Preserving Your Photo Memories
About this event
An educational event focused on techniques and best practices for preserving physical and digital photo memories.
What to Expect
- 1.You'll leave with a simple, repeatable three-step workflow for preserving both physical and digital photos: sort and date your collection, digitize important prints, and store backups in multiple places.
- 2.There will be a quick hands-on demo of scanning settings and file formats, so you know when to use TIFF versus high-quality JPEG and how to keep color accurate.
- 3.Learn a practical naming convention and metadata basics so you can actually search your archives years from now.
- 4.The talk covers safe storage for prints (acid-free sleeves, boxes) and the tradeoffs between cloud backups and external drives, using a simple 3-2-1 rule.
- 5.For physical photos, you’ll get hands-on tips on handling to avoid creases and sun damage and ideas for organizing into themed albums or digital folders.
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