer, size & style

Why Choose Memories to Digital?

We Treat Your Memories as if They’re Our Own

We founded Memories to Digital in 2003 after our family mailed their family films away and they got lost. We wanted our community to have a local place to convert family memories, one that offered an alternative to faceless mail-away services.

Today, whether you visit a Memories to Digital location, a Memorywise location, or one of our local partner businesses to drop off or pick up, you receive the same great service from the same dedicated local team. We are your media digitization experts.

We do 100% of our work ourselves, in-house, locally. We give you and your memories the personal service, care and attention deserved, and we use the latest technology to provide you with high-quality digital memories.

Safe, Secure, and Nearby

Eliminate the worry of mailing your memories. We’re local, we do all of our work in-house, and we take it seriously to safeguard your media while in our care.

Media Digitization Experts

Put our extensive digitization expertise to work! We don’t sell cameras or print photos–we specialize in converting all of the old media formats into the latest and best digital formats.

Quality You Can Trust

Our 30-day, 100% guarantee says it all. We pride ourselves on delivering the best possible digital replication of your media as ordered, and will work tirelessly to resolve any issues.

Customized Solutions

Meet with a real person and get your project done right. We’re not a cookie-cutter, drop-box operation– we offer a level of personal service and customization others can’t touch. 

Testimonials

Just wanted to thank you again for the great job you did on my family’s movies. They were a big hit, especially the first DVD – The Early Years. Mom and Dad both teared up as they told their children and grandchildren about our family’s history.

Oke Johnson
Superior, CO

Thank you – the film transfers look terrific! It cost a little more than I had imagined, but it was well worth it. You did a great job and be sure that I will recommend your work anytime. I already did my first DVD with some of the clips and it just looks great!

Emilio Suarez
Niwot, Colorado

Our Process

1. Contact & Drop Off

When you’re ready to get started, pick a location to drop off your media and book an appointment, or simply stop by a location that accepts walk-ins. During your initial appointment, we will gather the details, determine which services best suit your needs, and provide an estimate of cost and timing. If your appointment is via phone, we will make arrangements for you to drop off your media.

2. We Digitize!

Once we receive your media, we will follow up with any questions and update our estimates. When you approve, we’ll start digitizing! All of our work is done in-house, locally. We use state-of-the-art equipment and software, and we have multiple quality checks built into our processes. Our goal is to deliver the best possible digital replication of your media, arranged into the final product you envision.

3. Enjoy, Share & Preserve

We’ll call you when your project is ready for pickup. Once home, you can conveniently enjoy your newly digitized film, video, photo & audio memories on all your devices. It’s also easy to share them with family and friends, and safely store them for future generations. We provide a free backup for 30 days, giving you time to order copies and safeguard your investment. We look forward to working with you!

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Create Custom Photo Books To Tell Your Stories

There’s something special about a book of photos printed—a tangible way to revisit life’s most important memories and moments. 

If you’ve ever struggled with online photo book services or found that the options didn’t match your vision or abilities, our photo book service is for you. Our design team doesn’t use pre-set templates, themes, or styles. Instead, we work one-on-one to create a photo book that fits exactly what you have in mind. Whether you’re preserving a lifetime of family history, reimagining an old photo album, or making a heartfelt gift, we’ll design a personalized photo book from your pictures, photographs, and documents with care.

Designing your photo book is a collaborative process. We can scan original captions, add typed text anywhere you like, or incorporate letters, memorabilia, and dedications. We’ll work with you to arrange and order your images—whether you prefer a chronological timeline or prefer your images grouped by event, season, or milestone. Unlike automated services, our designers enhance every image for clarity, color, and balance before it goes to print. We then produce the page design, page layout and cover design. The result is a cohesive book that feels professional yet personally crafted.

Our flexible printing options go far beyond a standard online service too. We’ll guide you through a wide range of choices for book printing, including paper type, finish, book style, and book size, so the final product matches both your story and your budget. From softcover everyday keepsakes to premium hardcover heirlooms, we have options to suit your preferences.

Start your project today by gathering the photos and materials you’d like included in a book of photos. Together, we’ll transform them into a custom photo album book that reflects your vision, celebrates your memories, and becomes a treasured keepsake for generations.

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Here are the reasons to consider capturing your film in 2K or HD instead of SD:

  • Film predates pixels and lines of resolution. The image on film is generated when one or more layers of a random pattern of silver halide crystals react to light, and are retained or washed away and replaced by dyes in the developing process.The image detail generated by this process can appear anywhere on the surface of the film.
  • The more lines of resolution we scan with, the more of this random placement of image detail is captured and converted to pixels. Standard definition (SD) captures 720x480 pixels of detail, high-definition (HD) captures 1920x1080 pixels of detail, and 2K captures 2560x1440 pixels of detail.
  • Sometimes, scanning with more lines captures more of the “grain” of the film, or the crystals that remain on the surface of the film. The grain is more obvious in film that was produced with larger crystals (R8), and less obvious in film that was produced with smaller crystals (S8, 16mm). For some R8 film, scanning in SD softens the detail of the grain making it less disruptive to the image.
  • These days, with HD, 2K and 4K viewing environments - and larger and larger screens - more, smaller pixels is always better because the smaller pixels provide more detail and a smoother image as the image is enlarged to a big-screen.

SD can never reproduce the full image detail on a film frame because SD video has a fixed pixel pattern with a density of 720x480 pixels, and the pixels that make up the image are always in the same place from one video frame to the next. But film has a random grain pattern, and the image created by the grains of crystals is in a totally different place from one film frame to the next. These random grains each carry a bit of the detail that make up the complete picture and, at running speed, the random grains overlap each other on the retina of your eye to significantly increase the amount of apparent detail. This is called “accumulative resolution”. If you transfer your 8mm home movies to SD video, even with the very best SD camera, your detail will be limited by the coarse, fixed pixel pattern inherent in SD video. Of course, HD and 2K have a fixed pixel pattern, too, but the number of pixels are so great and the pattern is so insignificant, that HD and 2K are like a fine silk stocking compared to the burlap weave of SD. 

Our high definition (HD) film capture offers resolution gains of 667% over a standard definition (SD) capture (more than 6 times better). Our HD capture is not a mere up-conversion from an SD source. Our HD film capture equipment uses a high definition image sensor to take in 5 times the square pixels per frame of film that our SD machine is not capable of picking up. For 8mm films the HD image sensor generates greater than 4000 pixels per inch. Thus, the accumulative resolution effect found in film can be more readily seen in an HD transfer than in an SD transfer.