There is nothing more heartbreaking than to talk to someone who has spent hours and dollars digitizing their photo collection, only to find out that the files are too small or too low-quality for archival purposes.
They may look fine on Facebook, but when printed in a family history book or newspaper article, they will look blurry or pixelated. In many cases, the originals have already been sent back to their original owners or worse, destroyed, making proper re-scanning impossible.
Don’t let this happen to you! Here are five “musts” for properly creating a digital archive of your family’s precious photos and documents, in a nutshell:….
