Are you gifting someone with a new digital camera this year? Cameras in the hands of children are wonderful, they take great photos. There is an expense attached though. Printing photos on your inkjet printer can be costly for paper and ink. Why not consider opening your own Heritage Makers publishing account. Then your children […]
How to Renumber Your Photos
Most digital cameras assign dates and letters and numbers on our photos. If you want to number or name your digital photos yourself, here is a great way to do it. Once your photos are on your computer and in a folder here are two ways or renaming your photos. How to Rename your photo […]
What To Do With Those Summer Photos
Did you take a trip with friends or family? There are several nice gifts that you can make with your photo’s. You can make a book for the Host as a thank you. Your book will have favorite images of things you enjoyed together. We have playing cards that also make great thank you gives, […]
Is It Time to Transfer Your Older Media?
Over the years we used to convert film to mini digital tapes and give those tapes to our customers along with their new DVD’s. We also used to digitize film and video productions directly to professional S-VHS tapes and make customer VHS tapes from those. If you have these master tapes in your possession, espectially […]
Have You Made Your Calendar Yet?
If you are anything like me you haven’t made this years calendar yet. No worries, some years it takes me until June to start this project. With Heritage Makers you can design your own calendar and have it start any month you want. If you use a template, once it is in your projects folder […]
Getting Your Scanning Done Right
We are more confident recommending that your photos and slides do not get mailed or sent out of State to be digitized. These are family photos that can never be replaced. If you are going to scan slides yourself, pick a good flatbed scanner with a good software program. Epson make good ones. Set your […]
How to Organize Photos in Your Computer
There are several ways to organize photos on a computer. Rename your photos by name, date, or event; place your photos in files that have a title that you will remember; or make a contact sheet of every photo you take and where it is. There is yet another quite simple way to ‘tag’ a […]
The Best Media to Preserve Your Film & Video
We are often asked to digitize customer’s photos, film and video tape directly to their hard drives. This can be done on request. However, is converting your media to digital files really protecting them on a Hard Drive? We continue to read what professionals recommend and we keep coming up with “the DVD”. If you […]
Is the Lens Frightening?
Really! I have been taking photos since the 1970s and I don’t recall ever traumatizing anyone in the process. This past year I managed to upset a large dog and a very small child. I was visiting friends in Canada and admired their beautiful dog. It was a nice sunny day so I called him […]
Interesting Old Documents
We have been scanning a lot of old family and business documents this past year. Old documents come in with some interesting binding techniques. I wonder when the paper clip was invented because these old papers that come in use a variety of methods to keep them together. Many people used straight pins, they actually […]