Practical Ways to Preserve Your Digital Photos

Many of our memories are best preserved in our collection of pictures. Of course, it used to be very important to preserve not only the picture but also the negative so that other prints could be made. Most youth today don’t even know what a negative is! So what is the best way to preserve those digital memories?

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First, don’t be shy about taking plenty of pictures. Since it doesn’t cost any more to take extra pictures, take many more than you want to keep. I recently purchased a 4 gig card for a new camera, in anticipation of a trip to visit friends and relatives. When I got home, I still had room to take more than 10,000 shots!

Once you have collected a good number of pictures, don’t be afraid to delete the ones that aren’t up to standard, or that are duplicates of others. There is no point in keeping them all. On the other hand, don’t be shy about keeping one that is special, though it isn’t your best shot. It doesn’t cost any more to keep it.

Computer programs allow you to set up electronic photo albums and catalog the pictures in whatever way you want. Be sure to identify each picture clearly. I have many colored slides taken by my parents in Europe but I don’t how of what they are taken. If they had labeled them clearly, they would be much more useful.

At this point you may feel you are done with your project. But take a second to think about the fragility of your memories. One crash of your hard drive and you may lose everything! Or if you have them on floppies, the media may be obsolete and they are as good as erased! Also, floppies are vulnerable to magnetic fields.

CDs seemed, at first, to be indestructible. Since nothing needed to touch the surface, nothing wore out. However, scratches, breaks, heat damage could all destroy your memories.

Start with this suggestion: store all your pictures additionally in another place and on copies in other parts of your home. If you store them on a CD, for example, keep copies at another home, at work, or in a safety deposit box. Be sure to back up your hard drives and, if possible, subscribe to a service that backs up your data on a server somewhere else. And as media changes, be sure to also update your copies. If all your pictures were on 5 ¼ floppy disks, you might not ever be able to see them!

Today we have the ability to take massive numbers of pictures and to share them around the world without once printing them. Just don’t forget that, with the cut in photography development cost, be sure to invest something so that you keep those precious memories for the next generation.

Hopefully these tips will help you. But if you’re more interested in a professional handling your photography, consider the services of Del Haven Studio, an accomplished Virginia Beach Photographer. View their website portfolio for samples of their quality.