‘Family Ties’ was a gift for siblings & parents in South Africa, using a number of old photos from our archives that I had collated and digitised during my first trip last year.
How I Digitised My Old Images
For so long I put off digitising photographs because I’m no technical expert, but I sorted a system that worked for me and accepted that it might not be a perfect job but imperfect was better than nothing done at all.
Curating A Collection of Old Photos to Keep
Getting to a small, manageable and orderly collection of photographs was, for me, liberating and it motivated me to work carefully through this next stage.
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How to Collate Your Old Photograph Stash
How many times have you tried to find a particular photo but, after hunting everywhere it still eludes you?
Finding the Good Photographs
Once I addressed overwhelm (here), the biggest hurdle in sorting the stash of old photographs was just getting started. My aim was to quickly reject as many unnecessary photographs as possible and get to a much smaller pile of keepers. Here’s my system:
The Forgotten Sort
Crouched in dark corners, forgotten in attics and cupboards, are boxes bursting with eyes and parts of limbs.
