https://www.picturesandstories.com/news daily 0.75 2025-03-04 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2025/3/3/rootstech-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/d610437f-2f81-4dd8-921f-047bc1b266d5/rt2025-slide-template.jpg Blog - RootsTech 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/e55ba359-7a93-4781-bb3d-c1cdb527539a/rt2025-slide-template+2.jpg Blog - RootsTech 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2024/2/28/speaking-at-rootstech-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1709161430466-FSPZKIZL6J878YPUFQCB/Presentation_Template_RT.jpg Blog - Speaking at RootsTech 2024 - Make it stand out Hope to see you at RootsTech this weekend at the Salt Palace. Here is info on the Thursday 2/29 class. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2020/4/15/novelize-your-family-history-story-live-sort-of-from-rootstech-2020 monthly 0.5 2020-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1587008410675-ZJ9NIE6Y4RL5BJBHXWXR/DSCF1439+crop.jpg Blog - "Novelize" Your Family History Story - Live (sort of) from RootsTech 2020 How do you get from dry genealogy facts to a compelling story? This presentation from RootsTech 2020 will hopefully inspire you as well as give you tools to write your ancestors’ stories. (Audio with slides) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1587007892767-1019QSQOJ5129WEW7O76/Slide1.PNG Blog - "Novelize" Your Family History Story - Live (sort of) from RootsTech 2020 What happened to Ethel Coe? Join me on a fascinating journey as I find one of my ancestors and write her story. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/how-to-use-the-pictures-and-stories-blog monthly 0.5 2020-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1582404849908-VTI9DKO9EX2G4X7KS71Q/P%26Sblog.jpg Blog - How to Get the Most Out of the Pictures and Stories Blog Search the Pictures and Stories blog for all kinds of articles about preserving your personal and family history! https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/9/23/join-us-and-save-at-rootstech-london monthly 0.5 2019-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1569264816957-UAAXJ54J02CHIFUG5Z1B/rootstech19-london-square.jpg Blog - Join Us (and Save) at RootsTech London RootsTech, the world’s biggest family history conference is coming to London next month! We’ve been invited to speak at RootsTech London and we thought we couldn’t be more excited. But now we are even more excited, because RootsTech gave us a special speaker’s discount code to share with you so you can join us! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1569267691628-KETOVESBLZOWDSESB6AJ/LondonBadges_440x220pxSpeaker.png Blog - Join Us (and Save) at RootsTech London https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/9/23/writing-about-your-life-are-you-stuck monthly 0.5 2019-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1569251766886-ZE332LUH7USZ3TLG27P1/AdobeStock_184273507+sm.jpg Blog - Writing About Your Life: Are You Stuck? It’s not the lack of time. It’s not clutter. You don’t have “writer’s block.” It’s probably that you just don’t know what to do next. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/3/25/how-to-tell-your-life-story-in-5-pages-or-less-rootstech-2019 monthly 0.5 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1553543333847-O7Z9GUNVL3PMKASDFNQV/RT+still.jpg Blog - How to Tell Your Life Story in 5 Pages or Less - RootsTech 2019 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/3/25/organizing-and-archiving-your-family-history-stuff monthly 0.5 2019-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1553540164038-H6A2IPBXS5DXP2WU9G0T/M2M.jpg Blog - Organizing and Archiving Your Family History Stuff https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/2/5/book-highlight-the-thing-about-remembering monthly 0.5 2019-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549389839911-69VE0NN2WHW5NT1UKJ1F/20180712_102111.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549391619008-516V18CFI6ZNU9DHQJKS/20180712_102122.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390011064-76CVM4TH1WVZZBOOBZ9Y/eveline+obit.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering Eveline Bruenger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390073972-MSLKZH0SZI9D55WM8IMY/20180712_102024.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering On the cover are Eveline and Fred, camping in Southern Utah shortly after they came to America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390174859-YYAUEL68MV6UILLSEV6Q/20180712_102317_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390193657-NI3GIFT34AH1VTU5G465/20180712_102409_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering Eveline drew pictures of her childhood room (also the kitchen) in Frankfurt after the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390301467-H8Q7M2FDAZ266K6KMH46/20180712_102527.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering One of the most romantic wedding photos I’ve ever seen. Each family member shows their joy with a different expression. Eveline looks up adoringly at Fiti, and he looks as though he is just about to kiss her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390428611-5D6NIINWABKLCPXYNKJO/20180712_102535.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering A closeup of this photo reveals shrapnel damage in the church, ten years after the last bomb fell on Frankfurt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549390759675-A64L4BF4KFT52BFRELIW/20180712_102815_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering Eveline and Fred hiked the Grand Canyon together every year from 1959 to 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549391260858-YYSWIW48HP4NRVEG0QHY/20180712_102740.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549391887517-X6881FXX8Z1T8O4SZBPW/20180712_102932.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering A chemist for 40 years, Eveline rose above the challenges of being a “woman scientist” in a man’s world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549391293464-NSTE2DCPF6WXOR2WCKM4/20180712_103017_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering Eveline in Nepal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549391325991-CL8A64WYYQ5ZGO4ZZXL4/20180712_103313_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: The Thing About Remembering Eveline continued hiking the Canyon after Fred’s death in 2007. Her last hike was 2017 at age 83, less than a year before her death from lung cancer. She wrote, “My being was transformed into a state of happiness and free of spirit. Fred was by my side as we walked, like in the old days, our continuous steady pace.” https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2019/2/4/one-surefire-way-to-choose-your-best-stories monthly 0.5 2019-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1549333050915-HZB424UCTP34MYM49C8H/typewriter-sm.jpg Blog - One Surefire Way to Choose Your Best Stories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/8/4/why-you-should-not-use-googles-photoscan-app-to-scan-your-old-photos monthly 0.5 2018-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501878952149-CUENI6IAW70HW2F7VTDW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Do you care about saving your old photos? Here's why you shouldn't digitize them using Google's PhotoScan app on your cell phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501879865244-0HRNILCXSHKBFGVJDBF3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501886311545-K5G8P8EKBR2XQE5RMSZT/flatbed+web.jpg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Canon flatbed scanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1522861074802-89XGQSHBR5KQO63TJIFC/james+camera+web.jpg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Using my phone's regular camera app in natural light https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501886213310-VSH6V9346RFJJOENAGU0/james+google+photo+scan.jpg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. On the same phone, using PhotoScan app https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501881116638-IIOIWNYDZ3JIEMPAV1QK/james+flatbed+crop.jpg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Scanned on Canon flatbed scanner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501880178092-8XI63NOZAU3V9DUDOSTI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. This is cropped from a photo I took with my phone's regular camera app. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501880526037-QBAX3DE7VXZCEF8SNNPW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. A closeup of the PhotoScan app's result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501881202673-UIYO49ZOEEQB2Q49D49A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Flatbed scan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501881233127-7R98E6GZQ0CV33ZFOL5Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Phone's regular camera app https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501881251418-6LL6EK7DKBO5Y5N4RR3Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Google PhotoScan app https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501886975338-WJFU24FB3VLF9HNHSZVW/flatbed+corr2.jpg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. On a flatbed scanner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1501886803548-QNK31FUR5PT3FEXV45R2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Google's PhotoScan App is a nightmare for your old photos. Here's why. Doesn't look too bad as a small screen image, but this PhotoScan image is a nightmare close up. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2018/4/4/how-to-scan-old-photos-with-your-smartphone monthly 0.5 2018-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531255035924-MAYXLV3M3QXGOCZOG88Z/7D_082.JPG Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? In a pinch, a phone with a high quality camera can make a fairly good "scan" of an old photo, no special apps needed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531257860665-AAUU8KSNL3V2NLO0TEML/2flashphotos.jpg Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? I was sincerely grateful to the person who posted these photos of my relatives, which I had never seen before, on Ancestry.com. I just wish they had read this post first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531255891311-BY2PIEQE9Z79JCHUW7YM/AdobeStock_39870692.jpeg Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? Are you scanning your whole collection of printed old family photos? Better to use a flatbed scanner with the right settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531257690158-TL6Z8HJRX0NZTBHMS2XY/7D_084.JPG Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? Here are the tips, in a nutshell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531261482283-182OC55KD5DPKA8M4YKQ/3phonescans.jpg Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1531262525041-WCTHB0D0AWNO1B6T4XO9/cropfinal.jpg Blog - Can I Use My Phone to Scan Old Photos? Here's my cropped final "scan." At this point I can clean it up in Photoshop if I wanted to, but at least I know I have plenty of high-quality pixels: enough to blow this photo up to print on a full page. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2018/7/4/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-pictures-and-stories-blog monthly 0.5 2020-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530744932467-CP91V7WXY0ZXM3X36GG8/getthemostoutofourblog2.jpg Blog - How to Get the Most Out of the Pictures and Stories Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530738461505-MLTZZG4CEWZSRQ1L5NII/getthemostoutofourblog2.jpg Blog - How to Get the Most Out of the Pictures and Stories Blog https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2018/7/4/book-highlight-truckin-with-cr-englands-eugene-england monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530730578649-4UCXV7P6MS7RAIT80QLX/20180216_140229.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England The autobiography of Eugene Knight England of C.R. England Trucking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732827655-7UAAGKJP41MK8DRZ9UH7/20180222_121606.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England Title page for "A Life Blessed." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732243470-KD4VJE99BEC77IC784MP/20180216_140312.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England Gene was born in 1919 in Plain City, Utah, population 600. Three other major trucking companies also got their start in Plain City: Swift Transportation, Pride Transport, and Knight Transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732318459-63IRMWHX9C0A3TPFZCH5/20180216_140336.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732517136-EHDNPR7Y4A4AG1YT79CJ/20180222_121026.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England For his service in the Battle of Okinawa, Gene was awarded a Bronze Star. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732580936-HGW12ER6ENMLZG8FS884/20180222_121112.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England Gene and his first wife, June, with a 1940 Kentworth truck. June passed away in 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732374694-UDTGRCBDT93TAKA1NZE3/20180216_140443.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England Gene's son Jeff England with his first truck. Jeff went on to found mega-trucking company Pride Transport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530732762487-EK9U6G3ZVE3B3R9YRHLA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England Gene with four of his sons, who now run C.R. England Trucking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1530733193850-MVL91ZLI9OX9FCRWDSXA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Truckin' with C.R. England's Eugene England https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2018/4/5/seven-deadly-sins-of-digitizing-photos-live-sort-of-from-rootstech monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1522938036899-B57DY7OUWCFMHPSKP0MK/7D_001.JPG Blog - Seven Deadly Sins of Digitizing Photos - Live (Sort of) from RootsTech https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1522939991527-W2O8A14KCD6OV9LBK8Q7/RT2018.jpg Blog - Seven Deadly Sins of Digitizing Photos - Live (Sort of) from RootsTech https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2018/2/22/the-power-of-listening-an-interview-with-humans-of-new-yorks-brandon-stanton monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1519341151534-U7CU97I098D9H340R4ZD/bstanton.jpg Blog - The Power of Listening: an Interview with Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton - Brandon Stanton     https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/3/30/book-highlight-a-childrens-book-tells-a-family-pioneer-story monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918973633-MOXZCJVZQ1KGSZ673140/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story A charming children's book of a family pioneer story, written and illustrated by a talented member of the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490919251696-47LOJF10K6XD7SMH5L8W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story An introduction features a photo of the children who heard the story at the feet of their grandfather, whom they called "Jampa." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490919332639-T6H2UQFPIIU6U5MQJS3S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490919429981-SXQEHGD33F2GM05E0L7A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story This painting of "Jampa" as a little boy with his father is used on the cover as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490919352800-7F8PK4597O8Z39I22JXE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story This touching image illustrates the hardships they faced on their immigrant journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490919393112-BCS5J2Y9YQS3HPZ7FVYT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Children's Book Tells a Family Pioneer Story https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/3/30/book-highlight-stories-collected-over-a-lifetime monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490917926406-DZNZ6OJ1I0ZHNIXJ1JK1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime This lovely book began as a stack of typewritten life stories collected over the years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918082364-6OZEQ88KDQCEK7SYQ7XC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918007890-FAU12OH2IRDCINXGA1BM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918115907-WZR4KMA1OLYWSJ32RC1O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime A placeholder ribbon comes in handy and looks classy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918155402-VIWRCRF0ILFMUKFSGH1B/IMG_3042.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime Young Mickey as a soldier in the Korean conflict. Is that a bow tied into his crew cut? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918219766-2RYLS7IKYISEYYGS86D0/IMG_3053.