Organizing Pictures

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...

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,...

07 Jan

Posted at 16:59h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Photo Storage, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides by
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Another new year – another set of resolutions! We all know about Losing Weight, Eating More Healthily, and Saving Money.  There are lots of statistics showing what people resolved and whether they followed through.   One of the top ways to ensure achieving the resolution is to have a...

08 Dec

Posted at 19:22h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, 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’s your New Year’s resolution?  Lose weight? Exercise more?  Eat more healthily?  These are all great resolutions!  But I’d like to suggest a resolution to preserve family memories. I’ve talked to several people recently who have large photo collections.  The photos are in boxes and albums.  There...

27 Oct

Posted at 16:42h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Photo Storage by
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There are many, many photo backup solutions.  You want to keep your photos safe.  You know that disasters happen all the time:  fires, floods, hurricanes, you name it.  You know that photos should be backed up at least three ways:  the original, on-site backup, and...

30 Sep

Posted at 22:46h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Calendars, Photo Sharing Ideas by
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It’s hard to believe that 2018 is almost over!! It seems that this year just started. What better way to remember 2018 than to create a calendar for 2019!  Calendars could be created to remember birthdays, to remember a special trip taken, or special events. In my family,...

02 Sep

Posted at 22:09h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Prints, Scanning Slides by
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“The Save Your Photos initiative is a public service outreach campaign developed by APPO to teach individuals how they can preserve life’s irreplaceable photos, videos, and documents, in case of an unforeseen accident or disaster.   Protecting your photo and video collection could be the most important thing...