Seattle Photo Organizing

Molly is amazing and worth every penny. I had her scan about 200 slides for an anniversary party for my parents. My husband dropped them off on Dec. 30^th and I have them all, in full digitally, today January 2^nd. We shopped around and had another business quote us up to $ 4 a slide (I believe we paid less than $ 2 a slide.) I’m sure she has busier times but I cannot thank her enough for the speed in which she got these to us. TOTALLY worth it, thank you!

Molly is exceptional! My grandmother passed away and we wanted to scan all our family’s photos of her. Some of them were in old albums, some stuck to glass frames, some loose. Molly took it all with kindness and professionalism, and she turned the project around super quickly. She even worked on the weekend and evenings to get us the scans in time for the service. She offered to create an online family archive so that any family member can download the high resolution scans — and she created the archive without extra charge. On top of everything, her prices were extremely reasonable.

I don’t know what the other reviewers are talking about when they say she was too expensive. I was looking to get pictures scanned so I would have them available more easily online. I looked all over the internet at the different companies where you send a box of photos in. I instead wanted to find someone local so I wouldn’t have to worry about my pictures getting lost in the mail. Molly did an amazing job with all the pictures I gave her and her prices were extremely reasonable.
As a reference I got a couple of quotes from photo shops around Seattle and they literally charged an arm and a leg and were on average 4 – 5 times more expensive than what Molly quoted me at. I initially gave her a small batch because I wanted to see how good the scans turned out and once I saw how great they were I had her do about 200 more for me. Her turn around time on everything was really great as well. Will definitely recommend her to anyone and will use her in the future again.

Molly Bullard is super nice, but super expensive. I went to see her about scanning two of my grandmother’s photo albums from the 1900’s. To scan just one book of 285 pictures it would have cost $ 994!!! Each picture (even though you scanned each page) was $ 3.75/each.
Here is her project description from the invoice estimate she did for me:
Project Description:
— Prepare book for scanning by removing gently removing string
— Scan each individual page at 300dpi
— Maintain order of book by using filename convention: BOOK NAME_​ALBUM_​pg 1, 2…
— For pages, enhance black background and sharpen images
— Crop each individual photo from book, color enhance and sharpen
— Maintain order of book by using filename convention: BOOK NAME_​INDIV_​pic 1, 2…
— Provide client with digital files on cd flash drive
— Return original materials and any loose materials in acid-​free sleeves
— Cost: 285 (+/​-​10) total pictures @ $ 3.75/ea — $ 994
Since I thought this was outrageous, I called another company and its ovner agreed that it was way overpriced. He said he would charge me $ 300 to do the same for both my albums, not just one.
Ultimately, I decided to scan the pictures myself at 600 dpi, bought Photoshop Elements for $ 70, and cropped everything myself. $ 70 is a lot more reasonable than $ 1000. It took me 8 hours to scan BOTH albums. The cropping takes the longest. I am almost done with all the photos and have spent ~15 hours cropping and editing.
After I told Molly her work was out of my price range, she was really nice about it. She told me that if I had any questions doing it on my own, I could give her a call. She also hand delivered the album she evaluated to me at work. Once again, she is a really nice. If price wasn’t an issue, I think she would be a good person to work with.