Your parents gave you a box of Family Photos, now what?

Your parents gave you a box of Family Photos, now what?

I can’t tell you how many times I hear this story….

Mom and Dad are downsizing and have been kind enough to separate the family photos and distribute them to all the children. Now I have several boxes of photos of me when I was a kid and I don’t know what to do with them.

Sound Familiar?

While this story sounds like a big problem it’s really not. Here is how I have helped several clients.

First, I suggest that we scan the photos.

- By scanning them, it will digitize the images so we can use them in other forms and we will be able to edit the images.

Second, I suggest we discuss how you want to organize the original images?

(A) In a photo safe box (B) In a scrapbook or (C) Trash them

That’s right I said throw them away.

No I haven’t lost my mind, I suggest this because we now have all of the images edited and digitized. These photos now look better than ever and are ready to go into a custom digital album.

Now for any of you who just can’t stand to think of such an idea, then I would suggest we scrapbook them. If we organize them into a photo safe box, your photos are still going to be in a box. However, if we put the original images in a scrapbook, you will now able to take that book off the shelf and enjoy those photos anytime you want.

Finally…But now we have great looking digitized images, you can make a custom digital book out of these!

- Think of this….. If we take these images and put them into a custom digital photo book, we can now enjoy them in a book form that will be less than one inch thick and we can make more than one copy of this book. You can give Mom and Dad a copy to put in their newly downsized home and you can have a copy to put on your book shelf.

So to recap, our original problem was you received a box of photos from your parents. They are photos of you when you were growing up and you want to enjoy them but you just don’t know where to begin. Now, you have a solution!

Relive your childhood and share the stories; when you’re gone the stories will be to!

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