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Keeping Your Photos Safe: The Scientific Side

The scientific side of keeping your photographs safe goes far beyond just keeping your photos away from water, dirt, high temperatures and making sure not to leave fingerprints and scratches. Although those are important, there are some more scientific things to be aware of. Most scrapbookers have heard the word acidic and the words lignin free. Perhaps you’ve even heard of buffered. But what does all this mean to a scrapbooker and how do you take proper precautions to make sure that the supplies you are using won’t damage your photographs? The first rule is always to look for supplies … Continue reading →

Keeping Your Photos Safe: Fingerprints and Scratches

Fingerprints can quickly diminish the quality of your photographs. And although a fingerprint can be avoided or wiped away, a scratch is permanent and it is a costly situation to have repaired by a professional. These are two additional ways that your photos can be damaged and two situations that need to be addressed. When handling your photographs, you should hold the edges. Some experts recommend wearing a special type of glove, but I have found that unnecessary. As long as when holding photographs, you attempt to hold the edges, you should be alright. You can place your photos in … Continue reading →

Keeping Your Photos Safe: Extreme Temperatures

Continuing on in the Keeping Your Photos Safe series, another large contributor to photo damage was listed as temperatures and climate issues. In this regard, temperatures can play a huge part in how fast or how slowly your photographs fade. This isn’t just the case with photo storage, but in album storage as well. The sad stories I heard at a photo preservation class I taught, told about photographs ruined from basement storage, attic storage, garage storage and even storage units at non climate control companies. People have lost precious memories due to completely controllable circumstances. First, attics and basements … Continue reading →

More Ideas to Get Organized and Enjoy Your Hobby

Organization is key to productivity in any hobby or environment really. It’s easy to organize if you start small and build on it. Don’t expect everything to just happen, and don’t expect it to happen quickly either. It takes time and practice. It takes twenty one days to make anything a habit. So imagine that it is going to take you twenty one days from the day you actually get it all organized before it becomes second nature to you. In a previous article I provided a couple of basic ways to get organized and enjoy your hobby more. I … Continue reading →

Double, Even Triple Picture Prints

Many scrapbookers choose to only get single prints when they get their film developed. This isn’t the worst practice if you are trying to stay organized, but it can be costly if you have to get reprints later. Many times, I opt to get doubles, and even more recently I’ve been known to get triple prints. I’m sure you are wondering why, so I would love to explain. With single prints, I can get the photos on the layout, get the layout in the album and feel a great sense of accomplishment when there is a dent in my photo … Continue reading →

Making Backups of Digital Picture Files

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Nicole, over at the scrapbooking blog, did a nice four part series on organizing and storing photos. Her articles had to do with prints of photos. But what do you do if you have digital prints? You can just store them on your computer’s hard drive, right? I mean, I have a 60 GB hard drive. Isn’t that for storing lots of digital pictures? While it is true that a large hard drive is good for working with photos, it is not the only place that you should save your pictures. Backing up your hard drive is good practice, and … Continue reading →

Organizing Your Photos: Part Four – Storing

Storing your photographs is one of the most important processes in scrapbooking. You need your photographs to stay safe and archival. Here are a few ways to make this process easier and ensure that you are preserving your photographs, so that you can later preserve your memories. Store photographs in a cool place that it not subject to high humidity. In home’s where the weather contains large amounts of humidity, it is best to store photos in a dark closet within a sealed container. Please be sure that your container is PVC free or damage is likely to occur to … Continue reading →

Organizing Your Photos: Part Three – Selecting

Once your photos are in order, you can determine which pictures you wish to use in each album. It’s sometimes hard to decide what you want to use on a layout and what you want to keep for another type of album. I hope that these tips make that decision just a bit easier for you. Use the post it notes, boxes, files, or baggies. Make a place for each album you want to create. For example, if you are making one for each child, write the name of each child on a separate post it and begin selecting photos … Continue reading →