Betterway Books Preserving Your Family Photographs Preserving Your Family Photographs
Organize and display your precious family photographs so that friends and loved ones can enjoy them for years to come Author Maureen Taylor shows you how, providing all the basic information you need to care for your family photograph collection. She outlines in straightforward steps how to add value to your home collection by applying the concepts that conservators and photo curators use every day. You'll learn how to: organize your photographs for both family history research and display identify the types of damage to the photos in your collection create a stunning scrapbook using archive quality guidelines handle cased images such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes select a conservator to repair damaged photos and protect them from future deterioration select a restoration expert to restore damaged photos, using airbrushing, digital manipulation or photographic enhancements use photo identification techniques to answer the who, what, when, where and why of a picture evaluate computer programs that offer organizational solutions prepare for the future of photography, including electronic archives and family home pages understand the legal aspects of family photography take advantage of low-cost alternatives to traditional photo preservation techniques Each chapter ends by providing answers to a series of frequently asked questions. You'll also find special appendices for sources of family photographs, along with important addresses for conservators, magazines, suppliers, societies, organizations, restoration services, archival storage facilities, Web sites and more. Don't put off doing today what may be too late to do tomorrow. Preserve your family photographs now and capture memories that will last a lifetime. Betterway Books, 2001. Paperback, 246 pages. ISBN 1558705791