| Stacks, drawers, boxes, albums - all full of | | | | all their photographs. |
| photographs. Each photograph has a significant | | | | There are many alternatives to preserving your |
| meaning, capturing a time, place or person that we | | | | photos. You can hire a service, there are an |
| wanted to remember. Today we have an abundance | | | | abundance of companies that offer this type of |
| of photographs on our home computers, because of | | | | service on the internet. Most companies charge by the |
| time restraints many find a home on our hard drive, | | | | photograph and the DPI (dots per inch). Buy a scanner |
| never seeing the light of day! | | | | and start scanning, the upside is you will save money |
| Over the years your hard copies of photos will fade, | | | | when you buy your own scanner, downside is this is |
| that just one of the reasons it is important to preserve | | | | an extremely time consuming process. |
| your photographs. Often times we don't realize how | | | | When I scan my photographs in a 300-600 dpi it |
| precious these photographs are until disaster hits; | | | | usually takes about an hour to do sixty photographs. I |
| flooded basements, fire, humidity, natures elements are | | | | then open up Photoshop and start enhancing each of |
| not always kind to our photographs. When a natural | | | | the photos by restoring color, removing red eye and |
| disaster hits you can replace most of the items you | | | | any blemishes on the photograph. This is very time |
| lost in your home; the one thing you cannot replace is | | | | consuming but it is all part of the process. |
| your photographs, your memories. | | | | Once your photographs are scanned and placed in the |
| The importance of scanning and preserving our | | | | proper folders; for example, Betsy infant to preschool, |
| photographs can been seen in the faces of those who | | | | etc., you can now download your photos to cds. I |
| lost all their photos in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, | | | | suggest that you make several copies of the cds, |
| Alabama, Texas, Iowa, and among others California | | | | keep one for yourself, send one to a friend or family |
| fires. I remember watching countless interviews on | | | | member in another state for safe keeping and put one |
| television, countless individuals relived their experiences, | | | | in a fire proof box. |
| more often than not they mentioned that they had lost | | | | |