Nostalgia by Nina is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind photomontage video that combines your favorite photographs, home movies, video clips, and voice recordings with beautiful music, expressive titles and captions, fascinating themes, and awe-inspiring effects and transitions. These slideshows are created into DVD or Blu-ray movies that are suitable for viewing on a computer or on a television. These videos differ from PowerPoint presentations in that they present your photographs in an incredibly artistic format that really brings those special memories to life. The themes, special effects, and custom motion effects animate each of your old photographs, breathe new life into your precious memories, and present them in a way that dazzles the eye and enlivens the spirit. Multiple photographs can be layered to be presented in such a way that tells a story that a simple slideshow presentation could never hope to achieve. Additionally, music is carefully selected to correspond to the theme of your presentation. Everything is carefully timed and choreographed to ultimately result in a video that presents your simple memories in a complex tapestry that will inspire and delight the viewer’s senses. For all these reasons, a Nina’s Nostalgia photo montage video is actually a work of art that makes an excellent gift for yourself and your family.

If you are like most people, digital photographs and digital home movies are usually relegated to computer hard drives, memory sticks, compact discs, or cell phones that are seldom viewed and much less enjoyed. And yet, these preserve our most precious possessions, our memories. Photographs and home movies tell the most important stories of our lives—what made us the people that we have become. We will not only preserve those memories but also bring the stories to life. We will work with each individual client to ensure that their work is professionally produced, artfully tailored, and personally customized to their needs for a photo montage video they can truly treasure for years to come.

We offer packages to suit your needs. All packages may be customized to tailor to the customer’s specific needs and desires.

Please click on the Packages and Costs link. Feel free to contact us with any questions or need for clarification. We are happy to help create a package that helps you tell your story.

We can create a photo montage video for any event such as:

A Child’s Birth

Christenings and Baptisms

Birthday Celebrations

Debuts and Quinceañeras

Religious Ceremonies such as Confirmation, First Communion, and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

Graduations and Award Ceremonies

Family Vacations, Outings, and Gatherings

Reunions of Family, Class, or School

Performances, Concerts, and Recitals

Bachelorette and Bachelor Parties

Bridal and Baby Showers

Wedding Proposals, Wedding Ceremonies, and Honeymoons

Anniversaries of Marriage or Partnerships

Sporting Events, Sports Seasons, and Season Wrap-ups

Special Holidays and Festivals

Welcome Home and Going Away Parties

Year-In-Review and Family Accomplishments

Retirements and Tributes

Memorials for Wakes, Funerals, or Memorial Services

Pet Celebrations and Memorials

Church Functions and Fundraisers

Real Estate Sales and Open Houses

Business Presentations and Proposals

Corporate Promotions and Advertisements

And So Much More!

Absolutely yes, we can! This would be the perfect way to introduce the bride and groom to all your guests, especially those who have never met your new spouse. If you can provide the photos, we can include your childhood photographs and even the moment the important question was asked.  We can tell your love story to your guests that allows them to share even more on your special day.

Absolutely yes, we can! This is a perfect way to show facets of your loved one’s life that your guests may never have known or perhaps seen. We will honor and celebrate your loved one’s life and preserve their memory for your future generations yet to come, for all those who have come and gone before us touch our lives in a multitude of ways we may never be able to truly express. Additionally, due to the nature of most passings, if a rush on this order is necessary, arrangements can be made to accommodate this need. Please see our package prices and add on for additional information or feel free to contact us.

Absolutely yes, we can! We will create your special message video for you to send to your military family member.

The easiest way would be to click on the Order Form link, fill it out, and return it to Nina’s Nostalgia with your materials and initial payment. You may also contact us to set up a consultation and we will be happy to go over all the particulars, answer any and all of your questions, and help you fill out the order form. We are always here to help you make this an easy and enjoyable experience.

You may scan your photos at home using your own scanner or you can go to a local photo processing lab found in many major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Sam’s Club, Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy, etc. The best format for photographs is png, but we can accept .jpg format as well. Additionally, the

resolution of the photographs should be no less than 300 dpi. The best resolutions for 3×5 and 4×6 photographs is 600 dpi. Larger photographs such as 5×7, 8×10, and 11×14 can have a resolution of 300 dpi is fine. Very small photographs should be scanned at higher resolutions such as 800 dpi or higher. If you are scanning a slide or a film negative, use a resolution of 1600 dpi. Just keep this rule of thumb in mind when picking the resolutions for your photographs, the smaller the photograph, the higher the resolution at which they should be scanned.  Once you have scanned your photographs, name the photographs with numbers that depict the order you would like them to appear in your photo montage video, for example, 001.png, 002.png, 003.png, etc. Afterwards, you can share them with us through Google Drive and for those who do not know how to do this, just burn your photographs onto a compact disc (CD) or save them to a memory card or memory stick/USB flash drive and mail it to us.