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime Mickey's mother died when he was quite young, and he writes with great warmth about the woman his father married seven years later. He writes about his stepmother, "It was great to have an advocate, and a fashionable one at that." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918461049-V0CE6LRB3UAW7KYVTI4D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime All grown up with a lovely wife of his own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918498376-MNDDFT9TETEQKQJ9U5L1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime A series of custom family trees concludes the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918538114-5UYUAMQF8WUMRHPHN13A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime A final tribute from Mike's children and grandchildren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490918591373-1RA0GSJ9QPCPW5MCPDPY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Stories Collected Over a Lifetime A simple, elegant stamped leather cover in burgundy red. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/3/30/book-highlight-spicing-up-a-genealogical-narrative-report monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490915107132-ISEBEB1FC0I3W0IZWBT7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report This family history book began with a (let's admit it, rather boring) "narrative report" automatically generated by a genealogy program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916346372-LUQS81EW42FZT5KM6XFA/IMG_3081.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report We began the book with a pictorial introduction to his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916188108-605OZMNZRM4MMHZCDQXK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report A custom-designed picture pedigree makes it easy to see how everyone is related. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916365364-P588PRXTU93XR3UU5V1L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report Although the generated narrative (first paragraph) is in the form of sentences, it isn't poetry. However, adding obituary text and photos gave a more interesting picture of the ancestor's life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916529869-OR708BCNZRP0LAJHN8DY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report The center section of the book contains a family timeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916580044-FXOOUU30WX2NO0RNIYFP/IMG_3094.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report Steve centered the book around his grandparents (pictured on the cover), who were grocers in Iowa. Fortunately, he had a lot of photographs and stories about his grandparents that made them come to life. We used a brown paper grocery bag as the background texture in this section of the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916755707-8O9MWP49ZGW96KWN5WUY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report He commissioned charming sketches of the Koellner grocery stores and residences from a local artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916816209-3J52NO8O3UWGJCZ7FGFY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report The final section of the book is about the current generations of the Koellner family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490916887960-SEC2C0P9LJ6PPQOU7FQQ/20161104_133340.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Spicing Up a Genealogical Narrative Report Designing the cover is usually the last step before publication. For this cover, we used the only extant photo of them as a couple, placing it in front of a photo of their first home. A bit of red gives some oomph to the black and white photographs. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/4/5/using-dropbox-to-collaborate-on-a-family-history-project monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491434791109-NKEASGZKRP9V7X3UWS0P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project Dropbox is one way to work collaboratively on a family history project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491438801557-2ZCB6IFLFSIUSCNB4G90/01-share.PNG Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491438905086-QH4MIS1PZWW8OEO4SHHS/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491439040967-YTPDPUFIO1KXF66BDEA8/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491439225410-LA59WGD3LDMQY9HTAZ03/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491439587137-2XV88GN5XWABNKPLM94J/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491440521244-427PQOVK1TZ4Y2P166RE/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491440384104-2UHB64E3WEPTNNVAH31J/07A-sign+in+without+dropbox+account.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491440676547-R8VASTVED0EBQ8Q2PCIB/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491440820726-HK2DCHCD2S9YW8399JY8/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491440936125-JH399JP8XUHLAM43WZEB/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491441084428-5ME9VZAR9EP4XTEV9EBM/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491441233266-VLHUEHOMFQHF82F17ABZ/12-shows+comment.PNG Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491441323249-KH5763TIJYRAREZVD2JE/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491441563852-V8MZK92P6KHPB7O5OJ7L/14-next+page.PNG Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491441837321-15MPLBOFXN2ZPA8EUIJ6/15-reply+comment.PNG Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491442003336-7SKG0EMEAIGTF7WDRGQ3/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491450152091-V6ADVXDJEWUCM7Y2XUDT/image-asset.png Blog - Use Dropbox to Collaborate on a Family History Book or Project https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/4/5/upcoming-classes-in-family-history-and-personal-history monthly 0.5 2017-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1491406143282-GLIA1W4TZE947BNNP3KI/personalhistoryclass.jpg Blog - Upcoming Classes in Family History and Personal History https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/3/30/book-highlight-a-frank-and-forthright-personal-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913359500-998U32DYB36FMMN2E157/20170104_105443.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History A personal history doesn't have to been long or comprehensive. In this book, our client is refreshingly honest about some of his most meaningful experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913421916-DJBFV9BZBKHBYYT2H4ZZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913598828-W3AXY1Y03KOIPKOTCHG3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913559373-5MULSH6QWSGCX7D8DH5O/20170104_105728.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913478431-AFR1AUZ9NR6S4JXNUFOP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913508004-HL0GPUN9G6KLRYCV4VER/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490913523137-4BKMWDXGQT3UFXRRRBYA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Frank and Forthright Personal History https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/3/30/book-highlight-an-oversize-coffee-table-personal-history-art-book monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490909309339-4P3G4RELJG5K1FI2FRWG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Worthy of the finest coffee table, this art book is also a comprehensive personal history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490912174620-JMM0DSNG8CNUOLCO2C08/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Gordon's daughter This mom "caught" her children studying their grandfather's history book in a quiet moment. Made my day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911513189-6GVGHR2IUPJHMBSRYLSI/IMG_3123.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Although he ended up in real estate development, Gordon started his career in broadcasting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911535056-4TM9W111BZN1ALNLWZ7N/IMG_3107.JPG Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Great family photo of his grandparents, proudly displaying their home in Sweden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911550473-5BV34PN14CR1NW9R8PCW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Adding some historical background to a personal history is always a good idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911591231-QRLH8GW110I6FXISZ8Q4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911638568-UGEJR06RJ4C6HJ5XHMQV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911663532-C4G8RC068ZQWWU6NCWO6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book Love the spiffy 1958 VW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911700747-03FQL48N037JLPHLN207/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911714137-AZPL98LYJ90SQ4B6PBMK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book The family found their ancestral homestead in Sweden just as this rainbow appeared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911761095-Q42Q372P8GUILKMR2ZGG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911773659-KA87IV1AYTVDJRWE5ZDT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1490911786611-DER6WTNLYRNC9NRXPAHV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: An Oversize Coffee-Table Personal History Art Book https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/2/21/we-are-all-connected-a-multicultural-experience-at-rootstech-2017 monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487709245230-BV975Q64NSCXWDS070YO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 Burundi Drummers cruise the Expo Hall during African Heritage Day at RootsTech. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487711509805-XL4KPZ1RLX9GFWAGH09O/IMG_0614.JPG Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 Our Pictures and Stories book gallery in the distance, viewed from the Coaches' Corner at RootsTech. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487710744287-XBE0UA9C62DCMQV57IDF/Burton3.jpg Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 LeVar Burton's moving keynote address at RootsTech. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487710199650-UUFKZZVC9A6418H9P32L/image-asset.png Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte in Roots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487710297428-YRB4OO2CX2068KKCGG6P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 LeVar Burton gets emotional when presented with a gift of his family's genealogical research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487710255168-ROKUJPJGB8U7S6CKTYBG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - We Are All Connected: A Multicultural Experience at RootsTech 2017 Panel discussion with Melvin Collier, Sherri Camp, Kenyatta Berry, and Nkoyo Iyamba. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1487711945170-NCBZMQWM6BHYL2VRAIDA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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RootsTech 2017 takes place February 8-11 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2017/1/3/book-highlight-a-military-family-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1483559106027-S7W5VLK5RMR0C3PRP6T2/20170103_161207.jpg Blog - Book Highlight - A Military Family History A stunning coffee-table book that tells the story of a multi-generational military family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1483557765788-C6HUR3VLUJP3WYGZ2E7N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight - A Military Family History The opening chapter, which tells the story of how Rip and Bettye Young met and married while Rip was a cadet at West Point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1483557899718-2F3UETNHX5UIHE3P9RL0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight - A Military Family History A young Bettye Jean Bean, c. 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1483559691991-HVXEGHQRYDSX2KOAFF2S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight - A Military Family History Bettye today, seeing the finished product for the first time. She is holding the 10" square book that was given to family members. 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The original 10 MB file is on the left; the compressed 4 MB file in Google Photos is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1478300023630-4AMS3PZEDZOTX37WI8VP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Should I Use Google Photos to Store My Photos? Here's the same photo zoomed in 200%. 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Without care and pruning, you could lose the whole "tree." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1469810569073-EHFEPRBP0GYMA2R1KWUH/too+much+family+history+stuff Blog - Apricots and Ancestors: 3 Steps to "Prune" Your Family History Stuff Please don't let this be the legacy you leave your children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1469810654245-288II3IL198YTQXUICCO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Apricots and Ancestors: 3 Steps to "Prune" Your Family History Stuff A digital archive book with storage media. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/4/9/pictures-and-stories-to-be-featured-on-ksls-speaking-on-business monthly 0.5 2016-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1460237467190-G1QENXW3EONELOHR92AO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures and Stories to be Featured on KSL's "Speaking on Business" https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/4/9/choosing-photographs-advice-from-william-morris monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1460220002217-C6V2FBALMJZSD14NS2JN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing Photographs: Advice from William Morris How to choose which photos to keep? "William Morris" your photo collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1460224766719-SS7AWPLBTPHRRY5P0TAY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing Photographs: Advice from William Morris This photo has enormous genealogical value as it is the only photo taken of this family all together. Because we can identify each person by their relative age and relationship, we used this photo as a reference to identify other individual photos in the collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1460225615238-CU46PUXK5R4D5Z2D59MA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing Photographs: Advice from William Morris This is the only photo I have of my grandmother (left) with her family. It's not in good shape but it shows the relationship and personality of each. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1460225015678-M82PY1JTCQLUR271BEYM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing Photographs: Advice from William Morris This photo is underexposed, out of focus and my six-year-old attempt at looking glamorous is borderline bizarre! But I love it because it triggers so many memories for me. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/3/10/why-i-am-addic monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457667281094-7ZFWLSA3AL2ZE0AECAS9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why I Am Addicted to Family History Armstrong graveyard in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457668676134-64MKIDJK1BY2FSHMD994/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why I Am Addicted to Family History The Armstrong grave in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania; top, 2001. Bottom, 2016. The stones have deteriorated badly and are nearly illegible now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457668824199-KLE2I94QFF03O4YBF939/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why I Am Addicted to Family History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457669051775-X4C5NVM1CQLDYVTW2ZJ8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why I Am Addicted to Family History Alice Crawford Armstrong, my 4th-great-grandmother and ancestral mentor. