Are You Ready to go from Photo Chaos to Photo Control?
Learn to manage ALL your photos, from smartphone, camera, and computer downloads
from The Family Curator
How to Archive Family Photos will help you rescue your images from the depths of hard drives and memory cards (or from the backs of closets) so that you can organize and preserve your photo family photo collection for future generations.
- Organize ALL Your Digital Images
- Preserve and Care for Heirloom Photos
- Understand Cloud Backup Storage
- Shopper’s Guide to Scanners and Equipment
- PLUS 25 Easy Keepsake Projects with Step-by-Step Instructions
- 240 pages PLUS Bonus PDFs
- Available in Paperback, Kindle, and eBook Editions
Reviews & Comments
In my family history book collection, I have very few titles that I am willing to designate as “bibles” or “canonical works” meaning that the book is the go-to guide on the subject. We are talking classics such as Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills or The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. Now I can add How to Archive Family Photos to that special place on my bookshelf. — Thomas MacEntee, GeneaBloggers Founder
As a genealogist, I’ve also digitized old cabinet cards, tiny early 20th century photos, faded mid-century snapshots, and old menus and keepsakes. I’ve taken pictures of tombstones in numerous cemeteries, and made digital copies of probate packets and pension files. How, then, do I go about creating an organized system out of this jumble of modern events and historical treasures? How to Archive Family Photos answers all these questions, along with some I didn’t even know to ask. Here are the strategies I’ve been looking for. — Shelley Bishop, Professional Genealogist
Table of Contents
PART 1: Organize
Chapter 1: Digital Imaging Basics
Chapter 2: Transfer Tips
Chapter 3: Photo-Management Software
Chapter 4: Online Photo Services
Chapter 5: Digital Photo-Management Work Flow
PART 2: Digitize
Chapter 6: Heirloom Photo Collections
Chapter 7: Digitization Preparation
Chapter 8: Scanning Equipment
Chapter 9: Scanning Tactics
Chapter 10: Heirloom Photo Storage
PART 3: Create 25 Keepsake Photo Projects
View Color Project Photos
Chapter 11: Core Photo Project Skills
Chapter 12: Card, Collage, and Scrapbooking Projects
– thank-you card
– mouse pad collage
– holiday greeting card collage
– ancestor collage
– custom Facebook cover photo
– digital scrapbook tribute page
Chapter 13: Calendar Projects
– wall calendar
– perpetual celebration calendar
– year-in-the-life calendar
– family foodie calendar
Chapter 14: Smartphone and Tablet Projects
– mobile apps to label a photo
– tombstone photo enhancement
– photo book
– family history timeline
– audio photo book
Chapter 15: Fabric and Home Décor Craft Projects
– vintage holiday photo pillow
– photo quilt block
Chapter 16: Photo Book Projects
– custom photo book
– auto-fill birthday book
– heirloom reproduction book
– family yearbook
– grandparent and grandchild memory book
– photo book for busy people
– remembrance and celebration book.
APPENDIX: Photo Organizing and Digitizing Resources