For reference:

Photographs 3×5 and 4×6 should be scanned at a minimum of 600 dpi

Photographs 5×7, 8×10, 11×14, and larger should be scanned at a minimum of 300 dpi

Photographs smaller than 3×5 should be scanned at a minimum of 800 dpi

Slides and film negatives should be scanned at a minimum of 1600 dpi

If these minimums are not met, your photographs may appear grainy and out of focus.

You most likely already have some photographs in mind that you would like to see included in your photo montage video. Keep the following in mind when either narrowing down the number of photographs or broadening the number of photographs.

Select those photos that have sentimental value or are very meaningful.

Select those photos that exhibit character or personality of the photographed subject(s).

Select those photos which capture candid moments or the accidental beauty of life.

Select those photos that memorialize important and significant moments in life.

Select a mixture of both close ups of individuals and group shots.

Select more horizontal shots, landscape photographs, or panoramic views instead of vertical shots because the horizontal, landscape, and panoramic shots fill a television screen more completely than a vertical shot will.  However, vertical shots are fine to use so long as they are spread throughout the photo montage video. Our artisans will craft them in such a way that makes up for their “television shortcoming”.

Avoid selecting photos that are too similar (with few changes from one photograph to another such as group photos with subjects just moved to a different position).

Avoid selecting photos that do not contain a human subject. This of course will depend on the nature of your photo montage video. If you want to capture a personal life’s work in photography, for example, this could result in a number of photographs without any human subjects.

Avoid selecting photos that are very small or out of focus.

Please place your materials in the order you would like to see on the photo montage video for the best possible results. You can number the photos accordingly. You would be the best person to select the order for your photographs, because you know the order that makes the most sense. If the photographs and home movies are not numbered so as to depict any specific order, we will do our very best to place them in order chronologically or by theme.

The two best methods for selecting the order for your photographs is chronologically or by theme. Chronologically may refer to the time when the photographs were taken or may refer to the order in which the events took place, for example: delivery room preparation, birth, first feeding, going home from the hospital. If you are selecting by theme, group photos of similar theme together, for example: dating, proposal, wedding, reception, honeymoon.

These should be the best photographs in your collection that capture the overall theme of your photo montage video. These may have titles or captions overlaid on them and may appear for the longest amount of time.

Absolutely yes, you may! As long as these are digital and labeled with the appropriate number to indicate their location on the photo montage video, there is no problem including these items. The videos should be in mp4 file, to be used in your photo montage video. Please bear in mind that they will replace a specific number of photographs in the packages as well as carry a small additional cost.

As long as these clips have already been converted to digital format, Slideshow Experts will not be able to accommodate these items. At the current time, we only deal with digital images and digital movies to keep costs low.

We recommend that you number your digital photographs and digital home movies in the order you would like them presented on your photo montage video. Save them to a cd-rom, SD memory card, or flash drive and mail them to us using carriers that can track your shipment, such as the United States Postal Service (USPS), United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (Fed Ex), or DHL. All these carriers should be able to pick up your package from your home as well. Another option is to share your files through Google Drive.

Absolutely yes, they will be returned if needed.  Upon receiving final approval and completed payment, your materials will be shipped back to you in the same condition as they were received along with your completed project. We, however, cannot be responsible for the condition of your materials while they are in transit. For this reason, we will ask that you sign a waiver that absolves us, Nina’s Nostalgia of any responsibility while your materials are in transit. 

Photo Montage Video Specifics

Absolutely yes, you may! Just tell us what you would like to include in which photo. If you are having trouble coming up with the right words to say what you feel, just tell us what you have in mind and our artisans will formulate those thoughts and emotions into appropriate and meaningful words that capture what you would like to share. However, please keep in mind that these should be kept to a minimum if possible. Short and sweet is a good rule of thumb with regards to the use of text on photographs. Audiences usually would prefer to enjoy the photographs and home movies instead of reading about each and every photograph. Use these to simply explain something that may not be entirely clear to your viewers or accentuate an important photograph or part of a photograph.