Preservation: Save Your Stuff and Pass It On!

This book is a comprehensive guide to the environmental conditions that damage documents and photographs, and the appropriate preventative measures. There are also instructions to clean and repair items, locating and working with a conservator and arrange document and photograph collections.

A practical how-to guide for organizing your growing digital photo collection, digitizing 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 organize and back up your digital photos, including file-naming and tagging hints; Achievable steps to digitize and preserve heirloom family photos.

Scrapbooks may be the most obvious way to corral treasured photographs, but many other items also lend themselves to memory crafting. In Memory Gifts: Preserving Your Treasured Past in Special Ways, Marie Browning offers an assortment of ideas for utilizing photos in home accessories and a few wearables.

This book showcases the many new archival products that have been developed and illuminates new trends in scrapbooking. Readers will also discover new ideas for preserving and presenting more family heirlooms and relics than ever before, including:  cassette and video tapes, using a scanner to restore faded or damaged photographic images, and an entire chapter on saving family recipes.

Taylor outlines in straightforward steps how to save your family photographs by using the methods that conservators and photo curators use everyday. You'll learn how to Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection, take care of all your photos so that damage is a thing of the past, select a conservator to repair damaged photos and preserve your digital images.

Learn about the conservation and restoration of old photographs.

A guide to scrapbooking and journaling collects tips and techniques for preserving memories, photographs, and family stories.