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We've got thousands of photos stored and for ages now have been thinking of choosing a few to make in to pictures for the house.
Just waiting for the weather to break and will finally get to look through them all.
Has anyone done this?
 
This is I suspect a task many of us need to tackle. We have albums in the loft, many loose photos in bags in addition to those stored on redundant computers and of course our phones.
We have considered one of those photo sticks, but seemingly they don’t work with Apple devices.
What’s the secret ?
 
We did the same a few years ago. It’s sad but I got out every picture I could find and took a photograph with my iPhone. I then organised the all into folders on my iPad or iphone.
now at a whim I can go to any local photographic establishment and get a poster made. Believe me it is a mammoth undertaking but worth it in the end. You have plenty of time, go for it. ?
 
Over a few wet weeks back in January I scanned around 1500 photos onto the laptop, also have a copy on a portable hard drive. Brought a second hand photo scanner for £50 and just sat and scanned one at a time, about 1 minute per photo, from lifting lid to removing photo, very time consuming but we rarely looked at the hard copy photos but regularly look at our photos on laptop.
Can save the image at diferente qualities depending what you want to do with them. Obviously the higher quality image the longer to scan photo.

Next time I deliver food to my parents I'll be picking all their photos up and slowly scan them.

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I thought about "digitizing" my 60+ years of photographs, but then I sat back and thought that as I haven't looked at them for so many years, it wasn't important then and even less now as with no children and no close family, who on earth would be interested in them? If I want to see them I can dig out the old albums, carefully compiled by my wonderfully OCD late wife, and get all upset that it's all over. Each to their own I suppose.
 
Like most people we have thousands of photos that are rarely seen. Mrs Tonyg is compiling photo books ordered online via sites like Cewe (lots of other sites available but she likes that one). A secondary project is scanning in old family photos to make an "archive". If you scan in the annual school portraits you get an interesting effect as the child in question grows up before your eyes!
 
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DiggerJon said:
I thought about "digitizing" my 60+ years of photographs, but then I sat back and thought that as I haven't looked at them for so many years, it wasn't important then and even less now as with no children and no close family, who on earth would be interested in them? If I want to see them I can dig out the old albums, carefully compiled by my wonderfully OCD late wife, and get all upset that it's all over. Each to their own I suppose.
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Sad to hear that Jon. Hope you are coping in this difficult time. (y)
 
Organise digital photographs into a folder structure and copy them on a hard disk and make sure that you have a backup of all the photographs. If possible make the hard disk part of a home network so that all the computers in the house can connect to the hard disk. On your computer and on as many computers in the household as possible run the Photos screensaver and set the shuffle pictures option which will display the photos in a random order. Set your screensaver to come on after 1 minute of computer inactivity and set the screen to turn off after 1 hour.

I do this and I have over 15K superb memories randomly shown to me throughout the day.
 
We recently did the same thing. I bought 4 - A1 snap poster frames and my wife filled them with a collage of pics spanning 40 years. Now all fixed to the wall and looking great. A real trip down memory lane and right up to the present. The good thing is that we can open the frames at any time and replace pics as and when we please

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Sat one weekend and scanned about 150 good photos via an ordinary desktop scanner..... boring but glad i did.
 
We have ours on our google home hub, it’s on all the time and lovely to get such good memories all the time
 
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We have ours on our google home hub, it’s on all the time and lovely to get such good memories all the time
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Can the Google home hub load images from a hard drive which is part of your home network or does it only work with Google cloud storage?
 
Been doing something similar. Thinking of starting a blog of my life etc. Have found loads of old b/w school photies and put them on facebook, received loads of responses from ex school mates. Also had them colourised for free . Will put a couple on here soon to show results.
 

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