Scanning a convex photo from early 1900s?

<p>Hello,<br>

My wife's family has a number of convex family photos from the late 1800's and early 1900's. I had always assumed that they couldn't be scanned but then I saw this link in an email from Family Tree Magazine's photo detective section.<br>

<a href="http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/photodetectiveblog/">http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/photodetectiveblog/</a><br />(scroll down to the Tuesday, July 07,2009 entry)<br>

Does anyone know where I can have this done? I contacted some of the remaining photo labs in the Seattle area and none of them do this type of work.<br>

Google searches have so far been fruitless.<br>

Tim Lindsey</p>

<p>Greetings Tim, First please share with us the dimensions (top to bottom and middle section side to side). You will not be able to scan this photo on a scanner but you could likely make a decent copy with use of a digital camera. I can't locate a copy of it at present, but I once took several photos (at various angles) of a large sized convexed photo. With taking the best centered shot and joining (cropped) segments from the angles shots and stitching them together in PS. It' took some time, a few hours, but I made a very decent copy. Fortunately, it was black and white, so the gray scale reduced work with matching tonality differences. If tinted with color it would invole a little more (or a lot) of work. If it is tones, you can perhaps still convert it to gray scale and try using transparent color layers in PS to match the original. Charles</p>