Chapter 05 of 07
PRESERVATION
Save your family archive
Scanning old photographs, negatives and slides, restoring them, and storing them so they survive another generation.
Articles in this chapter
- 05.1
checked 12 October 20262 sourcesScanning old photographs, negatives and slides
How to digitise a family archive — what resolution to choose for prints, negatives and slides (with the calculation), how to remove dust safely, how to restore faded colours and how to print the restored photograph.
- 05.2
checked 12 October 20264 sourcesStoring photographs and negatives
How to store photographs, negatives and slides following Library of Congress and NEDCC guidance — temperature and relative humidity, enclosures that meet ISO 18902 and the PAT, boxes, labelling and what not to do.
In preparation
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- How to identify the type of an old photograph
- Albums with self-adhesive pages: what to do with them
- Captioning and sorting a digitised archive