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/3/8/shotbox- monthly 0.5 2018-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457479142409-I7QW3DJ3TMKG4BHQ1KO2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Shotbox - a new way of digitizing photos and family memorabilia using the camera on your smart phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457474434395-45J1SS55VMEK7NXYZQFD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? These images of my great-something-grands, found on FamilySearch, show how using a cell phone as a scanner can go terribly wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457480175726-1I0A124B0MZ3O6S2SEHW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Left, camera lens is on the same level as the photo. Right, camera lens is tilted at a different angle than the photo, causing the edges to distort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457474746992-NGOUIDXUYTYI9Q8IBCJP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Placing the phone camera on the top of the Shotbox keeps the camera lens perfectly level with the photo or object in the box, eliminating distortion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457483246794-99IR38FGEK95BZVUARSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Uneven window light on the left creates hard shadows and light/dark areas. The same photo, right, inside the Shotbox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457481530680-3PHT4IV64KTRIB1H6PHE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? You can see two bright strips of reflected light where the light bulbs reflect off the shiny surface of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457482160316-HLLCBSQNETFN1EUAOSND/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Putting the Shotbox in front of a large window, with the lights OFF, diffused the window light enough to get an evenly-lit shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457482616764-EZNHOAE0WMF4HAO4E41M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? The left image was with window light only; I just put the photo on the floor in front of the window and snapped the photo. On the right is the photo that was inside the Shotbox using only the window light. The white "fog" (glare from the window) was eliminated by the Shotbox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457483992317-PCUQL2KLQBTFR3KXXDTZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? You can see where the curled edges of the photo won't lay flat, causing distortion at the corners. How did I fix it? I didn't even have to use Photoshop. Again, a low-tech solution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457484256158-QG6JH1MAHXS1WP913KDQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? An old steel baking pan, and a few tiny supermagnets (easy to touch out later) to the rescue! (That pan has baked decades of love in the kitchen.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457484835914-T9N9YMOJGWVWW8M6EUKG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? Three flat but dimensional objects with varying degrees of reflection, the kind that won't fit on a scanner, in the Shotbox. The painting had no glass. The oval frame was covered in glass but you can only see some slight reflections on the frame. The glass on the shadowbox, right, shows a little reflection on each side but not enough to be especially bothersome. These were all shot from the top, with the objects laying flat on the bottom of the box. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457485651407-O7AGLSGL0H69XND946XJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? The Shotbox has a nifty "Sideshot" attachment that allows you to shoot objects from the front, at any angle. You can angle the attachment so that it levels with the plane of your object. The attachment isn't super sturdy, so if your phone is large like my Galaxy Note, you might want to use your hand to steady it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457485770344-VNEO7TCMFXL73XDBZB41/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? This pottery looks stunning with perfectly even lighting and soft shadows. (There is a little bit of banding in the background, which I found out from the Shotbox website is caused from having the adjustable light too dim, so my cell phone camera can't catch up. When I turned up the light, the banding disappeared.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457485825519-6EAORWWR2SGTU5OFERRS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? This glass-framed photo was a little more problematic. I got better results with this one shooting it flat on the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457486082788-6W70CA38NDX6VYI45EYS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? The deluxe kit comes with four different seamless back-to-bottom backdrops and a really cool neoprene carry bag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1457486169772-QTKNPJII8E0BXSA34YKV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Shotbox - A New Way to Digitize Your Family History Photos? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/2/12/short-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1455319108591-RRT3JMDF3PQD29QGJGKY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Short Stories A collection of short stories is all you need to create a highly readable account of your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1455319362921-VAS5XI6APNG47IZYLNPW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Short Stories A dramatic one-page story about a family trip speaks volumes in this personal history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1455319148058-OK3BUGWPNMT802RUCI3G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Short Stories This farm history is arranged by theme, rather than chronology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1455319512233-SW08RWSX3QYI5P9YRHIX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Short Stories This client's book contains short stories with intriguing names like "Bowling in Reno," The Japanese Buffalo Hunter," and "Aliens and Spaceships." No one who picks up this book can put it down without reading at least a story or two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1455319270552-UYK9HYTZU8CYRR877EFT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Short Stories "500 Miles on a Mule and a Case of Dynamite" is an account of a boy's summers working on a ranch. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/2/5/book-highlight-living-joyfully monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454734600641-4HF8JWDIY9ZJPBNU9HIE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully This life history book has a shocking pink cover and a bubbly personality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454734857761-GQRFAVY76MBWGSO757NZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully This autobiography is all about living joyfully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454734753657-28255CILC5GFEX0EFZ80/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully Bubbles and intense color celebrate her "bubbly" personality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454734945348-NL8WRVHEV7ACHSFSUNZA/20160205_191600.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully What she did for fun as a teenager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735043754-59E298WJ9XNQGNWWCYM3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735090497-C1N31DP8L5ZGFJUZCHSK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735216985-9D042P2QY6HVWCMHO9YW/20160205_191945.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully A cheerful descendancy chart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735139162-J2GR03NQKO5IKOYMSVTC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735272406-1Z99341F8ZVW3UC4T0ZX/20160205_191906.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454735431562-IMD45NR136JXOTJ4AM7K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Living Joyfully Stack 'o books at the printer, waiting to be delivered! https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/2/1/two-days-to-rootstech-2016 monthly 0.5 2016-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454359146786-D6BSDPQCDAN2XLZSSZ2Z/bigbook.jpg Blog - Two Days to RootsTech 2016 Look for this giant red book in the Expo Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454357474124-GC2DWD9SSX4N4QZBS43V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Two Days to RootsTech 2016 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/1/28/book-highlight-she-did-this-one-herself monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454031915911-78VK322CWETBRO81S93Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: She Did This One Herself A lovely book that our client created about her mother-in-law, using our book "How to Save Your Life, One Chapter at a Time" as a guide. We love the clever title, "No Cross Words," portrayed in crossword-puzzle style! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454032152278-APXB8PA0R10AY58IK1X4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: She Did This One Herself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1454032175708-TNPEQ17RZDH46K8TQR4Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: She Did This One Herself https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/1/26/parts-of-a-book-front-and-back-matter monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1453868833376-NVY90BSYJMOHNC6QWUTZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Parts of a Book: Front and Back Matter If you are self-publishing a book, here's a handy guide to what parts go where. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1453868408897-Y81PLXTOADD1ZUC6YI0C/IMG_0229.jpg Blog - Parts of a Book: Front and Back Matter Table of contents. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2016/1/25/join-our-daily-writing-challenge monthly 0.5 2016-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1453737740757-5D43M67VNNC3A4WRE0U4/challenge-art-red.jpg Blog - Join Our Daily Writing Challenge This year, write a memoir, autobiography, or personal history in just 15 minutes a day. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/12/16/book-highlight-adding-a-digital-archive-to-a-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450285671631-UFD6PP1E1TYM3DS01236/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book Adding digital media to a printed book covers all the bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450286533286-YXGG3J3M306DGEPHOTK9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book A custom bookmark has a 32 GB flash drive attached that has digital media related to the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450286580666-P0NWB7ZA0QXVRXXKO3XO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book The back of the book has a DVD sleeve so that this media can stay with the book at all times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450286877054-S3YF2EE43UOT155YX2LP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450286892689-1T1XFL11NK61QM5L0QVL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book A sidebar (right) is one way to add additional historical or explanatory background information that is aside from the main narrative. These few paragraphs about the ship on which Don sailed are set aside in a decorative box with a different typeface to separate it from the rest of the text. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450287034290-YSFQYHOGEIQZFY85B98U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450287118730-SPGPBAL5K3KKNCQB1783/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1450287148238-I06LN95G7Q3LNMJI17ER/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Adding a Digital Archive to a Life Story Book A full-bleed family photo graces the back cover. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/12/7/when-is-the-best-time-to-write-your-life-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449530301692-K3U22KGIPQ76KMB7L53O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - When is the Best Time to Write Your Life Stories? Am I too young to write a life history? Too old? Just right? (Image: The Graphics Fairy) https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/12/7/book-highlight-turning-a-dry-genealogical-report-into-a-coffee-table-stunner monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449516108306-Z0JHDY3K2QEZTYN00L69/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner This 12 x 12" coffee table book started out as a plain old research document. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449516993656-7CPJWDH2OB2C6B1K3LCG/GC_001.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner The cover image was an original painting by an ancestor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517074083-3GHXFF8H4CTJJQ9Z3I23/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner A preface, written by our client about her research journey, was added to the beginning of the book along with a family photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517127065-XZ6POWYLPD9UH8LM57DX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner We added a number of beautiful old maps to complement the data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517172854-I94T9LFXX1N21A8U1D7D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner Some genealogical documents are more visually interesting than others...this one was quite beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517223124-BJ2WBZUHSSPDEIEXAZFJ/GC_008.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner We included a number of old paintings (in the public domain) that depicted what life was like in the referenced time and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517316212-B84AK5SXM4C7MC9KYVYE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner Dates and facts were put into attractive tables for easier reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517382246-59RO4IA7NCADA9BT5XYO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner These paintings depict the expulsion of French Canadians from northern Canada (modern-day New Brunswick & Nova Scotia) in the mid-eighteenth century. It was a fascinating history and one that was, fortunately for the book, well-documented in art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449517675576-KW1FCFH0IG5ODJ2T5VMY/GC_011.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Turning a Dry Genealogical Report into a Coffee-Table Stunner Our client's ancestor, "Tante Blanche," is honored among Acadians for her heroic deeds during a famine of 1797. There is a museum dedicated to her in Maine. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/12/7/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-digitizing-photos monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449511675756-PXTDF4J44LZ5S3U1L4RW/2+girls.jpg Blog - Five Things You Need to Know About Digitizing Photos Do you want to digitize your photos so that you can share them and hand them down to future generations? Follow these tips to create a quality digital archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449512254256-T63Q9ZPZUSOJDFXT55SI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Five Things You Need to Know About Digitizing Photos Using anything less than a maximum quality JPEG is like smashing a loaf of bread. It may fit into a smaller bag (i.e. load fast on a website) but the quality will suffer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449512886561-WO8USH2AWLHYN93EPA5Q/lost-soul.jpg Blog - Five Things You Need to Know About Digitizing Photos "With all my love, ???" You may know who this person is, but if you don't identify her, will anyone know her in fifty years? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449513203404-CCOOZOYR5J7AQG5OOOI4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Five Things You Need to Know About Digitizing Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1449513220454-QC9O47PP1K3AVSA54XSA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Five Things You Need to Know About Digitizing Photos https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/11/12/the-heart-vs-the-chart-the-importance-of-family-stories-in-genealogical-research monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447365485180-4KTNT7ZZSGB5T2CD8W76/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Heart vs. the Chart - an Interview with FamilySearch CEO Stephen Rockwood Stephen Rockwood, CEO of FamilySearch International, talks with us about the importance of family stories in genealogical research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447365675119-Q56Z2SU1QOBY05L5WS3P/stephen+rockwood+with+joanne+milner+and+alison+taylor.jpg Blog - The Heart vs. the Chart - an Interview with FamilySearch CEO Stephen Rockwood Stephen Rockwood with me and our associate Joanne Milner, left. (Tom was behind the camera.) Rockwood's father, whose portrait is on the wall, left, was the inspiration for his passion for family history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447366299900-TAK73UEGYUS1T08PFZ4T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Heart vs. the Chart - an Interview with FamilySearch CEO Stephen Rockwood The family storytelling process can be a bridge between generations. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/11/11/honoring-veterans monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447272132076-FYWDPH9TZ5JMV410J8HT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Honoring Veterans and Their Stories A chilly morning walk in the cemetery to think about those who served. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447285397392-6DU3OMJP44K4BQ0T0D5O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Honoring Veterans and Their Stories Christian, Jew, and the unaffiliated lie side by side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1447285783864-OK64KH0WSND034323F7Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Honoring Veterans and Their Stories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/10/13/ten-ways-to-celebrate-family-history-month monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1444771851476-ZY47JS76TUD5W4RNTB49/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Ways to Celebrate Family History Month It's October. Do you know where your memories are? