Why you should backup and PRINT your digital photos
Whenever I talk to a new client, one of the first questions I ask is whether they have a backup plan for their photos. If they don’t, it will be the first thing we do. Why? Digital media is very prone to have failures. Here are a number of ways we...
9 Steps to Organize Your Printed Photos
Often the thought of the work it might take to organize your photos seems overwhelming and the hardest part is getting started. Here are some simple steps to get you on the road to organizing your printed photos. Find a workspace and get some basic...
Help Your Loved Ones Tell Their Stories with BiographyNow
You've heard stories all your life, but no one has recorded them. I have found a great service that will help our loved ones tell their stories in a simple budget-friendly way. BiographyNow creatives beautiful 10x10 inch hardcover "Life and Times" book...
You don’t have a storefront? How do you work with clients?
I both work in client's homes and in my home studio in Batavia. Getting started in a client's home offers me the best opportunity to see first-hand the organizing project ahead of me. When someone may have a lifetime of photos to organize, it is...
6 Steps to Prepare for Scanning Your Photos – and what you need to know before you get started.
As a photo organizer, I typically help the client through each of these steps. However, it is good information for do-it-yourselfers or for people to understand the process of scanning photos before you get started. About Scanning equipment and file...
12 Great Reasons to Scan Your Printed Photos
Fires, flood, storm and smoke damage - it happens. If your favorite photos are scanned and backed up properly, they will be protected from these disasters. Who remembers all the photos that were blown miles away during the tornadoes a few years...
What is photo scanning and is it something you should do?
I was recently talking to a client and asked her if she wanted to scan some of her favorite pictures as we worked. She asked what I meant by that. Another question I have had asked is how to "get a printed photo" on their computer. Sometimes we make assumptions...
Snowed In? Show Your Photos Some Love!
I always thought one of the advantages of living in the Midwest was the ability to take advantage of our inside time in the winter to work on inside projects without feeling guilty. One of my favorite activities is to finish up my yearly albums in January,...
NEVER, EVER USE FACEBOOK AS THE PRIMARY STORAGE FOR YOUR PHOTOS!
ACTUAL FACEBOOK POST: ISO HELP??? 😢😓😫90% of my photo albums are completely gone. Totally disappeared overnight!!This was the fifth report I’ve submitted to Facebook with absolutely no response!!!Those are the only copies of every picture I’ve taken from all...
Don’t wait to convert your VHS tapes!
Every year we wait to convert our home videos, the more likely the quality will continue to degrade. Here is a great article to explain just what is happening. Not only that, we often don't have the ability to play them on our equipment...