Downloading photos from social platforms won’t bring back your full-quality images or make them easy to organize. But if you lose the originals, saving social media archives might be the only way to salvage what’s left. This post wraps a …
When you upload photos to social media, they’re really just cheap copies of your favorite moments. Lots of our clients find out the hard way when organizing digital photos. Their online accounts are cluttered with junk, and the phones with …
We’ve been uploading photos to social media for the last 15 years. And for a while, we thought our family memories were in good hands. But social platforms actually make it much harder to organize and enjoy your pictures and …
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 same time, many women …
This 4th of July, we shine light on a client with deep ties to our country’s birth: the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution (CTDAR). Before you fire up the grill, let’s explore this recent project to remember what Independence …
Every new year, folks like you turn their fave photos from last year into a tangible keepsake like a photo book. It’s a great way to reflect on the past while diving into the future. Lots of our clients want …
We’ve saved the sounds of the past on a number of audio formats over the last century. Folks cleaning out their attics often find audio reels or vinyl records and don’t know what to do with them. Just like photos …
The stories are true – the oldest film can burst into flames under the right conditions. Nitrate film sparked the 1937 Fox vault fire and fueled the MGM vault blaze of 1967. These fires were fatal, destructive, and erased huge …
The vinyl record has made a huge comeback. From its warm sound to the thrill of digging in record stores for rare LPs, folks are still finding value in this once-fading format. We won’t tackle the ‘vinyl vs. digital’ debate …
Good labeling practices are key for photo organizing and computer file management. When your digital files are foldered and labeled correctly, it’s also easy to maintain that organization by adding new files into the right folders. This post covers a …
