First things first!!! Can we all agree that it is imperative that you get those old print photographs scanned? Simply put, they are just not safe if you don’t have a digital back up of each of your prints. I am on a mission to make sure everyone is on…
Print those phone pictures already!
I am religious about this one and I can tell you my entire family is thankful for it. We all enjoy those pictures and I cherish the conversations that are prompted by the pictures just as much as the photographs themselves. The reason I am able to so easily do…
Negative talk…
Correct that…. positive talk about negatives! 🙂 When it comes to photo organizing, I get a lot of questions about old negatives. Here are some of the most common questions and my suggestions! How do I get a digital scan of a negative? Many scanners come with an adapter to…
It’s all about perspective….
Is your photo organizing project under way? My step-father recently told me that he had located boxes of his own childhood photographs and wanted help getting digital copies of those pictures. When I got together with him I saw (for the first time) the most amazing collection of photographs from…
Metadata! Like writing on the back of a photo, only cooler.
Metadata: (according to Webster) a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. Why should we all know this tech term when photo organizing? Basically said, it’s like writing on the back of the photo. It’s all of the details we would want to have captured about…
Storing old pictures in boxes? Here’s why that’s a bad idea!
So you have old family pictures, shoe boxes full to be exact, and you feel like they are nicely stored away for safe keeping. I’m here to tell you, that may not be the case. After Hurricane Ian I spent months helping people to try to save their flood damaged…
Printing 4×6 pictures? Here is My Photo Lab Comparison.
Are you searching for the best photo lab? It’s time! If you haven’t started yet, you need to print those photographs that are on your phone. But where do you send them to get the BEST quality? And what is the least expensive option? There is no shortage of photo…
Do I need to back up my photographs?
That was a question I was asked recently. The simple answer is YES. But let me explain a little more why that is so important. Many of you may already know I began helping people to organize their photographs after spending months helping flood victims salvage damaged photographs. Thousands of…
Archival Photo Storage
Ok. Let’s talk about the word “archival”. It basically means the material it is made out of won’t harm or damage your photographs, but there really are no universal standards for what is or is not archival. It is basically left to the manufacturer to determine if they feel their…
Let’s Digitize Those Old Albums!
You can do it! It’s much easier than you might think! There are simple steps, even young kids can help. ONE – Locate all of those old pictures and put them in chronological order. Keeping everything chronological is the key to good organization. If you have several albums from different…