OUR PASSION We are on a mission to save the world’s great historic archives, one by one.

OUR OFFER We will restore and digitize your archive for FREE.

OUR GOAL We help you use your photographic past to finance the future.

WHAT

we do

WE HELP YOU USE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC PAST TO FINANCE THE FUTURE

Many people call the Regal Photo Archive the industry leader in preserving, digitizing and monetizing historic photography. We disagree. Why? Because there is no “industry” for what we do. There is no other company that can restore, scan, and digitally organize entire photographic archives on a no-cost basis to the publications, institutions, and photographers who own them.

Until now, most publications and photographers have not digitized their print and negative libraries because of the tremendous up-front investment required to digitize and input metadata on millions of pictures. RPA’s business model removes that impediment by leveraging its connections in the world of photography collectors to finance the digitization process. We then provide our partners with a perpetual income source through a split of profits on the licensing of the digital images.

The Regal Photo Archive, Preserving the World’s Photo History.

HOW

we do it

OUR ARCHIVAL PROCESS

1

Acquisition Transportation

Once Regal Photo Archive and your publication reach a formal agreement, several of our trained professionals will travel to your facility to carefully package, ship, and transport your photographs.

2

Access

During the archival process, we provide 24-hour access to the photographs in your collection. You simply file a request via phone, email or fax, and within three hours we will email you a digital version of the requested image.

3

Photo Restoration

After the collection arrives at our facilities, we begin a detailed restoration process. Each Archive Restoration Specialist is trained to ensure that the integrity of the photo is maintained. We carefully remove editing marks and repair scratches and tears.

4

Scanning Tagging

After the photos have been cleaned and restored, we digitize them with our specialized scanners. We maintain your original indexing, so that the organization of the digital archive remains familiar and efficient. We capture all of the photos’ associated metadata, including dates, titles, descriptions, captions, photographers, and news service information. All of our tagging is done with the Photo Mechanic program.

5

Digital Archive Completion

Your digitized images are returned to you according to the specifications in our formal agreement. We ship you two sets of hard drives (the total number of hard drives depends on the size of your collection). We also store your archive on our own servers, in two separate geographic locations, so there is no risk of loss.

WHO

we help

VIEW OUR COLLECTIONS Click here to see a list of the Regal Photo Archive’s Collections →

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