Posts Tagged ‘scanning’
Scanned Your Photos? Don’t Make This Common Mistake
Finished scanning your old photos? Keep the prints, too. Digital files can fail, but those originals are a tangible piece of your family’s story. Store them safely so your memories are protected in every format.
Read MoreHow to Safely Ship Photos and Slides for Scanning: A Step-by-Step Checklist
Get peace of mind when mailing your memories. This quick checklist will help you safely ship your photos and slides for scanning—so nothing gets lost along the way.
Read MoreFrom Chaos to Clarity: Preserving a Family Legacy After Loss
Discover how 3 siblings preserved decades of memories after a loss by organizing, scanning, and digitizing their parents’ chaotic photo collection.
Read MoreWhat To Do With Kids’ Artwork and School Papers (Without Losing Your Mind)
Drowning in kids’ artwork and school papers? You’re not alone. From coloring pages to macaroni crafts, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the endless stream of creations. This post shares simple, guilt-free strategies to help you decide what to keep, how to store it, and creative ways to preserve your child’s masterpieces without the mess.
Read More3 Ways to View Your Slides Before You Scan Them
If you have boxes or projector carousels full of slides, but no way to view them, what do you do? Continue to let your slides sit unseen at the top of the closet? Let’s not. Allow us to suggest a few ways to preview your slides before you have them scanned. Use Your Phone or…
Read MoreDon’t Let Memories Fade: Top Reasons to Scan Your Old Slides
Slides, trays of slides, boxes of slides, slide projectors, light bulbs for slide projectors…all of these things are like items from a gone-by era. I remember my grandparents pulling out the slide projector and screen at a family gathering and enduring hours of click-click, picture-picture, blah-blah-blah. Ok, I was 5 so it was probably more…
Read MoreHow to Preserve and Share Your Vintage Photo Albums & Scrapbooks
Do you have piles of old crumbling photo albums or shelves of beautiful, but bulky scrapbooks? Are you wondering what the best way to preserve them and share them with your family? We have a few ideas. Scanning Photo Albums and Scrapbooks One of the best ways to preserve your old photo albums or scrapbooks…
Read MoreThe Beginner’s Guide to Organizing Your Printed Photos
If you are of a certain age, you probably have printed photographs scattered all over the house: treasured black and white pictures of your great-grandparents in frames, multiple packages of school pictures in a drawer, and photo envelopes from the 80s with duplicate, even triplicate prints in a bin in the closet. Now is…
Read More20+ Creative Photo Book Ideas to Showcase Your Memories
Many prospective clients I talk to list “making a photo book” as one of their top priorities after their photos are digitized and organized. What a fantastic goal! Unlike a traditional photo album, photo books can be created once and printed many times. They make fabulous gifts and help keep your photos “out” where they…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Backup Your Photos
Why Do I Need To Backup My Photos? Imagine that your computer crashes. All of your files have disappeared. Which files will cause the most heartbreak: the old Word documents from 2018 or the digital photos of your daughter’s kindergarten graduation in 2016? I’m going to guess it’s the photos. If your home were to…
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