Digitizing Photo Albums: The Gift of a Lifetime, Part 1
Channel: KOJO
Date: 2024-02-16

The Gift of a Lifetime
This is the first of a three-part series that is a step-by-step guide for scanning your digital photo albums.

As we get older, it may become necessary to help our parents downsize. One of the realities of moving into Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, or to a smaller home, is that there won't be much room to display photos, and there certainly won't be room to store bulky photo albums and scrapbooks! You may find yourself in the position of culling out their unneeded items. You can’t just throw them away! We've got the solution...Digitize.

There is no better gift for your parents or loved ones than presenting them with a digital file of all their treasured family photo albums. Store pictures on a thumb drive or external drive to be viewed in a digital photo frame, and feel no guilt when tossing their old photo albums.  Keep your parents connected to their treasured photos in a way that allows them to enjoy them on a daily basis, not just once in a blue moon.

Whether your goal is to help your parents downsize or you simply want to give them with the best gift they will ever receive, you can't go wrong with a digital photo frame that automatically displays their entire photo collection. With a little effort and planning on your part, you can keep your parents connected to the people they love the most by giving them the gift of a lifetime, a digital photo frame!

The photo scanner we chose for this project was the Epson Perfection V600, but most scanners operate similarly. Follow along for the best practices to use when scanning your photo albums. Get started today!

WATCH NEXT: Digitizing Photo Albums, Part 2
https://youtu.be/a1FcqN1VEjc

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:35 Digitize
3:02 Scanning Service
4:29 Phone App
6:00 Flatbed Scanner
8:24 Organize
9:55 Tag Duplicates
10:30 Be Selective
11:18 Toss It!
12:32 Create a Naming Convention
13:39 Scanner Settings (Part 1) 

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Glide Gear OH100 Professional Metal Overhead Table Top Mount
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Lamicall Gooseneck Phone Holder
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Epson Perfection v600 Photo Scanner
https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-Negative-Document-Scanner/dp/B002OEBMRU?th=1 

Epson FastFoto FF-680W
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