7 Tips for editing and storing of old photos

- Old photos are fun to keep and every now and then to get above water. Here we give digitize some tips, repair and store your old photos so you can still enjoy very long time.

Many people have back a lot of old photos, sometimes generations. In some cases, these pictures damaged or discolored, or maybe you would like to view them without having to get heavy, dusty attic albums. Therefore it is a good idea to scan them in, repair and securely store, so that the originals can be secured.

Old photos are often dusty. Before you start scanning, it is a good idea to gently with a dry microfiber cloth to dust off so that the particles do not show up on the scans. Photos are also susceptible to fingerprints, so try as much as possible to stick to the edges.

Your scanner is probably dusty and perhaps greasy fingerprints, so make the plate clean and dry before you have a picture on the moors.

Most scanners have an option for scanning photos, so the entire photo is scanned without borders around it come to be in the result.

You're probably not going to scan again in your entire photo collection. So do it right the first by selecting the highest possible resolution, allowing you the highest possible quality image.

A high resolution is also important when you want to edit the photos. First rotate your photos if it wrong or are on their side.

Make sure the scanned image is displayed on your big screen and search across the entire surface for irregularities that you can update. If there are still see dust or damage, you can solve these problems with a photo editing program. This need not be an expensive suite, but make sure you choose a program that offers good repair options, such as GIMP (free).

GIMP is one of the most comprehensive free photo editing programs.

Zoom all the way out and see if the overall color of the picture seems okay. Old photos are in fact often discolored. In that case, you can correct the image often automatically, but often gives manually adjust a truer result.

When you're all done editing a photo, you must save it in the highest possible quality. This takes up more space, but if you have taken the trouble to scan your photo collection and editing, it is actually more important that you store it in a proper way. This is after all a repository of all your precious photos.

To a particular photo or set of photos quickly to find, it is convenient to organize your photos on to you the obvious way in a folder structure- for example, date, event, location, and so on.

Make sure you save your photos safe, so all was not in vain work. An external hard drive is a good option, but I guess also especially to use one or more cloud services as a hard drive can break, can be stolen, or may lose. It is the intention that your electronic records remain available, even if the original photos are lost.