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/9/25/the-one-hour-memoir-a-rebuttal monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1444766697379-XXW0M3ZXMA8A123SUA6H/image-asset.png Blog - Writing a One-Hour Life History? There's a Better Way https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/9/17/using-google-image-search-to-find-high-res-public-domain-images-for-your-book monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443215472429-OGX4F08A16BV9HEZJPHG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Personal History. This is a public domain NASA photo of my ancestor, Neil Armstrong, downloaded from Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443219867446-ZMO18I5L5XPJ8FKI73PE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Random Google image search will bring up a lot of images and very little other information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443220228493-IL79KEUI1DX40YBQ6Y7W/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Choosing the "Size" option in the Search Tools will only show you larger images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443220827328-1WOS7E4CLSSQUPTM1SRL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Choosing the "Usage Rights" tab will bring up this pulldown menu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443221011487-DQA5GO97PEPZ64MI1QYL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Choosing the "Show Sizes" tool will give you pixel dimensions of the photos available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443223986084-CA4RNWPSAU07W2JQMWIF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1443223263918-VEYQC0PSS0FMCLRD4O5A/DisneyTicketBook_wbelf.jpg Blog - Using Google Image Search to Find High-Res Public Domain Images for Your Book Remember these? E ticket rides were the best. 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Please accept my belated apologies for my 8th great uncle's deeds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1432748372063-1LC7W1X7OQJ6767JQS8R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Easy and Fun Way to Find Your Famous Relatives Massasoit, my 11th great-grandfather. I totally inherited his nose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1432748986261-120DO3YDOQ6YMD3M304F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - An Easy and Fun Way to Find Your Famous Relatives Relative Finder is easy to use. 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Interviewing yourself is a very effective way of gathering material for a life history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1432301102313-RQSHVNSDFZ0UTBY09CFS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History Here I am at the Riverton Family Search Center, recording a few stories on video. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1432302012012-SJ8I8GPL39RQ9H5SNJPL/timeline.jpg Blog - How to Interview Yourself for a Personal History It's always a good idea to keep story ideas on a life timeline. 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This is a story about a great-uncle who gave his life for others during World War II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431659222266-VQ5LU2I4ZTVHJGEWEI6P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: Family Stories of Faith This spread shows how memorabilia can be photographed and added as a graphic element. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431659234814-HII3Y4W1YM5GPWLPOR4P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: Family Stories of Faith https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/5/14/the-busy-persons-guide-to-writing-a-memoir monthly 0.5 2015-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431653423785-BR9YBRVZDRBTHFT2Z501/busy+woman+writing+memoir Blog - The Busy Person's Guide to Writing a Memoir Too busy to write? Think again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431655647098-C70JVY59G9IVURMIY2GQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Busy Person's Guide to Writing a Memoir Jerry totally got the concept of "one story at a time." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431656149517-25RUH2UHT8XB7EGAKM5I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Busy Person's Guide to Writing a Memoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431656608680-Y6KB3I9BQ0JH9IL35RQV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Busy Person's Guide to Writing a Memoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1431658058002-DXPK5ND6KL4ZQBPJZ6AV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Busy Person's Guide to Writing a Memoir Record some life stories on that drive to Alaska. It'll be a lot more fun than counting the moose. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/5/1/a-dozen-unusual-questions-to-ask-your-mom monthly 0.5 2015-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1430496286758-RD0MXHSLA1KLTEOPEXLB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Dozen Unusual Questions to Ask Your Mom Do you wish you knew more about the woman who gave birth to you? Here are a dozen interview questions that may enlighten you. 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As a caption, it's not very helpful, especially out of context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429221935473-ONWRRRVJD8GMI4TJGQUN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption Not a good caption: "Unidentified woman and some guy, maybe her husband." (I won't even call your attention to the typo in the photo attribution or the lack of a comma after "husband.") I blacked out the faces just in case these people want to remain unidentified, or if it isn't her husband after all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429223165066-YNJXL7B6TBF9P0N760NC/image-asset.png Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption This is the first photo in the book, so the caption contains the full name and date to introduce the subject. Subsequent photos of the subject in the book use only his first name, since the book is about him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429223183153-PWP3YG94FBBKTKPQD6CO/image-asset.png Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption This caption imparts information in a humorous way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429220133027-J5VVDY4DCTU91BZ1F9P1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption "Eventually she forgave me." Cryptic, but effective at drawing the reader into the story to find out more. The subjects of the photo are also the subjects of the book, so identifying them in this case seems redundant. Additional details are in the adjacent story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429222872560-FU0K54V7TNDRINK3INI6/image-asset.png Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption The above font has a nice old-fashioned feel, but it is a little too fussy for a small-print caption. Save fancy fonts for title pages and short pieces of text. But make sure the caption type doesn't blend in too much with the type in the main narrative, or it could get confusing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1429221778371-9AGNPBN0CGS57LFRVB0F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Write the Perfect Photo Caption   The above caption uses a very different typeface and color to differentiate it from the main body text. 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The Mental Health Benefits of Writing a Memoir Writing a memoir can improve your mental health, even if you aren't writing it at the beach. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/27/book-highlight-mini-memoir-for-the-grandkids monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427464775274-2GBUJSZIS4BQJL4C8JRV/IMG_6532.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids Share stories from your childhood with your grandchildren in a custom picture book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427464878136-UFFWJX5QMJS5FODPMAI1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427464901566-JA62U2QEHM809L4RE7WY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427464919627-1F7JKDF2F9HDDP6BOHNH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427464938363-F7CY5JSYOMUDD0KCTSV9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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"When Grandpa was a Boy." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465068961-Q3ZPIVQ4BFGSPXKTJ0XI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465089426-TGDS4G5M3IO3QOTTHG6U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465114032-VB141HCBGMBEHR99DOFH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465134246-HN64P36V6B380QO0E68H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465161838-5CXYAKKREYKEL7D1H0NH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427465180657-2NBKLDUE78RGEMWKVUTM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Mini-memoir for the Grandkids https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/21/curating-and-digitizing-your-family-history-assets monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426971435515-HXC9WBT4PH6DG313FFHZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Curating and Digitizing Your Family History Assets Curating and Digitizing Your Family HIstory Assets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427128391323-YH89KXP88CTPZWAN0IGL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Curating and Digitizing Your Family History Assets Here is an example of an archive product we did for a client. Thousands of photos and documents were digitally preserved in a book and accompanying archival storage media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1427128487364-TT3M3VWR4TUW2ADOUJLD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Curating and Digitizing Your Family History Assets The book contains thumbnails and captions for each item in the collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426971788609-WHBW6248015GYKT7WWU5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Curating and Digitizing Your Family History Assets https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/21/link-20-reasons-why-you-should-write-your-family-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426967287455-HMRXRP8ZG2O12DCB4XCW/art_0000039A.jpg Blog - Link: 20 Reasons Why You Should Write Your Family History 20 Reasons to Write Your Family History https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/18/book-highlight-cadet-nurse-fighter-pilot monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426699931117-W7V03RDL55ZA3415D7ST/cadet2.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot: Our Parents in World War II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700264430-DNI9U3HU27UA0KD7Z9DS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot Wendell Taylor crashed his plane while flying over China and lived to tell the tale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700243512-4IN2HOZFNKT81OX1GZNQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700573252-70V903X0CPN8E5W0QOPK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700367412-A0050I9WZCPW9LK657PO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700609040-A4V77YI80ESXCM6T6BRI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700391000-4JQN49MZVDUOTOKMMGZ1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426700636566-T5UHNU3LDIFGQUN1W38M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: Cadet Nurse & Fighter Pilot https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/18/making-a-family-story-cookbook monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426691755653-KEVRF4MRYVH37XBNGTX5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Was spam jello your favorite comfort food? 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But we all have some tasty stories to tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426697624134-SRC95B95NXP6WEJUHMMY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Use a timeline chart or large sheet of paper to create a timeline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426697741038-EDAVZQAIWPEHRF36ELDM/image-asset.png Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook A notebook with a page for each year or life division works too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426697856081-9WZBHLZR88KWY97MULYA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Photo by Cristie Mabey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426697914887-2BZ37E789Z8WXLA9KK1X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426697989204-Z5A7OPEB5YPK55XNKXZU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426698632806-EVPND77K9KCSOW434BKU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426698161335-MAND6PBGOURIZSQUHBR8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Here's an example of how I took a family story and added photos and a recipe of my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426698302229-NR12U1TY115I5AQLJN2I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Here's a great example of a cookbook done using Shutterfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426698323881-PH9GRFBSVN4LRL49SCBJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Family Story Cookbook Lindsay at The Accidental Wallflower did a beautiful job combining photos and recipes to create her custom cookbook. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/12/book-highlight-a-modern-classic monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426178027883-Y1TVKDISJGM57Q42WROF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic   Merline Leaming, A Modern Classic is the story of one of the West's premiere interior designers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426178242751-OZYC0IF26BOASL8SBUU5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184218551-ODCMYUYQSVYX7GA29Q1K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic Merline was often seen zipping around SLC in a snappy Karmann Ghia Volkswagen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184271402-UV9SZZEN0TFAEII4J9KQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184245315-88E7BORSTJ7IY2IX1TCE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184308563-BW0LHE4XXO4ZIEZN67WU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184335813-6XQ19G6SR5DSE5KYPB7M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184864805-OMETUI2YWIJQISE6P5I5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184796240-BYJWXNPGAGO9D2X4UUIH/IMG_6784.jpg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184571324-AIF7YOGO78TOGCGUTJ9G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426184617833-HQWI575ZGH4GGZICJ1WT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Highlight: A Modern Classic https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/10/what-adult-children-want-to-know-about-their-parents monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1426015479692-0TGXZU48R5P7A9LFLWJJ/what+adult+children+want+to+know+about+their+parents.jpg Blog - What Adult Children Want to Know About Their Parents https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/3/2/how-to-tell-the-ten-best-stories-of-your-life monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1425321884156-GJJY6VL2PDC09KLFW93Y/how+to+tell+the+ten+best+stories Blog - How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1425322756146-XKRZNSF5UOPYUO4H3HOZ/alison+rootstech+2015.jpg Blog - How to Tell the Ten Best Stories of Your Life Click on the photo to start the video. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/2/12/a-life-story-triage-exercise monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1423802605327-Q6R68ZM1UURHWXVA2V5L/how+to+tell+the+ten+best+stories+of+your+life Blog - A Life Story "Triage" Exercise A life story "triage" exercise - how to tell the best ten stories of your life. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2015/2/1/book-highlight-his-and-hers-histories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828575236-HQP1E2JPBX3U15MWIPDC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories He said, she said: "His-and-hers" personal history books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828403238-RPK16XT2CVBEFR1FRAPO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories These his and hers personal histories are made to "match" and to fit nicely together on a shelf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828487245-NYVQIXUAY6R3TF53PDFQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories This book tells the history of a married couple in one large volume. