First Choice Photo - Photolab

Save your photo memories before disaster strikes. photo digitizing and restorations. YOUR WORK NEVER GETS SHIPPED!!!!

You have stacks, shoe boxes, drawers full of your old photographic memories, and you need to digitize these old photographs, slides and negatives.

But where do you go that you can trust? Well if you're in Southern Alberta the number one choice is Paterson photography / First Choice photo lab in Lethbridge Alberta.

All the work is digitized on site. Nothing is ever shipped!!

Our climate controlled secure office is perfect for protecting your old photos while they're on our premises.

We remove minor dust, as well as we do minor color correction and density correction.

If you have photos with back printing we can even digitize that.

Stop in, give us a call, or email or message us for more information.

Paterson photography / First Choice photo lab

1263c 2nd Avenue South Lethbridge, Alberta.

Located on the west side of our building at the back.

403-327-1114

You Can Print Your Photos Anywhere. But We Print Your Memories.

That picture of your child laughing. The first day of school. A family vacation. A grandparent holding a grandchild. The little moments you never want to forget.

You can have those photos printed almost anywhere. But when those pictures are important to you, where you have them printed matters.

At Paterson Photography / First Choice Photo Lab in Lethbridge, we’ve spent 41 years printing photographs. We don't simply put ink on paper, we understand that we're printing something much more important: your memories.

📸 Professional-quality printing
We use top-of-the-line professional photo printers and carefully selected archival-quality photo paper designed for long-term preservation.

🎨 Colour that look like the real moment
Our goal isn't to make your photographs look artificially bright, overly saturated or unnaturally enhanced. We strive for accurate, natural-looking colour so your printed photograph looks like the moment you remember.

🖼️ Made to last
Your photographs deserve more than the cheapest paper and printing materials available. When you're preserving photographs of the people you love, quality matters. Archival-quality photographic materials can help your prints stand the test of time.

❤️ Because time doesn't stand still.
Your children grow up. Families change. Grandparents won't always be here. That little girl holding a photograph of herself today will one day look back at that picture and realize just how quickly those years passed.

Digital photos are wonderful, but they're easy to leave sitting on a phone, computer or cloud account, where they may eventually be forgotten.

A printed photograph is different.

You can hold it. Frame it. Put it in an album. Give it to someone you love. And years from now, that photograph can bring the memory rushing back.

Don't trust your most important memories to the cheapest option simply because it's convenient.

Bring your photographs to people who have been printing memories for 41 years.

📍 Paterson Photography / First Choice Photo Lab — Lethbridge, Alberta
1263c 2 Ave South - 403-327-1114

Because you can print a photo anywhere. But we print your memories.

When your neighbor is The Green Grotto you get some very colorful flowers for decor in your office. Was going to take the flowers home for my wife but they look so good here now I'm not sure.

The Green Grotto

Scanning of all types of photo media, pictures and documents. All done at out office in Lethbridge.... NEVER SHIPPED!!

Contact us today for any questions or to book a time to bring your photos, artwork or documents in.

If you ever bought a camera that came with a kit lens, you may want to know what kind of quality you can expect from it. In this video I talk about kit lenses and the good and the bad about them. You may not have to upgrade your lenses as soon as you think.
Watch over on my YouTube channel. Link in the first comment......

Need picture printed, want to stay cool?

Order your photo prints online from home or work.

Most orders done the same day.

Lethbridge's ONLY locally owned photo lab!! 41 years experience!!!!

First Choice Photo Lab
Lethbridge, AB
1263c 2 Ave South
403-327-1114

I asked AI to redesign my printing room. I LOVE THE LOOK OF IT but missing 99% of the stuff that I have in my printing room. What a difference in what people, and AI, think a printing room looks like and what one actually looks like. I won't show you what mine actually looks like, lets say it is not near as organized, BUT more functional and practical.

Lethbridge full service photo lab - photo prints, restorations, frames

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