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Old Photos and Slides: the Fun of Going Digital
Overview
Slides fare somewhat better, since they are usually protected in circular trays that house anywhere from 20-140 slides. It is difficult, however, to find a specific slide without having to load up the projector and go through each slide. And the once popular individual slide view finders that were manufactured in the 20th century are fast disappearing.
Digital Transferral
With the advent of digital cameras that are now extremely popular and affordable, families for the first time find that they have significant photo and slide collections in multiple formats: those images that typically pre-date the 1990s, and those taken during or after the 90s, when more families turned to digital media. It’s time to open the door to enjoying and sharing your older photos and slides by ensuring all of the older formats are transferred to digital.
This process uses equipment to scan each image and produce a digital version without ever actually touching the photo or slide, so the original is never harmed. Specialized software enables the now-digitized image to be restored and enhanced, fixing such problems as red-eye, scratches on the original, or distorted colors.
Benefits
Once in digital form, there are four clear benefits to the new format:
1. Organize, combine and label – It’s easy to arrange and identify your transferred images once they are in digital format. Moving them around is as simple as moving them around on your PC screen. And you can combine all of your memories, both pre-1990s and post-1990s, into one digital collection of DVDs or storing online. Say goodbye to boxes and carousels that take up space in the garage.
2. Make them look better – It’s a fact that the old photos and slides we grew up with do not improve with time, but rather, lose their quality. With digital technology, you can have them restored to their original color and vibrancy.
3. Preservation – Natural disasters aside, we’ve seen what happens just with the simple passing of time – photos are unorganized and unlabeled, remaining a mystery to future generations. Storing the images in a digital format preserves them for generations.
4. Enjoy and share – What good are memories if no one can ever enjoy them? If you never view the photos in the boxes, look through the albums, or fire up the slide projector, those images are lying dormant. You can do fun things with digital photos:
a. Build photo books online
b. Produce photo calendars and other family momentos as gifts
c. Use them as revolving “wallpaper” (background screens) on your computer
d. Send them to an iPod or mobile phone for your kids or grandkids
e. Create DVD slideshows for special occasions, like a birthday, anniversary or graduation
It’s not only fun but easy today to convert old photos and slides to a digital format. You can join the digital revolution!
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Scrapbooking ideas and websites……………………….?
hey i was wondering if anyone knows of a good store or website or even you own ideas for making a scrapbook i am just starting and i want to make one for my bff and what we have done like kalahari and other things like that so if there is a scrapbooking site or a great tools that you use for scrapbooking i would like to know…………
thanks in advance……………. :@)
[Long] Close friend reliving her son’s infancy through my son and I…maybe starting to get alittle delusional?
My son is 5 months old.
My dear friend has a son who is 3 years old.
We are so close of friends that when our leases at our old apartments were up, we both decided to move and share a duplex condominium.
I am a happily married SAHM who takes college courses from the home.
She is single mother who works full time.
My husband and I watch her son a couple nights a week when she works the midnight shift (her son has a bed in our son’s nursery).
She watches our son for us a couple hours about once a month so my husband and I can go on a date-night.
We’ve always had a great deal of trust for one another, and tend to agree on most of the major parenting issues.
However, the older my son gets, the more apparent it is to me that perhaps my friend is alittle delusional:
She seems to think my son and her son are the same baby.
For example:
My son could hold a bottle two months earlier than her son could. She refused to acknowledge this.
My son could also roll over a month earlier than her son could. She refused to acknowledge this as well.
She makes statements like "our boys are so alike: they smile the same, they were the same age when they started holding the bottle…"
And when I correct her and say "no, my son held is bottle earlier than that", she seems to get upset and change the subject
Yesterday when we were at her house she kept trying to get my son to stand up on his own. Her son was able to stand up at a very early age and she is insistant that if her son did it, my son must be able to as well. So for five minutes she kept holding him up and getting upset when he would bend his knees rather than put weight on his feet. I had to reach over and take my son away from her, she was starting to upset him.
And its not just uncontrollable milestonest that she gets upset over. Its also small parenting decisions. I dress my son in separates (t-shirts and shorts) whereas she always dressed her son in one-piece jumpsuits. I dress my son in bold colors, she prefered to dress her son in pastels.
More than once she has dragged out her son’s old baby clothes and tried to push me into dressing my son in her favorite outfits.
I wouldn’t mind taking hand-me down baby clothes in most situations, however I don’t feel it would be a smart idea in this situation, simply because of how she pushes it.
Also, feeding. She gave her son rice cereal at 3 months old, she really pushed me to do the same for my son. I made the decision to wait until 6 months and start on Sweet Potato and this upset her.
She found breastfeeding to be very easy and did so until her son was 9 months, only stopping because she thought it was creepy to nurse a mobile child.
I had hoped to breastfeed my son for at least a year, this upset her because (again) she thinks its creepy to nurse a mobile child. When breastfeeding wasn’t working out and I decided to wean at 6 months, she got upset because she made it to 8 so in her mind, so should I.
Even things as silly as loosing the baby weight: she went on a diet to loose her weight. A diet isn’t fesiable for me since we eat our meals as a family and I’m not going to waste time and money cooking separate meals for my husband and I. So I prefer to just eat healthy and exercise the weight off. She is upset that I have the time to exercise since, as a full time working mom, she never had the time to exercise.
We both wanted to scrapbook our son’s firsts.
My son is 5 months old and has a 40 page scrapbook of his time in the hospital, his first easter, his first trip to the zoo, his first family vacation, etc..
Her son is 3 years old and she still has all the materials to make the scrapbook sitting in her closet un-touched. She gets very upset that I had the time to make my scrapbook and she didn’t. (Which again is understandable since she is a full time single mother and I am a SAHM with a very supportive husband.)
All of these behaviors have really crept up on me slowly.
I had always heard her say how "every baby is different, they hit milestones at different ages" so I know that she understands that every baby is different. I also know she understands that everyone has to use the parenting techniques that work for them.
However she has really changed since my son was born. She used to be open-minded and rational. Now she isn’t.
She told me on more than one occassion that she is "relieving her son’s infancy through my son and I" which didn’t creep me out before but now, due to her change in behavior, its starting to.
I know that she loved the baby stage more than the toddler stage. I know that she is upset because she desperiately wants another child but doesn’t want to have more than one child without a father in their lives.
My husband agrees with me that some of her behavior is starting to seem delusional.
(there are more unusal behaviors than I have meantioned, but this post is already too long as it is)
* I have already decided to seek a new babysitter for my husband’s and my date-nights, since I no longer feel I can trust her alone with my son.
I am just wondering if this is common behavior, to relive your child’s infancy through friend’s babies? Or is this strange behavior?
And if you were me, how would you handle the situation?
Basic Tools to create a beautiful scrapbooking layout
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Did i do the right thing??? EASY POINTS!!!?
at happened this morning
the boys were playing with the scrapbook material
( which was the plastic cover thingy)
and i told them to stop but like always they didn’t listen to me
so i told my teacher and two of my classmates heard me say it
after a while i went to the library then i saw my two classmates who knew i told teacher
( lets call them mary and may)
Mary and May went up to me and said all the boys are mad at you for telling teacher
at first i was shocked then a little guilty…….
when i went to my classroom some of the boys looked mad
then one of my boy classmate said :" how dare you tell teacher"
then one of my other boy classmate said " who told teacher"
i raised my hand and said it was me
he got really mad but my friend protected me by fighting with him
after a while we had our computer class
i only have one friend that is a boy who is not mad at me
he said "ALL of the boys are blaming you"
after that i started to cry
was what i did right??
