Storing Important Family Photos

posted in Blog Postings | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Nowadays with digital cameras you will be storing your photos on your hard drives of your computer instead of in an old fashion photo album. But if you’re like most people in the world you still have photos from way before digital cameras where around and still have to find away to keep them safe and in the family for many more years to come. One thing that tends to destroy pictures is when picture are stored in a photo album and do not have any protection from the picture that shows up on the other side and then these pictures can become stuck together. To prevent this from happening you can go to a store that offers picture services and they will probably sell a paper called archival-quality paper and you can put the paper in between each picture to stop them from sticking. In between each group of pictures you should put a piece of card board or wood to help prevent warping of the pictures or photo albums while being stored away for a long period of time. When stacking photos albums on top of each other make sure you place the spine of the books opposite of each other, place one book facing the right and the other facing the left and so on. It is also a good ideal but not always possible to store all your photos in an air tight plastic wrapping to avoid all moisture build up that can cause damage to your priceless picture that you will never be able to get back.