Maureen A. Taylor, author of Family Photo Detective, provides all the information you need to care for your family photograph collection.
She outlines in straightforward steps how to add value to your home collection using the methods that conservators and photo curators use everyday! You’ll learn how to:
- Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection
- Take care of all your photos going forward so that damage is a thing of the past
- Preserve your digital images—for you and future generations
- Select a conservator to repair damaged photos and protect them from more deterioration
- Select a restoration expert to restore damaged photos.
- Learn simple restoration fixes you can do at home.
- Understand the importance of metadata and how you can use it to preserve your family photo stories
- Properly handle cased images such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes
- Explore techniques to share your images
- Take advantage of low-cost alternatives to traditional photo preservation techniques
- Protect your color images and how to restore the colors at home.
Do today what may be too late to do tomorrow. Preserve your family photographs now—and capture memories that will last a lifetime.
