PHOTOGRAPHS
HOW TO:
STORE, FILE, DISPLAY AND OTHER IDEAS FOR YOUR PRECIOUS KEEPSAKES
I had a collection of slides and old photographs going back over 60 years including those my parents had collected. Most had been stored in old photo albumns which had deteriorated and many of the photo's were undated with little details .
I took it upon myself to store these memories digitally as well as many in acid free albumns and scrapbooks.
It was a daunting task to start with but this is how I proceeded.
I started by scrapbooking my children's baby photographs up to they finished school. These included old slides which I had taken off and printed. Some of these were badly damaged but I managed to save them and enhance some using various software I had on my computer including Adobe Photoshop.
1. Divided the photo's into children
2. Then sorted by year - used old envelopes and dated and added the photo's by years as I sorted. Some could only be an estimated but only out by a year in most cases.
3. Scrapped the best of them including school photographs. Now my scrapbooking skills are not great but I wanted to mainly add something about the photo's for my children and grandchildren. For example I included vaccination booklets, copies of baptisms. Noted where we were living and interesting tit bits that would be forgotten. So I used some pretty acid free papers for the backgrounds attached the photo's by acid free stickers, ear corners or glue sometimes enhancing with acid free stickers and then typed up a small story (for each page or photo) using A4 typing paper and trimmed to shape and glued this to the page or under individual photographs.
4. I presented each of the finished albumns to my children on their birthdays. They were very well pleased.
If you want to get more artistic take some lessons from your local scrapbooking supplier.