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828807038-GZ2ZDGQAEBKX4202NPH5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories A simple navy blue leather cover with gold stamping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828829261-54D6HPJ3RA4FKA7GCN8H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828856033-69HHY5XKOH4HY4LJFILQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828883357-L848ORJQJV7FN8TYU12Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828904162-DXZ7UXO969UWLMVTK7PX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829150217-VANUR3ET7WB2M593D9FR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829018390-KKUZBCY2FANG53TWKJ1M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829942076-BQRT4EDU7TGSKHEUVQAM/IMG_6577.jpg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829261648-MWNHUC0BASIM7SG0KU3A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829081281-N2O0E511PSIU7BGH6DRU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422828980738-6X3I64YXECPB1PEWMIBQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1422829347186-TIRKB7NSHENJYJAPLGS8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: His-and-Hers Histories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/11/17/book-highlight-a-mothers-story monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267358324-G44MNES3QRW03VGZ8H57/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267747716-0KI1M0H9RLP3NWTKXXME/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267545521-2CDNSSNLZNFSFO10JOPW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267724791-9MLCBY9PMLF54PY1CRKX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267889799-76QKUYTWN12O55P8TI4F/IMG_6097.jpg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416267945144-NUZHJNIGO0WJJYA2QQUK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book highlight: A Mother's Story https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/11/17/autobiography-memoir-personal-history-whats-the-diff monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416260553661-RLOUJ7ZGR2UU9NO3465Q/Dollarphotoclub_68375004.jpg Blog - Autobiography, Memoir, Personal History - What's the Diff? And Does It Matter? Autobiography, Memoir, Personal History - What's the difference? And does it matter? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1416261863930-23IHN8A52KGDW86L5BKH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Autobiography, Memoir, Personal History - What's the Diff? And Does It Matter? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/11/10/gathering-stories-at-family-gatherings monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1415638372393-LW8AJM4PUXRVXDKT3UF6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gathering Stories at Family Gatherings https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/29/lost-and-found-do-you-know-where-your-relatives-are monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414600655312-YIGJPLUKIZ6UOWG0OGQ1/%22Edgar%27s+Playground%22+by+Alison+Armstrong+Taylor Blog - Lost and Found: Do You Know Where Your Relatives Are? "Edgar's Playground" by Alison Armstrong Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414597050066-4V1LKIAGPGVMQ6D3ZSE6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lost and Found: Do You Know Where Your Relatives Are? The mysterious Harry and Edna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414595544981-1HUSIG6HSK9WA2P4KS99/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lost and Found: Do You Know Where Your Relatives Are? Click on the picture to see the story of Harry and Edna. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/27/scan-your-photos-for-free-in-slc monthly 0.5 2014-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414430841735-HGL3XTCN3ODC9Q0B1OOF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC Free photo scanning at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City! Whoo hoo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414431205196-VCEVNDT8B2E2ZN18PE0T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC The Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in downtown Salt Lake City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414433381770-PPO9S9IV7IIA03BYP36Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC A book scanner for scanning old public-domain books or oversize photos or artwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414431661070-T086VNLR7Q8711FMCNH0/IMG_1863.JPG Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC A bank of scanning stations at the Family History Library. Elder Shafer, a volunteer library worker, was there to help me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414432833466-2WS3ZRNBUGJ83GYZUZHR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC Scanning my large photos in the Kodak batch scanner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414432966837-FXHRK6F193MROS8PTBZN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC Thick or delicate photos should be scanned on the flatbed scanner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414433091413-FDZV81PRUN2J5LGI7DUH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC The scanner software separated and straightened all four photos on the bed automatically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414433286377-BTHCAPQJ311HBX4AJ5L6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scan Your Photos for Free in SLC Scanning a double-sided telegraph in the batch scanner captured both sides at the same time. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/23/quick-writing-tip-active-vs-passive-voice monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414104439014-NW9CG0TYIE69V6DMM0XT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Quick Writing Tip: Active vs. Passive Voice Is your writing working hard? Or is it sleeping in class? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1414106991018-1959U8WL9PEA5581GUQF/Vintage-Cherry-Pie.jpg Blog - Quick Writing Tip: Active vs. Passive Voice Active: "You ate my pie; I'm gonna whup you." Passive: "This heinous pie theft shall be avenged." https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/21/dont-like-to-write-dictate-your-stories-using-speech-to-text-software monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413932236745-KLXDESQEO61ZG3IEVR26/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Don’t Like to Write? Dictate Your Stories Using Speech-to-text Software Fortunately, speech-to-text technology has evolved a bit since the turn of the last century. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/21/is-honesty-the-best-policy-when-writing-your-life-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413907938463-JPWTEDLCM47N2YVEO889/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Is Honesty the Best Policy when Writing Your Life Stories? How honest should I be when writing a memoir? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/16/life-story-webinar-8-putting-your-book-together monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413492367820-LI51IW8MXDFKVHX2S1O2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinar #8: Putting Your Book Together https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/16/minimalism-and-family-history-part-two monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413482242348-T6UMF6OVSJQW1HP95CG2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two Cool modern pedigree chart by mytreeandme.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413484071182-VBE2IRNYN58COWWLWNBW/personal+box.jpg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two My personal life assets in one box. Not pretty, not Pinterest-worthy, but useful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413487428953-G51PGWUDBQ1NQXTXO4EM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two My high school and college memorabilia went from a giant box to one zip baggie and a mini-album. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413484314257-EQI3IDF9JIECHPTH9BNA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two Duplicates of a family history book? Keep the better copy and chuck the rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413484519954-VIHBM2S5NM5OUGC53BIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two Acid-free photo storage boxes take up less room than large photo albums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413484612579-67TCURD6KUCCTAWR9U3X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two This is the sum total of all my family history "stuff" at this point. I am still working on paring it down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413486154015-A0J228R5NOBQQP7933RM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two One portable file box of current genealogy research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413486365660-X9ATCTEUKEYE9AE3DZ48/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two My backup research box. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413486785467-QLLQUU4E8UIRXUVSCPX6/journals.jpg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two A banker's box of journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413486984757-IJYHEW6RMU8VM0LY2115/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two Two archival storage boxes contain unidentified ancestral photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1413487097535-X2FE9T1OUCOY17WN0JHR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part Two This binder of pedigree charts, no longer necessary for me in this digital age, got the toss. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/9/life-story-webinar-7-choosing-and-preparing-photos-for-a-personal-or-family-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412905794298-LH7ZG7Y67G2W5AMYNR16/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinar #7: Choosing and Preparing Photos for a Personal or Family History https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/9/minimalism-and-family-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412907397575-3HZJW9KQI3CPQTQWWAMM/whiteroom2.jpg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part One Is it possible to live with less and still preserve important family history? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412914836435-MIZ4ETY262XHAHMQ4JKA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Minimalism and Family History, Part One Please don't do this to your children. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/9/storytelling-in-business-some-links monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412916527565-YKJT0SJR7506KFJTOPVP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Storytelling in Business - Some Links https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/3/life-story-webinar-6-editing-your-first-draft monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412375718100-IXRIT4GM0IRJ2YBIF6HC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinar #6 - Editing Your First Draft https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/10/1/life-story-webinars-5-finding-theme-and-order-for-your-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1412180942088-CLRCFMISK34VCRL7H46U/05+theme+and+order+webinar.jpg Blog - Life Story Webinars #5 - Finding Theme and Order for Your Stories This week's webinar is "Finding Theme and Order for Your Stories" https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/9/15/life-story-webinars-4-how-to-write-your-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410804889739-3OMOLG3AKI4MPW0YAOOJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinars #4 - How to Write Your Stories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/9/15/adding-historical-context-to-your-autobiography monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410802540620-ZOJRB03PKFUQEM68TAEJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Adding Historical Context to Your Autobiography Do you remember the moon landing? Put your life stories in context with a little history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410802974202-GLIHZHLI9PAGT31O6RWJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Adding Historical Context to Your Autobiography Celebrations in San Francisco at the end of World War II. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/9/8/life-story-webinars-3 monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410217882766-LH2OCZ0FJOXM16VBO49A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinars #3: Story Triage-Choosing What Stories to Tell https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/9/8/tell-me-a-story-three-places-to-hear-great-true-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410213769860-PZKQT12U1J5N2WJD8CHE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tell Me a Story! Three Places to Hear Great True Stories Swell! We can still listen to stories on the radio! And online and in podcasts! It's a great day to be alive! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410216392152-QR2F4B6KFCSZIXMPWDUZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tell Me a Story! Three Places to Hear Great True Stories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/9/8/choosing-a-title-for-your-autobiography monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410194226996-82MDPC5N8A5NGOTN3IU3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing a Title for Your Autobiography The title of your book gives the reader a promise of what's to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410201112037-5NXTKHZ8NXM8RT7V0REL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing a Title for Your Autobiography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1410201192951-LWSRORICI8SLNGR95VBF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Choosing a Title for Your Autobiography https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/28/life-story-webinars-2-life-story-assets monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409283493284-WPZ8095LAFJR5EZ1KXML/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinars #2 - Your Life Story Assets https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/25/use-evernote-to-write-a-memoir monthly 0.5 2014-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409015291206-3N8CNLL5GA89DKH6EE9V/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Use Evernote to Write a Memoir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409013591094-N3NYAS1OFP47M3DTCTSP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Use Evernote to Write a Memoir A simple life timeline using Evernote folders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409014181410-03GB82Z76PDV2FGK96LY/image-asset.png Blog - Use Evernote to Write a Memoir Evernote's web clipper icon, resident in your browser bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409014274166-2TQYUP1SQICMYCMZ8MTL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Use Evernote to Write a Memoir Upon clicking the Evernote web clipper tool, I am presented with a menu with my own notebooks. I can then choose which notebook I want to add it to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1409014566973-63GKN7YRKPOT8V0LI9FN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Use Evernote to Write a Memoir Here is the tag I created called "Write about this!" To add this tag to a note, I just right-click on the note and choose "assign tag." It will bring up my list of tags, and I check a box for each tag I want to add to that note or create a new tag. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/25/how-to-organize-your-digitized-genealogy-photos monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408990338540-2ZIFIRKF0K6CP0POT1XQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Organize your scanned genealogy photos and documents on your computer based on a four-color file system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408991548565-ICU0YVGXRI4TL9K3TH8M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Here's my file system, with my color-coded four major family lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408991698075-TBLUKGPLEMOL02GJILH0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Here's my 6-generation fan chart. I've added in the numbers from my file system to each individual on the chart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408992055622-65NRKQA5T8CLTB1UTB07/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos The numbers flow from left to right, generation by generation. I am #1, my dad is #2, mom #3, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408999648517-RJ82FUBSPR9GXXUYEPYD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos This is what my four empty folders look like in Windows, based on my four colors/family lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408993888257-IZPCFZNV502KJN02W17Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Using Adobe Bridge (comes with Photoshop), I can even color-code my folders with the same colors as my paper system! Cool! (You can download an app called Folder Colorizer to do this in Windows too, but I've never used it so I can't recommend it.