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April 13, 2017August 28, 2025Archive and Backup, Digitize and PreserveBy Julie Kessler

What Should I Do with All My Slides and Photo Negatives?

When I help clients go through their prints to get their photo collections organized, we will often find negatives and slides mixed in with their prints. My clients usually ask me, “What should I do with these? Should I transfer them all over to digital format? How do I do that? Then what should I do with the original slides and negatives, if I digitize everything?” These are complicated questions, and the answers I give my clients always depend on a lot of factors. In this post, I’m going to give you some tips about digitizing and organizing your slides […]

April 2, 2017August 28, 2025Archive and Backup, Digital Photo Organizing, Digitize and Preserve, Photo AlbumsBy Julie Kessler

What (Exactly) Does a Photo Manager Do?

Photo management used to be called photo organizing and is a relatively new field. Many people have questions about traditional pictures, film, and memorabilia, along with digital photos and videos. If you’re thinking of hiring a photo manager, what’s the best way to find the right one for you?

March 1, 2017August 26, 2026Celebrations, Digitize and Preserve, Photo Albums, Storytelling, VacationsBy Julie Kessler

10 Things I Love About My Photo Organizing Clients

Last week I published a post on why I love my job as a photo organizer, and I promised you a second part to that post. My wonderful clients are one of the biggest reasons I adore my job — so this week I wanted to dedicate an entire post to articulating all the reasons my clients are special to me.. Ready for some big-time gushing? Here we go! 1. My Clients Love to Travel. One of the many reasons someone might hire a photo organizer is to help them manage and display the photos they take when they’re traveling. […]

January 29, 2017August 28, 2025Digital Photo Organizing, Digitize and Preserve, Print Photo OrganizingBy Julie Kessler

How to (Finally) Tame Your Photo Mess

We’re headed toward February, and hopefully by now you’re hard at work fulfilling some of your New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you feel motivated to take care of some of the clutter in your life this year – including household, calendar, and photo clutter! After a busy holiday season, you’ve probably got a lot of disorganized photos on a bunch of different devices. There are tons of opportunities to take great photos during the holiday season, including photos of presents you want to buy, holiday decor you’re considering putting up in your house, holiday meals you ate, and fun gatherings with […]

November 28, 2016August 28, 2025Celebrations, Digitize and Preserve, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

How to Create a Family Recipe Book

My husband Tom and I got married 33 years ago, and to this day, I treasure one of the gifts we received at our wedding. This gift was a recipe book – compiled by my sister, in her beautiful handwriting – that includes recipes of favorite dishes from both sides of our family. This book contains everything from appetizers to holiday meals, and it’s become one of my go-to reference books during our 3+ decades of marriage. My sister called it “The Keepsake Recipe Collection,” and it is one of my most special (and most treasured) possessions. Back in 1983, […]

November 12, 2016August 26, 2026Digitize and Preserve, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

9 Questions to Ask Before You Pick a Company to Convert Your Home Movies

A few years ago, I unknowingly made a BIG mistake with my home movies. I was looking for a simple, inexpensive option for converting my family’s home movies. I wanted to go through the conversion process myself, so I could make educated recommendations to future clients who needed to convert their own movies. I recruited a college student who purchased some basic scanning equipment from a local store, then gave him instructions on how to do the conversion. I paid him to convert our home movies and copy them onto DVDs. Boy, do I wish I had known what I […]

October 31, 2016August 28, 2025Digitize and Preserve, Memories and TributesBy Julie Kessler

What You Really Need to Know About Converting Your Home Movies

Viewing home movies can make us feel like we’ve got access to a magical time machine. Home movies can help us remember some of our very earliest memories, and let us recall the great characteristics of loved ones who are no longer with us. Movies play an important role in our family legacy by giving us visual AND audible reminders of our memories. In many ways, they’re even more powerful and personal than still photographs, because they help us relive moments, and remember the most vivid details of those events. In her book Get “Reel” About Your Home Movie Legacy […]