Certified Photo Organizer

04 Oct

Posted at 14:29h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Calendars, Photo Sharing Ideas, Photo Storage, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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Are you starting to think about the winter holidays, and what unique, meaningful gifts you could get for friends and family?  It feels like preparing for the winter holidays starts earlier and earlier each year! Sept, 1924 - Freddie's Christening One suggestion is to use your photos to...

02 Sep

Posted at 17:08h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks by
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In July, I wrote a blog about how to organize your printed loose photos.  This post is a continuation of that blog.   I’ve worked with four types of albums over the years: Sticky Album Sticky page albums.  Often, the stickiness has dried up, and the pictures no longer adhere to...

10 Aug

Posted at 11:00h in Certified Photo Organizer, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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I always loved summer and the vacations taken!  As far back as I can remember, we’ve always gone someplace.  Sometimes it was to the beach, sometimes to the mountains; sometimes to US National Parks, sometimes overseas. Sometimes we were with friends or family, sometimes it was just...

02 Jul

Posted at 13:50h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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What is the hardest part of a Photo Organizing project?  Getting started! You look at the boxes and innumerable amounts of pictures, and it can sap the energy right out of you!  The secret is to divide the work up into manageable smaller projects. For the past few weeks...

03 Jun

Posted at 17:41h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Storage, Scanning Slides by
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This blog is a follow-on to the one I wrote in May, in which I discussed the relative merits of tossing or storing photos and slides once they’ve been scanned (  https://preciousmemsphoto.com/2019/04/to-toss-or-to-store/?fbclid=IwAR3hd4hmoD4S0-wJ8JhgEBgPYRnbjIarz9xMFN-AkIVQFbMS6RTeL3yM-iU). So, you’ve decided to scan your photos and slides, and also decided to store them.  What...

30 Apr

Posted at 17:23h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Storage, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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Ok.  You’ve bitten the bullet and decided to organize your pictures.  You’re going to digitize your entire collection.  You’ve also decided that you’ll create a few photo books with some of the best or most important pictures with images of memorable people and events. Now what are you going...

02 Apr

Posted at 16:59h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Restoring photos, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Prints by
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Do you have old photos?  I don’t mean the ones you took last year, or even ten years ago, I mean the ones you got from your parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents. In looking at these pictures there are several issues: they are usually faded, sometimes...

04 Mar

Posted at 14:47h in Certified Photo Organizer, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Scanning Negatives, Scanning Slides by
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It may be daunting enough to organize prints, but what if you have slides and the projector has long ago stopped working, or worse yet, what if you only have negatives? The biggest difficulty with these media is that you cannot actually clearly see the images. Working...

03 Feb

Posted at 00:06h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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What kind of a gift do you get for someone who has lived a long and meaningful life, has everything they need, and most of what they want? They probably have plenty of clothes, plenty of jewelry. But mostly, they have plenty of memories. Memories of parents,...