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408996310168-370VW8WOBHTTFQCCRUUR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos My grandparents' file numbers on the chart are 4 and 5, so I keep all photos and documents pertaining to the two of them and their children in this folder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408995061067-GL6CDQWVOMV4YA5E9LG8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Here is a subfolder for my parents, created in my Armstrong line folder. Within this folder, I created optional subfolders for my photos and my brother's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408996011869-5HCZL0S5LWH2IODC3YE3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos Here is my subfolder, located in my parents' subfolder. My brother has one too. This only contains photos of me before my marriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408996574354-UTXISC6QDY6YPQAZO0FR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Organize Your Digitized Genealogy Photos How to handle a photo that could belong in many different folders? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/19/life-story-webinars monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408470904033-1CGYEN2KHUWH73M6WEHQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Life Story Webinars - #1 Defining Your Purpose and Creating a Timeline https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/19/what-tense-and-point-of-view-should-i-use-in-my-memoir monthly 0.5 2014-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408487991882-O1RHIGD1NCT72EMYR49T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Tense and Point of View Should I Use in My Memoir? Decisions, decisions.... https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/18/our-top-ten-favorite-quotes-about-writing-personal-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408383537183-3EXR1IG72B7QAE4SN37F/top+ten+quotes.jpg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History Our top ten favorite quotes to help you write about your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408382538873-K8XG3X23OT2XNRHT96GH/image-asset.png Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408381491562-91BFAZ0PB47OLX87PZ90/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408381541884-OPAB2HM2NEYKQE9DXHBO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408381683999-0T3DQX9G9GISHUUERUE0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408381795600-YMFIC3VXCXGSBR11GFBN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408381925923-3D0B4C1PQ1X48HY1X5JC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408382571863-RI43GTK6ZVZIEWAN39YZ/dennis+neuenschwander.jpg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408382593672-X0QATCYFFWZLAGK2CUGF/image-asset.png Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408382663408-69BGEEW0BDSZ4YLIVK7O/Isak+Dinesen.jpg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1408382851559-ATWIHH2GEACZG2S0RQ4X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Our Top Ten Favorite Quotes about Writing a Personal History https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/8/6/are-you-a-precrastinator monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1407361103280-80SAOGR4FOKY8SHT216U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Are You a Precrastinator?   "I know the sun is shining, but I spent two days looking for this umbrella on ebay!" https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/28/the-100-most-influential-people-in-your-life monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406567637724-H2TPHJQMLB81MUH1LFGH/ashleygilreathnecklace.gif Blog - The 100 Most Influential People - In Your Life Our lives are not our own; we are interconnected in a web of influence and inspiration. Who are the people who have influenced you? (This beautiful necklace, entitled "I Am Who They Were," is by Ashley Gilreath.) https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/28/3-tips-for-a-better-book-cover monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406578328111-OCQHW007RO0OYLJKCN7N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover One of our latest covers, for client Jimmie Hughes. It incorporates a title and subtitle, three different fonts, a photo, and decorative elements. It manages to convey a lighthearted, western mood without being too busy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406577981330-40OAV13AOOVKSG7ZSTLY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover For a book on scientist Marvin Johnson, we came up with three different cover concepts. The one on the right was the final choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406574540739-1RAYVHWLQBYZ6K35JL3Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover This book's title is ridiculously long, don't you think? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406575299289-A42QWNGTQ4O8YO8UJYE9/fay+cover+sample.jpg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover This book cover uses only two fonts, an all-caps font and a fancy script. The pop of red against a simple monochromatic background image makes for a striking yet readable cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406576795386-N0B29T7M47HJ2RBV0042/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover On the left, fussy fonts and a busy background don't mix. On the right, a much cleaner design using the same photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406577627183-8DPHGPVCQIKXO9XTYBM0/IMG_8221.jpg Blog - 3 Tips for a Better Book Cover Of course, you don't even have to use a photo on a book cover. A simple stamped leather cover looks clean and classy. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/22/link-of-the-week-how-they-made-books-in-1947 monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406063015116-YD4AD8UZLZPNO3N7Q99S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Link of the Week: How They Made Books in 1947 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/21/what-you-need-to-know-about-jpeg-compression monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405976337820-HXH3CX7JFS7FIP64ZNRG/bad+compression.jpg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression We've all seen pics that look like this. Here's how to not do this to your photos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406051480216-NSC09I47DH61SP4NK5QC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression Left: scanned at 600 ppi but at medium jpeg quality. Right: scanned at 600 ppi, maximum jpeg quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406052940189-9J5ZEHAXB2KX6RR529XQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression If you want to be able to print a photo, use the largest file size. If you will only be using these photos to text or socialize, you can fit more on your camera's media by using a smaller size, but still try to avoid the "stairstep" or compressed settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406059342994-PCKBY3Q4ZJ53M1YO3EYY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression Here's our original, high quality photo, saved as a TIF file for editing. After all my edits are done, I now want to make a high-quality JPEG copy to upload to a printing site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406059478778-S5JXUIU0MNCG732F9AC8/crop1.jpg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression I have saved this at the maximum JPEG quality, or 12 on a scale of 1-12. This will give me a file that will be smaller than the TIF but won't show any difference to the naked eye. Notice that even close up, the high-contrast edges of the photo look smooth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406059751675-6FPG37NCYWO4OW9SGUMV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression Now let's see what happens when we save it on a medium quality setting. It still looks pretty good on the screen. But let's look a little closer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406059924769-LBHP4H9XFS910SQVASNT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression As we get closer, we can see the damage, those square artifacts, jagged edges and color shifts. These will show up much more when printed on paper than they do on the screen. (Saved as 6, medum quality jpeg) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1406060110892-6HSS3AEQKVS2MSCBS8RE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What You Need to Know about JPEG Compression I saved this jpeg image on the lowest setting. This shows artifacts even on the screen, and would look even worse when printed. Notice the blocky color shifts in the white area between her head and hand and the roughness around the edges. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/14/what-i-learned-about-journal-keeping-from-my-ancestor monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405376820158-RYH15ILBSV0I32FDU8RT/20140714_143000.jpg Blog - What I Learned from My Ancestor about Journal Keeping My third-great-aunt's journal from 1899. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405372493747-GFEK8DIY5KZR1ESGALIF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What I Learned from My Ancestor about Journal Keeping Meal for a mouse? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405376841525-UO6VW5I607RJ48OMZB75/20140714_142644.jpg Blog - What I Learned from My Ancestor about Journal Keeping The pencil held up much better than the paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405376960587-7N87098GCEYTIILYC3XN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What I Learned from My Ancestor about Journal Keeping Papers tied with ribbon, and an inexplicable "Trilby" stamped in the upper left corner of each page. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/14/using-historical-photos-to-enhanceyour-memoir monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405358212543-DEZVZ1W54WU5G8L3WWFH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History Remember these? E ticket rides were the best. Although many images on the internet are copyrighted, many such as this one are available for use in your project via Creative Commons licenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405355867106-ZN6UQYCZK33QOU8IIRLZ/2columnpage.jpg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History This page includes a World War II-era photo of the bombing of Rotterdam, as well as a photo of a memorial sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405356041501-MDDVVG21RCWWYJ54Z264/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History Here's a photo I used to enhance a client's book, in which he was telling a story about atomic testing in Nevada. I found it on Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405356653896-IMQ49H8UPD0UZZRLDV8Z/map.jpg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History Maps can be a great addition to your book. I found this one on www.davidrumsey.com, under a creative commons license. This map image was available free for personal (but not commercial) use, and since the client was not selling their book commercially, it fit the license requirements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405357753078-MLS8QO7KC9BL1Y1FXO8Z/487px-The_Partridge_Family_Cast_1972.jpg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History Okay, so I was weirdly obsessed with the Partridge Family, and wanted to include a photo in a book about my childhood. This image from Wikimedia Commons states in the licensing agreement "This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice." Because it is in the public domain, I can safely use it in my book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1405355308000-FIRO8CB2ANGX7DXD6K65/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Using Public Domain Photos to Enhance Your Personal History This drawing depicts what life might have been like for my pre-colonial ancestor, log cabin included. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/7/4/independence-day-video-from-a-veteran monthly 0.5 2014-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1404493696140-D2T465CECOF24XW18ZOC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Independence Day — Video from a Veteran John Lindquist at Hill Aerospace Museum in front of B-17 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/6/26/a-little-friday-wisdom-house-and-home monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403830418205-ROXSZN0AEUA6MWKE51SX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Little Friday Wisdom: House and Home Wisdom about house and home from Daryl Hoole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403830854561-YS5HLUD6DCXKMUNFME98/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Little Friday Wisdom: House and Home Opening pages of Daryl Hoole's autobiography, "A Living Testimony." https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/6/25/how-to-fix-a-faded-photo monthly 0.5 2014-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403715273096-SAF9KEFXIE47DLV1DVPK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Here's a faded photo of one of my ancestors. Just a few quick clicks in Photoshop, and doesn't he look better? Here's how I did it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403724468925-Q6HGUU6KGK5UPTVT5L27/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Here is my original scan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403724558293-K0GYEEAZT3B5RQ5D6XGW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Not much of a difference using Auto Tone in Photoshop. What to do? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403724762666-FXBN7IPOJW9I63E2VO1L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Cropping the white edges keeps Photoshop's Auto Tone from thinking Uncle Willie's white collar is supposed to be medium gray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403726067531-1M3C2FKJV0BLVLOX8EMI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo In your Layers palette, add a duplicate layer and change the blend mode to Multiply. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403726581297-7BBMPJ3DKWC5E0124BFB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Use the Levels palette to increase the contrast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403726935238-05DEXQRO5EBDV4VBT7DF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Now the sliders are closer to the edges of the histogram hills, and the contrast is much better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403727269741-2LV4RMCYQG39VCB1T174/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Much better! A little digital botox (the Healing Brush and the Dust and Scratches filter) will spruce him up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403728092982-SXFKMS6CUA7FQZFI2173/7-brushtool.jpg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Grab a big, soft black brush and brush over the area where the original photo was vignetted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403728200982-7KDHUCCUQPU8S48A1RQP/3a-multiply.jpg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Lower the opacity of the vignette layer until you get the result you desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1403728421128-B9OWE9FVJBYNVQKLTXY7/9-final+image.jpg Blog - How to Fix a Faded Photo Uncle Willie restored to his former glory. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/6/16/a-little-friday-wisdom-life-lessons-from-our-clients monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402959642203-XYZEYLEJR692FKKE6EMY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Little Friday Wisdom: Life Lessons from Our Clients Dorothy Nielsen England with her daughter Claudia. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/6/16/foreshadowing-creating-suspense-in-your-memoir monthly 0.5 2014-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402974645902-G03YRQQMZKB611THKM0X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Creating Suspense in Your Memoir: Foreshadowing and Cliffhangers https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/6/16/ten-tips-to-improve-your-photography monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402945542808-JSKTRBXE19D229YA0P89/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots The closer the better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402942908937-7Z56NQ88GYFKT3MNKN9F/annie+sepia.jpg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots The combination of using a wide angle lens close up and an extreme angle (shooting up from the ground) is used to comic effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402943138711-VGAS5WYXZB6D74OEDOKK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots It's okay to look down on your subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402946828673-8I2I6PLJK5LTR46B9AVV/2b+low+angle.jpg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Shooting up from a low angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402947134211-RE4INHMF7AKCGX5AUQNG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Like our new hats? