Media: BOOK - paperback, 240 pages
Author: D. Levenick
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9781440340963
Other: b&w photos, appendix, index
Publisher: Family Tree Books

Finally! Practical solutions to organising your ever-growing digital photo collection. Discover simple strategies and step-by-step instructions to manage photos across devices, create an easy-to-use filing system, and enjoy your memories via 25 easy photo projects.

You've captured countless cherished family photos of babies' first steps, graduations, wedding, holidays, vacations and priceless everyday moments on your smartphone or digital camera. And perhaps you've inherited a collection of heirloom family photos too. But now what?

'How to Archive Family Photos' is a practical how-to guide for organising your growing digital photo collection, digitising and preserving heirloom family photos, and sharing your treasured photos.

In this book, you'll find:
 - Simple strategies to get your photos out of a smartphone or camera and into a safe storage space
 - Easy methods to organise and backup your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hints
 - Achievable steps to digitise and preserve heirloom family photos
 - Step-by-step workflows illustrating common photo organising and digitizing scenarios
 - Checklists for setting up your own photo organisation system
 - 25 photo projects to preserve, share, and enjoy your family photos

Whether you have boxes full of tintypes and black-and-white photographs, an ever-growing collection of digital photos, or a combination of the two, 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.

Contents:
Introduction

Part 1: Organize
1. Digital Imaging Basics
2. Transfer Tips
3. Photo-Management Software
4. Online Photo Services
5. Digital Photo-Management Workflow

Part 2: Digitize
6. Heirloom Photo Collections
7. Digitization Preparation
8. Scanning Equipment
9. Scanning Tactics
10. Heirloom Photo Storage

Part 3: Create
11. Core Photo-Project Skills
12. Card, Collage and Scrapbooking Projects
13. Calendar Projects
14. Smartphone and Tablet Projects
15. Fabric and Home Decor Craft Projects
16. Photo-Book Projects

Appendix: Photo Organizing and Digitizing Resources
Index