Prints
Digitize and restore your prints to protect from damage and decay.
Scan My PrintsYour Family's Memories Deserve to Be Preserved.
We preserve family, estate, and organization legacies across the Puget Sound (Seattle, Eastside & Peninsula) and the Oregon Coast—with mail-in preservation services available nationwide. Specializing in custom digitization of physical media, photo restoration, fine art archival printing, and organized digital libraries.
Serving clients from our studios in Sammamish, WA and Depoe Bay, OR.
Over 61 Five-Star reviews from satisfied customers
- Professional
- Personal
- In-House
“What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
Your Memories are waiting to be Preserved
Most families have photographs and other memories tucked away somewhere:
Boxes of photographs.
Old albums.
Slides and negatives.
VHS tapes, DVDs and home movies.
Photos scattered across computers and phones.
You may have been meaning to do something with them for years.
But where do you start?
Sorting, scanning, restoring and organizing a lifetime of memories can feel overwhelming—and the longer they're left untouched, the greater the risk that something will be lost or damaged.
That's where The Picture Org(anizer) comes in.
We help you preserve your family's memories, bring order to your collection, and turn those memories into things you can enjoy and share.
Our services
Negatives
Digitize and restore your negatives for the best digital images.
Digitize my negatives
Restore
the most precious of your memories before they degrade forever.
Restore my memories
Fine Art and Archival Prints
Transform restored heirlooms, negatives, and historic portraits into gallery-grade, archival Giclée prints.
Explore Print Services
Slides
Recapture the memories trapped in slide carousels and trays.
Scan my slides
Videotapes
Digitize your family memories locked on videotapes (VHS, MiniDV, and Video8/Hi8, Betamax).
Digitize my videos
Preserve
your memories before they fade or are lost to a natural or man-made disaster.
Preserve my memories
Organized
Find your images easily.
Organize my memories
Film - 8 and 16mm
Bring to life the memories captured on home movies.
Digitize my home movies
Cassette Tapes
Digitize cassette tapes memories
Digitize my audio tapes
Shared
Share your memories with a digital archive.
Help Me Share Memories
Slide Shows
for anniversaries, memorials, and special events.
Create my slideshow
Photo Books
Share your photos with a custom photo book.
Create my photo book
Film Processing
We can arrange development of unprocessed film rolls.
Develop my film
Customer Testimonials
Very easy to work with
Alexis H. (via Google) - ★★★★★ - John was very easy to work with during my floppy disc conversion! So fun to see all of our old family photos.
Done with time to spare
Paul S. (via Yelp) - ★★★★★ - I took my VHS in to have it put on a disk It was a last minute deal John was able to get it done with time to spare and he did a great job If you ever need anything repaired I recomed him With 5 stars
AMAZING restoration and poster print!
Melissa D. (via Google) - ★★★★★ - AMAZING restoration and poster print! The Picture Org took my 50 year old 35mm underexposed color slide, corrected the lighting to maximum extent possible, and enlarged the image to print a small section, maybe 1/8 of the slide, into a 30" x 45" poster print. Done quickly too for a timely memorial service. I still can't believe how beautiful it came out. The Picture Org will have all my digitizing business going forward and I highly recommend.
Second time to use
Jeremy B. (via Google) - ★★★★★ - This is the second time I've used John's services. He took a bunch of mini digital tapes from the late 90s and early 2000s of my high school wrestling and put it all on a zip drive. He took my grandparents' wedding photos and digitized them.I had this on my list for a couple years! John is super easy to work with and I'm so happy I reached out to him.
Met AND Exceeded expectations
Jenn JT. (via Google) - ★★★★★ - Like many people, we had planned to digitize all of our printed photos but kept putting off the task because it seemed so daunting. We toyed with doing it ourselves, but after pricing photo scanners and doing a few trials with some apps, we decided to outsource the work.We wanted to find someone local because shipping a lifetime full of curated memories to who knows where for several weeks made me nervous. While those places do cost less, the reviews go from mixed to worse. Also, since I painstakingly took the time to keep my photos organized over the years, I didn’t want them all dumped into one pile prior to scanning, which is often the case with the cheap online providers. And, lastly, I wanted our photos scanned in high resolution.The Picture Org(anizer) not only met all my requirements but John and team exceeded expectations. My scanned photos look fantastic!! I am so pleased. And the USB drive that he put them on was neatly organized into my desired subfolders. I couldn’t be happier.
Fantastic job with MiniDV to DVD
Ian P. (via Google) - ★★★★★ - I had ten Mini-DV tapes dating back to the early-mid 2000's that I wanted putting onto DVD disks. John did a superb job, not only was the quality superb, but each DVD case and disk was presented very nicely with a photograph, title and dates. John also recommended to prepare a thumb-drive with the content also. This was presented in a really nice little wooden case. Overall a fantastic job! I highly recommend "The Picture ORGanizer".
What can The Picture Org(anizer) do for you?
Digitize/Scan and convert your media to digital
- Photos, Negatives, and Slides
- Albums, Scrapbooks, news clippings, and other memorabilia
- VHS, VHS-C, Video8, Digital8, Hi8 and Mini-DV videotapes
- 35mm and 8mm Film
- Cassette and reel-to-reel audio tapes
Organize your photos and videos (physical and digital)
- Arranged by date or other logical groupings
- De-duplicated and De-cluttered
Share and Enjoy your photos and videos though a digital archive
- Merge your physical and digital photos, videos, and films into an archive you can enjoy with friends and family, searchable by events, people, places, and more.
Restore faded and damaged photos
- Restore faded colors
- Digitally repair damaged photos
- Create new archival prints, including enlargements
Slideshows for event celebrations and funeral memorials
- Using the best images
- Celebrate people, milestones, events, and more
Prints, Invitations, Memorial cards, and Photo Books
- Archival Giclee Prints, reprints, and enlargements
- Funeral memorial cards and Event invitations
- Photo and Family History Books
- Wood engravings
We are a family-owned media preservation and restoration studio serving families, estates, and organizations from our dedicated studio locations in Sammamish, WA and Depoe Bay, OR—as well as clients nationwide. We combine over 25 years of organizational and project management experience with a deep commitment to photographic heritage and data privacy. Whether you consult with us in person or utilize our mail-in service, your media is handled strictly in-house with chain-of-custody protocols, precision color calibration, and archival craftsmanship.
- We gladly accept rush projects, with turnaround times as short as one day or less. Please note that for such expedited timelines, a 25% rush charge will apply, as we prioritize your project by slowing down other projects to meet your deadline.
- While we will digitize projects as small as a single item, we have a minimum project charge of $25.
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Family History Month: Who's in this photo? Why the Holidays Are Your Best Chance to Find Out
Every family has a box of photos full of faces nobody can name. This Family History Month, here's how to get ready to use Thanksgiving to finally find out who they are, with simple prep tips, questions to ask relatives, and the best ways to label photos so the answers last.