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402947415802-735R2E28XCBQDV3B6S5X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Although this background is rather busy, the photographer blurred it nicely by using a shallow depth of field (you can also use the "portrait" mode on your camera). This puts the focus back on the subject. Photo by Milan Jurek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402947658196-OEIN5FUT39JA1WZD8L83/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Beautiful roses--oh, wait, there's a person there! Make sure your focus point is set on the right spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402947806710-UGR6OC624HBCRDGCULZS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots This photo makes good use of diagonal lines of the fence which point to the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402948333054-8P1UM89K8E815SMIIPKF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Look for lines to draw the eye to your subject - diagonals and curves are especially effective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402948520044-262WQKFSMIJ0TU3OLUFL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots The photo on the top is static in composition. The lower shot uses palms in the foreground and a mountain behind to create a frame for the sailboat, which is attractively placed off-center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402948603687-69KTQWZMNSL3N07XO9ZQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Here, a chain link fence makes a great frame. Just make sure your focus point isn't focusing on the fence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402953423646-CM59CO26HDSUOA13OPCG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots On the left, the subject is squinting into the sun and the shadows are harsh. By moving to the shady side of the building, the light is softer and more flattering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402953621898-QOQ3FK7YLKW9TOS02CCR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Put the sun behind the subject (rather than behind the photographer) and use your flash to fill in the shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402953827117-6IQT6NMQO1X7GW5FB2N8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Simply changing the angle and moving in closer eliminated all the problems in the left photo (squinty subject, harsh sun, a busy background). Putting the sun behind the subject gives a nice highlight to the hair and eliminates squint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402954416529-FHOQBF2193GDDR8VBMUD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Top: subject is too far away from the camera for the flash to be effective; the foreground elements are lit instead. Middle: too close with the flash! Bottom: just about right. You should be about 6-10 feet from your subject if you are using a flash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402954692946-RU97QAIUB33MGJXV2IPV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots This photo was taken indoors at night in low light using an ISO speed of 1600, without flash. Although there is a more pronounced grain, the light is softer and more flattering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402955082084-5K5F3ZHD9XGJI18O08BI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots This photo is lit by only a window. A piece of white posterboard was placed just out of the frame on the right to open up some of the dark shadows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402955335529-Y5HTSG88NSQU6LKNV99M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Scary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1402956359194-DD3KLULTRDC2DKH89IQC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ten Tips to Improve Your Snapshots Try bracing your body against a tree or wall to steady yourself. Photo courtesy of Canon5Dtips.com https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/28/five-life-lessons-weve-learned-from-our-clients monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1401300567743-P1NV7MB7ZGYMP4DK3HP5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Five Life Lessons We've Learned from Our Clients' Stories https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/29/link-of-the-week-writing-a-memoir-with-william-zinsser monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1401379236540-YDG4ZF1SEOS9EHDCLE7J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Link of the Week - Writing a Memoir with William Zinsser Great advice on writing a memoir from writing coach William Zinsser. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/28/your-family-history-book-should-you-diy-or-hire-a-designer monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1401294627998-DXCU4Y03M54N8ZUT71JR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Your Family History Book - Should You DIY or Hire a Designer? Your family history book - should you DIY or hire a designer? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/22/memorial-day-traditions monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400820481455-FJ3GHYT1TYWZEQI7XXVP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Memorial Day Traditions Our annual graveside memorial service at the family ranch in Southern Utah, where my Uncle Glendon and two of his children are buried. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/22/should-you-live-for-your-resumeor-your-eulogy monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400817692169-76LK9D1K2NZXVFH85KQJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Should You Live for Your Resume...or Your Eulogy? David Brooks asks the question: should you live for your resume or your eulogy? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400817902959-OPMN9K53L29SPS66OADC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Should You Live for Your Resume...or Your Eulogy? Columnist David Brooks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400817870638-M4JAGC0S65K8TK9TFGS1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Should You Live for Your Resume...or Your Eulogy? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/19/the-pros-and-cons-of-keeping-your-life-in-the-cloud monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400555092460-HO07DWI1C76NWGSVSWD7/what+is+the+cloud.jpg Blog - The Pros and Cons of Keeping Your Life in the Cloud   What is "the cloud," exactly? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1400554876035-KYIG5KB9ISI1KZNVER6H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Pros and Cons of Keeping Your Life in the Cloud   You can easily access your photos and other data from any of your devices. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/12/do-you-wish-you-knew-your-mother-better monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399919253556-S460FZSDS1YW3N2QO3D7/el_052.jpg Blog - Do You Wish You Knew Your Mother Better? My pretty mommy, Doris Wood Armstrong. How I wish I had asked her more questions while she was alive. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/12/lessons-from-american-history-what-gets-remembered monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399924433295-IZG3924PIPDY9ON7MZQJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Lessons from American History – What Gets Remembered? Paul Revere and Abraham Lincoln ponder their legacies. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/12/how-to-photograph-pictures-under-glass-other-shiny-things monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399915950051-YLJUDX42PFMRD7B42FXQ/Untitled-2.jpg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things   Do your pictures look like the one on the left? Here's an easy way to improve your reproductions without using any special lighting or equipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399916070527-FH29Y1W5OCMT2EOJLKEN/IMG_9789.JPG Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things On-camera flash always leaves a reflection on the glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399912424375-NMPYS3L4OQH5BBTV0EB7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things Oops! Now with the flash off, my photo is blurry because of a slow shutter speed. I still have a reflection from a window or something behind me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399913177972-2FATRR0FXVB1WFWMXJ7E/IMG_9795.JPG Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things Here I've got some crazy bright reflections of white fence, blue sky, and myself showing up in the photo. I can prevent this by angling the photo so that I have a darker, non-reflective surface behind me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399913551539-7BNRMF0MNM597PTCKU6B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things It's much better, but I still have some bright reflections up in the corners, where bright sky is showing between tree leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399913478434-U4CIP2XHNWV27A97OBI5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things That's better! I held up a piece of white foam board behind my head while I snapped the picture to block out the sky reflections. (I was lucky, in this case, to hold my right hand still enough to get a sharp shot. If you use a tripod or have someone else hold the board, it'll be easier to get an in-focus photo.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399915188281-MHEIJYG8L4HOKVGXWI87/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things Shoot straight on to avoid distortion. Stand away and use a telephoto lens to remove curvature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399915305457-81TO51UNCY7EUOD77VYA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Photograph Pictures Under Glass & Other Shiny Things Voila! Much better than my first attempt. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/5/how-to-capture-story-ideas-on-a-life-timeline monthly 0.5 2019-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399346972289-ERIXOQWQOXIPBV44M18Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Capture Story Ideas on a Life Timeline All those story ideas, rolling around in there. How do you capture them before they get away? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1399347154487-WRNK6IPWZCZS88RT9A83/timeline.jpg Blog - How to Capture Story Ideas on a Life Timeline Starting a life timeline is easy and fun, and will ease you into the writing process. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/1/obituary-as-biography-the-saga-of-harry-weathersby-stamps monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/5/1/is-it-narcisstic-to-write-a-memoir monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398963823218-XQVX3EK6O5E778FS0B8S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Is It Narcissistic to Write a Memoir?   Is it narcissistic to write a memoir? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/28/the-easy-way-to-organize-your-digital-photos-the-sock-drawer-method monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398889323384-RRGT8O4U1B7YID9TX47L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method Here's a low-stress way to organize your digital photos. No special software required. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398884298738-C04T9CNHRS4FEWEOBOCW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method You don't have to get all your photos perfectly organized at the outset; you just need to get them in the right "drawers." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398889931398-ULIL35S0EEKEHMO0CZLC/file+hierarchy+type.jpg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method This was my first sketch of my photo "drawers." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398879665862-S0BOFJISGBH60NZNNMJY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method This is what a sample file hierarchy might look like. These are still just blank folders at this point. These blank folders will be the repository for the photos that are scattered on your various devices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398890102794-QJ6OAG61993WM5WOZW8T/file+hier+drag+drop.jpg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method Drag and drop the photos from their original location into the appropriate folders in your new system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398881241303-X76S0H9PI0TWI8F1IVUA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Easy Way to Organize Your Digital Photos - the "Sock Drawer" Method I added some subfolders and a "needs research" folder for unidentified photos. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/21/making-a-book-of-personal-memories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398118800630-4T53FXQ355JSNRRW8WKJ/Cosmic+Runner+by+Peter+Max Blog - Making a Book of Personal Memories Cosmic Runner by Peter Max, my favorite artist at the time. © Peter Max 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398119394223-K8AAMMC3GZRCCU54YRW3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Book of Personal Memories I finished my little personal memory book in less than a weekend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398119862093-TU1W0KGVGLTH127E0RJZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Book of Personal Memories A little bit about my childhood home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398120230476-3KQBKEF3TX5YKSRUYAJG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Book of Personal Memories Historical photos and lists of what I remember (and what I don't) from the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398120367484-HR1ABWRS4798BCSVCHF0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Making a Book of Personal Memories My childhood passions: pink frosted lipstick and flower-power wallpaper. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/21/tags-and-captions-how-to-label-your-digital-photos-using-metadata monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398097297230-U6K4OX2YG57D3IWHHUH2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata You are conscientious about writing on the back of a photo print. But what do you do with your digital photos? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398095844798-VYYN6BGUVQQJ4ZJFHVCI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata Putting in descriptions, keywords and caption information is easy in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398096931913-A8K8AK5FWN3XSB8NBMYY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata You can also type metadata directly into Bridge. If you have more than one photo selected, the info will appear with each selected photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398098723533-77MSOUYMI5L2GL8H70T4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata In Picasa, click on the "Make a caption!" field below the photo and type your caption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398100402749-79KOTPBUZ2L64QJ6LXRM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata You can easily add caption information directly into Windows Explorer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1398100661743-BSQNNG3ST048TCMIGAB6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Tags and Captions - How to Label Your Digital Photos Using Metadata Here is a closup of the caption added to the "Title" field. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/16/presenting-at-the-uga-south-davis-family-history-event monthly 0.5 2014-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397682575649-22HAPDQA8G5DYEVSCG79/UGA Blog - Presenting at the UGA South Davis Family History Event We will be presenting at next week's UGA South Davis Family History Fair. Hope to see you there! https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/16/the-business-of-family-history monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397667315219-N7G7XXAT4YNN7CIB2WX6/Alison+Taylor+at+Rootstech Blog - The Business of Family History Here I am at Rootstech 2014, spreading the gospel of storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397664116990-LMZCGRI7FTZNJ7TYHPR1/life+highlights+book Blog - The Business of Family History Alison works with client Fay Miles on her personal history, "Riches of His Grace." On the right is the final product. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/14/how-to-email-a-full-resolution-photo monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397498705080-GCTET5S0TA0AQH1NBDTZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   Here's the scoop on emailing a photo from your computer, smart phone, or tablet at its original resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397499469210-GG2356H73ANTJ1B29FO1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   You can either click on "attach file" and navigate to where the photo resides on your computer, or if the photo is handy you can drag it directly anywhere into the email. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397499685168-Q8SJ3F4DOMW3DZNH5UZ6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo Your attachment will show up in the attachment bar just beneath the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397500996057-HBB2MWVILKCCKJUNGE8M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   Attaching the photo is generally easier than using the "insert photo" tools, but if you do use them, make sure to set the file size you want. