Friday, November 18, 2011

How to Keep and Protect Your Digital Photographs

By Autumn Lockwood


Even though it is tempting to print off every digital photograph that you have kept on a memory card and stick the "best-of-the-best" in picture frames to put on your mantel, it is typically not doable. Many people who take a great deal of pictures have countless numbers of pictures kept on hard drives and USB drives as well as memory cards, as well as other storage tools. So how do you best store and protect these images for future use? The hints below will allow you to do this very thing with your special photos.

Preserving Today's Memories Now

A photo is a great deal more than merely a visual reminder of a time that has gone by. Your pictures are priceless due to their ability to help keep you connected to what has passed and the things to come. Preserving your digital photos allows you to keep them for life and guarantees that your children, grandkids and also future generations will have the ability to enjoy them when you're gone. Use these suggestions to protect your pictures from becoming misplaced, deleted, or corrupted:

- Don't rely on a personal computer to safeguard your pictures. The normal amount of time that the hard drive (which stores your photos) on a computer will last is a mere five years. Your computer may suddenly stop working entirely, causing all of your photos to be completely lost. To keep that from occurring you need to make spare files of your photos on a second hard drive, or a few CDs, or maybe memory cards or a DVD. Another option is to upload your pictures to a picture storage service online, which is also a great way to make it easier to order prints, enlarged images, and other picture products.

- Stay updated on the most current technology for storing your digital pictures. Just like digital camera technology, any technology for keeping your photos is continually evolving and improving. Old technologies may become unreadable in case they are outdated. As an illustration, the floppy disk that was big in the nineties is no longer compatible with modern day computers. DVDs and CDs may also get corrupted as time passes, because of physical or chemical problems. Always keep your eye on developing technology and back your files up using the latest file storage system.

- Determine a plan for keeping your digital pictures and be consistent in your plan.

- Keep in mind that you'll want to make your favorite pictures and old photographs digital so you can preserve them with the rest of your pictures. Those priceless photographs in picture frames scattered throughout your house can easily be lost to fire or flooding. Having a digital copy of priceless pictures will enable you to reprint the photo if it is destroyed. And even if a printed picture is not as nice as the original, at least the memory will be preserved.

Your picture collection is a heritage for your children and coming generations, and the steps that you make to store and preserve your photos now will help to preserve your legacy for generations or longer.




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