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Preserve Your Family Pictures: How To Save Photo Heirlooms for Future Generations
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Our family pictures are priceless and irreplaceable, a visual record of memories and loved ones. They deserve and require special care to ensure they will still be around to pass on to the next generations. Aging, dust, the wrong environments among other factors put them at risk for deterioration and/or other losses.
Learn to take the practical steps to preserve and protect your family photos, both the physical prints, and digital formats. Ensure that your treasures will survive. Get your copy now.
Our family pictures are priceless and irreplaceable, a visual record of memories and loved ones. They deserve and require special care to ensure they will still be around to pass on to the next generations. Aging, dust, the wrong environments among other factors put them at risk for deterioration and/or other losses.
Learn to take the practical steps to preserve and protect your family photos, both the physical prints, and digital formats. Ensure that your treasures will survive. Get your copy now.
43 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 13, 2014
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February 14, 2015
I downloaded this book to my Kindle library when it was free for a 24-hour period.
Yes, it gives information about preserving physical and digital photos.
I like that it gives me a priority about where to start:
1. Identify people in old pictures while relatives still know who they are
2. Remove photos from magnetic albums.
3. Digitize color photos before they fade and discolor more than they already are.
4. Digitally restore copies of those color photos.
I recommend this short book to all readers interested in this topic.
Yes, it gives information about preserving physical and digital photos.
I like that it gives me a priority about where to start:
1. Identify people in old pictures while relatives still know who they are
2. Remove photos from magnetic albums.
3. Digitize color photos before they fade and discolor more than they already are.
4. Digitally restore copies of those color photos.
I recommend this short book to all readers interested in this topic.
July 31, 2017
Preserve Your Family Pictures: How To Save Photo Heirlooms for Future Generations by Amber Richar
The way we go about saving our photos from the 1900's was to scan them in and put them on a hard drive at which point each of the kids, living in different US locations, got a copy along with their own hard drive.
It's my job to update our daily/weekly photos and place them on the hd and notify the kids to send theres along once a year so we all have updated photos.
Like the subjects this book covers, preserving what you have. I'm not too concerned with that as I store them on hd's and can print them at anytime I want.
Discusses methods for photo preservation. Lots of different discussions in how to store them and why one method is better than another.
The thing that took the longest time for me to do was organizing them by year.
Has sections on digital also on how to fix photos even and suggests a local photoshop class. Discusses slides and other forms of photos.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end
The way we go about saving our photos from the 1900's was to scan them in and put them on a hard drive at which point each of the kids, living in different US locations, got a copy along with their own hard drive.
It's my job to update our daily/weekly photos and place them on the hd and notify the kids to send theres along once a year so we all have updated photos.
Like the subjects this book covers, preserving what you have. I'm not too concerned with that as I store them on hd's and can print them at anytime I want.
Discusses methods for photo preservation. Lots of different discussions in how to store them and why one method is better than another.
The thing that took the longest time for me to do was organizing them by year.
Has sections on digital also on how to fix photos even and suggests a local photoshop class. Discusses slides and other forms of photos.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end
May 4, 2018
Good information
The book was very good for a novice as myself. I appreciated the level of simplicity and the introduction to ideas to take my learning farther.
The book was very good for a novice as myself. I appreciated the level of simplicity and the introduction to ideas to take my learning farther.
May 10, 2018
How to save your pictures
This is a good book. You might want to write notes when reading it. Have fun! Family history is important.
This is a good book. You might want to write notes when reading it. Have fun! Family history is important.
January 27, 2019
Very good quick overview of the topic. I'm now looking for something longer with more advanced instructions, but this book is a good (short) starting point.
June 28, 2021
The story line is sensational, it has all the right ingredients for a nonfiction.
February 28, 2022
Some good tips about rescuing water damaged photos, that I wish I had known when I experienced such damage! Also good advice on handling those old magnetic albums from the 60’s.
May 8, 2015
This book is full of the exact details on how to deal with an old photograph collection. You can tell that the author has seen it all!
It was interesting for me to look at as a millennial who doesn't really have any old photos yet. It made me reminiscent of looking at photos with my mom of her childhood and my ancestors. I don't think this book is written for my generation, but maybe it will come in handy we all inherit all the old photo collections.
I think we can work extremely hard to keep physical photos in as good a shape as possible, but some day it will nearly all be digital. Of course people will always be nostalgic for physical film, so it might come back with a vengeance. Who knows?
It was interesting for me to look at as a millennial who doesn't really have any old photos yet. It made me reminiscent of looking at photos with my mom of her childhood and my ancestors. I don't think this book is written for my generation, but maybe it will come in handy we all inherit all the old photo collections.
I think we can work extremely hard to keep physical photos in as good a shape as possible, but some day it will nearly all be digital. Of course people will always be nostalgic for physical film, so it might come back with a vengeance. Who knows?
May 17, 2014
This is a must read for every family that values their family pictures! It's a project that sometimes seems daunting and easy to put off, but should not be. The longer a person waits to tackle it, the more potential loss of the photos might happen.
This book goes into both the preservation of physical photo prints, and digital photos.
This book goes into both the preservation of physical photo prints, and digital photos.
July 22, 2014
Great book and written in everyday language so that anyone can follow. I was very impressed with all of the suggestions. This is a task that I'm going to do and this is the best book I've found on the subject. Good luck!
November 17, 2016
Family history in photography
This is a simple easy book to read about preserving your family photographs . Most of the information is common sense . However it does give you a desire to maintain a family history through properly storing your photographs.
This is a simple easy book to read about preserving your family photographs . Most of the information is common sense . However it does give you a desire to maintain a family history through properly storing your photographs.
October 17, 2025
A lot to digest
It is well worth reading. The next reading will be piecemeal. Just rereading the sorting out of photos and doing the sorting is a major project . But the book lays out a plan.
It is well worth reading. The next reading will be piecemeal. Just rereading the sorting out of photos and doing the sorting is a major project . But the book lays out a plan.
May 30, 2014
A great book that gives you realistic and helpful ways to preserve family treasures on paper and digital. A must for every photographer or scrap book enthusiast.
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