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The Importance of Preservation and "How To" Guides
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Page 1 Preservation | "How To" Guides
Page 2 Projects for Families | Projects for Local Historical Societies
Page 3 Digital Learning | Preservation & Sharing Resources | Genealogy
► The Importance of Preservation
■ The Importance of Preserving Historical Photos and Documents
Historical photos and documents provide individuals and communities with a sense of identity, purpose, and place.....
■ Conserve, Preserve, or Restore. What is the Difference?
Preservation, conservation, and restoration have different meanings relative to both historical artifacts and land use......
► "How To" Guide to Image Sharing
■ Free Online Photo Albums and Share Sites
Major online printers now provide many useful free image storage and sharing capabilities, and some look much like a personal website.....
■ Build a Shutterfly Family Share Site
Not only does Shutterfly offer good printing products, but their free share site service is the best for extended families. This article describes why and provides a link to a sample family share stie so you can judge for yourself how flexible it can be...
■ Build a Shutterfly Historical Society Share Site
Shutterfly's share site service is free and flexible enough to create the equivalent of an interactive community web site. This article describes the possibilities and provides a link to a sample historical society share site....
High quality photo books are like the best of traditional photo albums and scrapbooks. Easily add text and captions to a themed collection of images to create a story book or historical record.....
■ Websites to Share Your Images
Many web hosting services will help you obtain a domain name and provide easy to customize templates for organizations, families, and businesses.....
■ Framing and Albums to Display Images
Many online options are now available to custom frame your images, create image groupings with museum quality ready-made frames, create dramatic large canvas prints, and to easily obtain archival quality album supplies.....
■ Copyright Considerations When Sharing Images
Copyright law is complicated and should not be taken lightly. However, some rules are clear and these provide significant latitude to pursue many photo and document preservation and sharing projects.
■ Ready-Made Frames - Tips and Suggestions for Do-It-Yourselfers
Ready-Made frames provide a convenient and inexpensive do-it-yourself solution to quality framing. Quality discounted frames are readily available online through reputable sources. Some basic considerations are provided in this article that can help the home framer in deciding on frame and print sizes.
■ Rules of Thumb for Photo Print Resolutions
In order to consistently obtain high quality print results, it is useful to understand how many pixels per inch of image detail you need.......
■ Pixel Resolution Requirements for Families & Historical Societies
Printing resolution requirements relate to planned image activities. The "right" resolution will balance file size storage requirements and common uses.....
■ Online Printer Resolution Recommendations
It is interesting to compare the minimum resolution requirements of several major online printers, as they have developed these based on customer satisfaction experience....
■ Dots Per Inch and inkjet Printers
Inkjet printers are the most common non-professional photo realistic printers. It is useful to understand DPI as it relates to printer ratings and print quality.....
► "How To" Guide to Scanning Photos and Documents
■ The Benefits of Scanning Images for Preservation
Image sharing possibilities are increased dramatically and the informational content of the image is preserved into the future..
■ Having Images Scanned Professionally
Major considerations include scan resolution, file format and compression, and cost.......
■ How Much Pixel Resolution Do You Need for Scans?
What scan resolutions are most likely to meet your needs for image sharing.....
■ Tips for High Quality Photo and Document Scanning
There are several good scanning habits that contribute to consistent high quality scans...
► "How To" Guide to Organizing Photo and Document Collections
■ A Methodology for Organizing Photos and Documents
A four step process to organize collections and set priorities for image preservation and sharing projects....
■ Tips for Sorting and Culling Photos and Documents
Sorting and culling is an important first step to getting a collection organized....
■ Cataloguing and Indexing Photos and Documents
When properly catalogued, a searchable library of images becomes more useful in many ways....
■ Archiving and Storing Digital Image Files
Proper organization and safeguarding duplicate copies of image files is part of developing some good habits....
► "How To" Guide to Storing Original Photos and Documents
Objectives in prolonging the useful like of paper artifacts is to slow natural chemical reactions and to avoid the introduction of factors that may accelerate damage....
■ The Major Environmental Storage Factors
Temperature, humidity, pollutants, pests, and exposure to light are among storage factors that should be considered.......
■ Tips for Storing Original Photo Prints and Documents
A collection of specific tips for storing originals...
There are labeling clues to the archival qualities of paper. Suppliers' definitions vary for acid free, pH balanced....
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Page 2 Projects for Families | Projects for Local Historical Societies
Page 3 Digital Learning | Preservation & Sharing Resources | Genealogy