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397501308369-9I456RQXNH91AA8U7ZNL/emailing+a+photo+from+picasa Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   Emailing a photo from Picasa is easy, but make sure you set the default file size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397501667141-S3IFN2P9P9UPNLNLMCIQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   Under the email tab, set the default size to "original size." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397503793992-WOGQ9YKZQO99LSZR94QG/emailing+photo+from+samsung+phone Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo This menu on my Samsung Galaxy Note pops up every time I email a photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397502428842-XGSSRCIKWOGKDW1NMVQ6/email+high+res+photo+from+ipad Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   Emailing a full-res photo from an iPad is a tad more obscure. (You can tell that I only use my iPad to photograph food. This is my cherry-rhubarb cream cheese tart. If you want the recipe, let me know!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1397502922446-RLXOOS2MFZARZ0B8PKNB/email+photo+from+ipad Blog - How to Email a Full-Resolution Photo   The hidden image size menu on my iPad. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/11/why-printed-books-will-never-die monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396905676706-WM64SIFR2XWJXCUNKROL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Why Printed Books Will Never Die   Do you view some books as sacred objects? I do. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/7/3-design-tricks-to-make-your-book-more-readable monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396903706201-6HIJ7Q2H1T8GM4JYQUK8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   A compelling book design will draw your reader in to the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396901262527-BRN2GJSFH06CKSJ62177/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   Using wider margins and more white space gives a restful, friendly feel to the page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396901515018-EHEFWRCDRCFP0XVKTCMS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   This book's narrow margins and wide columns in a large book can cause greater eyestrain when reading. Not to mention that it looks kind of boring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396902622059-3G4DJNYHUPV0FZQ1Y3NO/2columnpage.jpg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   If your book will be wider than 8 inches, you may want to use two columns. Or if the amount of material is such that you need to use a single column to prevent your book from being too long, make the margins a little bigger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396901724831-ING6IUV79Z8AUP2C5M0N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   If your book is oversized or has a "landscape" orientation, you may want to use three or even four text columns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396902906735-0DUYWHD2NTBU1XERM20H/image-asset.png Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable Use a friendly font and font size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396903408346-LNBT19CJJRV6H1BMV7AC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 3 Design Tricks to Make Your Book More Readable   Don't go it alone! We can help design your book. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/7/cars-and-dresses-the-random-nature-of-memory monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396896403521-M120W9Q6AQ40SVSBW5AI/carsanddresses Blog - Cars vs. Dresses - the Random Nature of Memory   Your first date -- you remember the crepe de chine; he remembers the Chevy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396897259040-WOFWAYTUDHXQGNDU6CX9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cars vs. Dresses - the Random Nature of Memory   Your mother's shrimp and Spam jello mold -- delicious or disgusting? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/31/pictures-and-stories-client-profile-fred-ball monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396310439939-WTY4S8F0F89IAURJAEJ3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Pictures and Stories Client Profile - Fred Ball A photo from Doug Robinson's article "Dynamo Fred Ball wishes he were still working." Photo by Matt Glade, Deseret News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396310203991-1QVW9JWOJ7IKJNM8T9R9/fred+ball+book.jpg Blog - Pictures and Stories Client Profile - Fred Ball A page from Fred Ball's book, "I'm Not Lucky, I'm Blessed." https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/31/show-dont-tell-including-relevant-detail-in-your-story monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396308886677-VAZ5X97AFD7HMQ7PU01K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show, Don't Tell: Including Detail in Your Story When you describe your childhood home, can your reader picture it in his mind? Does he know what it was like for you to live there, what you did there, and how you felt? Create a mental snapshot with interesting detail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396309541773-BOR1D5MGTLCIZDCA6Z1E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Show, Don't Tell: Including Detail in Your Story Are the details in your descriptions interesting? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396309014657-HJ2LEVY1K42L63IG19IA/baby-in-drawer-1953.jpg Blog - Show, Don't Tell: Including Detail in Your Story Weave important genealogical data into a story to make it more compelling. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/31/how-to-choose-pictures-for-a-personalfamily-history-book monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396305502428-RISJXHHPWQAMJ3QR912K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book If it's a great photo but it doesn't fit the scope of your story, consider saving it for another project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396303803474-PKOH6I31BHG20IELWNA7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book Which do you think is more interesting? The Tower of London or the Tower with Aunt Alice? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396304354432-M64I834Q1VUMJ4KL1F0D/personality.jpg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book The studio photo in the center is of good quality, but it doesn't capture the real personalities of my grandmother, the perpetual nurturer, or my grandfather, the perpetual clown. Even though the other photos are a little blurry or grainy, I would choose them over the studio portrait any day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396302785940-HVLWXMX49E2EV4U4GJP3/color+correction.jpg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book The miracle of Photoshop autocorrect tools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396302890816-T2JM9KARW4KIWQTLFXPW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book Documents, letters, and other ephemeral bits of history can add a visual flair as well as important information. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1396304941205-U7RN2M52YR0ACB98JQH1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - How to Choose Pictures for a Memoir or Family History Book The subjects in this photo comb through the ruins of their apartment building after their city was bombed during World War II. While not all of us have such dramatic photos, look for photos that invoke a strong emotional response. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/24/your-mementos-keep-or-toss monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395673347984-HMYDR5T7B5736CSOQ1AN/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Family Mementos - Keep or Toss? Are your mementos bringing you joy or weighing you down? (Photo by Julia Freeman-Woolpert) https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/24/a-story-genealogy-book-by-the-numbers-part-two monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395683501058-EPU7GFLGF9HXICL1PF41/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part Two) In this book we created for a client, we started with a couple about five generations back and included all their descendants to the present time. This chart shows the couple's eight children, each of whom are numbered. We used their birth order as the chapter order for the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395684505331-FW0BC3CAEEF6D26BK5IY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part Two) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395684575834-GT50432ZLDYXHZZI3TQD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part Two) We used a circular fan chart to detail families with a larger number of descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395685133082-YKGQ1FTDPYNIH528UFNT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part Two) If you have a photograph that shows what your ancestor's life was like, use it! Even if it's faded or dusty. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/24/a-story-genealogy-by-the-numbers-part-one monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395681551237-7Y2W49NSPRQJEDIUIOPF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) Want to create a book about your ancestors, but don't have a clue where to start? Start with a simple pedigree chart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395678682640-J6CBCUZJ68E85HLPSPD5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) A five-generation chart, numbered from 1 to 31. The numbering system on a standard pedigree chart holds the perfect clue to organizing your family history book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395678062692-IOK36WVL7GJRIZ2ZUJT8/005-ECA.jpg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) Focus on a single line or a finite number of generations to display in your book. This book is limited to four generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395680543105-SF8JVJS315MEPMGVMRXG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) Display the ancestor's pedigree chart number prominently to keep your reader from getting "lost." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395680754355-8K1EAESJ7D5VP3Z65GWB/010-ECA.jpg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) Photos, if you have them, with captions, will bring the genealogical data to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395680608230-ZZURY73Y48IRRP48VQTT/025-ECA.jpg Blog - A "Story Genealogy" Book - By the Numbers (Part One) A stylized "family group sheet" shows information about this couple's children. Stories, additional pictures and obituaries of this couple and their children appear on subsequent pages. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/21/save-the-date-uga-south-davis-family-history-fair monthly 0.5 2014-03-21 https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/20/a-thank-you-book-in-time-for-mothersfathers-day monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395335725142-KWUSB3CDZSDLGHHG53H9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A "Thank You" Book for Mothers/Fathers Day A tribute book can be a great way to honor your parents, grandparents, or other loved ones. You can put one together in a relatively short time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395339168210-FCJMFIUOVDZTYI7N7H6Q/aca-0025.jpg Blog - A "Thank You" Book for Mothers/Fathers Day My grandmother reads to my brother and me. No wonder I love books so much. (And I appear to be holding a camera...hhmmmm....) https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/17/using-documents-in-a-personal-or-family-history monthly 0.5 2014-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395106254876-T2IZLHB23J0W2MMTKB8B/passport+pages Blog - Using Documents to Illustrate a Personal or Family History Images of old paper - letters, passports, report cards, etc. - can add visual interest to your personal history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395107027592-44OS0ILE9N9Q0PIDI589/wendelltaylorpilot Blog - Using Documents to Illustrate a Personal or Family History An aviator's logbook gives a touch of verite to the story of this World War II pilot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1395108000412-VXL7C4GX2QG5CX7OEI8G/wendell+flight.jpg Blog - Using Documents to Illustrate a Personal or Family History Chinese currency brought home after World War II. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/12/reluctant-subject-how-to-write-a-tribute-life-story-book monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394637834643-I1ZBQR321XQJD1RPCTX1/family+history+tribute+book Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book You want to write a life story book about a loved one, but he's not so hot on the idea. What to do? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394637971688-7SX7N1P1RL545R0Q4JC5/honeymoon+photos Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book Marvin's wife Marilyn wrote a narrative and provided some pictures for the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394638067650-URM03EBEZO0UNG6N519Q/periodic+table+of+personality Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book We created a "Periodic Table of Marvin" (a world-renowned chemist) to highlight his personality traits, favorite expressions, and family members. His scientist friends in particular got a kick out of this chart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394639063520-WZORZ4KTK0CT39OJTFGY/childhood+page.jpg Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book A chapter about Marvin's childhood and his first introduction to a chemistry set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394638988743-WHQ6GX5KJPCH0TIP9EBA/IMG_9317.jpg Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book Marvin Johnson receives the National Medal of Technology from President Reagan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394639216215-BKTNC9PPCQTNAV7ZW8P4/twilight+years.jpg Blog - Reluctant Subject? How to Write a "Tribute" Life Story Book If you have a great family photo, give it the full-page treatment. Photo by Mary Jane Egan Huddleston. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/10/tips-for-photographing-sentimental-objects monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394468503267-EXY6KRZHE0O86GD0IMBX/teacup.jpg Blog - Tips for Photographing Sentimental Objects Using a clean, uncluttered background and natural light will show off your item to best advantage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394469081397-2J53F8FTQ9QIAFVR0Y1L/IMG_9400.JPG Blog - Tips for Photographing Sentimental Objects Using natural window light, with a white cardboard reflector on the opposite side, will bring out the detail in your object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394469189793-PE0NZ8R6QSUC5LKRID3Q/IMG_9407.JPG Blog - Tips for Photographing Sentimental Objects Using a flash washes out the detail, and may highlight the wrong object. Distracting background elements detract from the beauty of my mother-in-law's evening bag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394470405668-41VDX8QN8IO91QE6CPCN/teacup+angles.jpg Blog - Tips for Photographing Sentimental Objects These two photos were shot in exactly the same place on my dining room table in front of a north-facing window. For the top photo I placed it on a piece of white paper and shot slightly from above. The bottom photo has a busier background, but gives a sense of place. If you want to include background objects without them distracting too much, try using the "portrait" mode on your camera to blur the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394470717948-JVSUHNSCGBVY30VT0P9X/wall+angles.jpg Blog - Tips for Photographing Sentimental Objects The painting on the top is shot head-on, lens parallel to the wall, with the window on the right. Shooting from the side causes distortion and sometimes unwanted reflections. Stand back and use a telephoto to get the least distortion. https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/7/are-your-strongest-memories-from-your-childhood monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394201464778-QZ6MDNZOJKWQKU08KWQQ/baby%27s+day+out+Alison+Armstrong.jpg Blog - Are Your Strongest Memories from Your Childhood? "Baby's Day Out," copyright 2003 Alison Armstrong https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/5/walking-on-eggshells-writing-about-family-members-in-your-stories monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1394052494296-7HU7TSFP7ZI29ZOIKAUU/Vintage-Anatomy-Skeleton-Images-GraphicsFairy-th.jpg Blog - Walking on eggshells: Writing about Family Members in Your Stories When writing your life stories, should you include family skeletons? https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/3/3/the-funnel-method-for-scanning-photos monthly 0.5 2018-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51142d0be4b067782b66f751/1393870415174-IJ6PDM4GZUIWK5OWHWB9/funnel+method+for+scanning.jpg Blog - The Funnel Method for Scanning Photos - Infographic The "funnel method" for scanning photos - start big, then make smaller copies. 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