Photo Achiving
Posted on: Oct 23, 10:56 PM
In your camera, on your computer, or online storage, all of these are ways to back up your digital images. Since the advent of digital cameras the number of images captured has increased exponentially, however the number of prints made from these digital images is very small. All digital images are files and can be lost at a keystroke.
Before the digital era, the primary way to save your images was in prints. If you were lucky you also had a negative. These methods of storage are chemical and unfortunately are also subject to loss from deterioration.
The chemistry in high-quality inkjet prints equals or exceeds the stability of silver images. Prints made using commercial inkjet technology can easily last 100 years. Images that are truly important to you should be made into a print and properly framed or stored using archival materials.
On your computer make a directory with a name like “keepers”, then browse through your thousands of images and make copies of the special ones to the “keepers” directory. Then make a copy of these images on portable media and take them somewhere and get prints made. You will not regret it.
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