Written by Amy Hammond The 1980s were a time of profound change. The DVD started its campaign to kick out the old VHS, walkmans made music portable, and synth-pop changed the sound of music forever. Photography also experienced incredible changes …
Written by Amy Hammond Are you looking at a shoebox filled with film strips? However, before you prep the darkroom or begin scanning all of those stacks of old pictures and negatives, you must first learn how to clean negatives …
Written by Amy Hammond Once you have gone through the process of scanning your photos at home, you might be wondering what’s next. After years being stored in boxes or albums, it’s likely that your pictures might not look their …
Do you have both the negatives and print copies of your photos? If you do, you may be wondering should you scan negatives or scan photos to get the most out of your memories. We have put together this guide …
Written by Amy Hammond It’s not unusual to find handwriting on photos when looking through your family memories at home. Notes describing people in the photo and when it was taken are commonly found on the back side of photographs …
IDENTIFYING AGE OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS Written by Amy Hammond Identifying the age of the old photographs can be done by examining the following characteristics of the photo: the color of the borders, the thickness and the style of the photo …
Written by Amy Hammond When you’re digging through old boxes of photos and albums, the first thing on your mind is not going to be the difference between a full page scan and an individual crop. You’re going to be …
Written by Amy Hammond At EverPresent, we spend all day looking at amateur and professional child photography. Whether we’re digitizing a family collection or de-duplicating a parent’s digital library – we see some amazing kid photos. We’re also a team …
Written by Amy Hammond Vintage scrapbooks are the original social media. In the 1940s, young people were curating and captioning their photos in albums. They used these photo books to document and share their lives with the world. Around the …
Written by Amy Hammond We all have the plastic sleeves of 35mm negatives stuffed in the back of our photo envelopes, falling out of albums and loose in our photo boxes. Every time we see them we ask ourselves, “Do …
