Preserving Family Photos
/When your family photos are in yellowed and sticky albums, here is a plan for saving and preserving sentimental images:
If the photos can be removed without sticky residue remaining on the back, you will have both options of either transferring to a new album or moving directly to digitization.
If choosing new album, remove photos gently and temporarily place in a container.
If they cannot be removed or if you have already decided on going digital, you can move directly to “digitizing” the images by the following ways:
with your phone, simply take the best photo you can of each image and then store in “the cloud” or your computer hard drive
use a portable hand held scanner to capture each image
find a photo digitization service, this is often offered at photo labs and data management companies
If your photos were removed easily and you choose not to go digital at this time, re-organize the photos in an acid free album.
However, if upon removing the photos you are undecided about next steps, don’t worry! Place them temporarily into a clean shoebox but do not store them away. Add a note in your calendar (no more than one week out) to revisit the process and make a decision for the final plan.
Once you have chosen to digitize photos but want to actually enjoy them, there are many online services and local photo stores that can turn your images into photo books!
