Leave A Legacy is beginning a new adventure into social media. We’ll be sharing stories from some of the interesting projects that come through our door. They will make you laugh and may make a tear come to your eye. Our blogs, posts and video clips will show you new ideas on projects you might want to consider doing with your own photos, videos and audio memories. We’ll have a place for discussions and sharing ideas.
Videos will demonstrate tips, tricks and techniques that all relate to preserving your memories. We have a passion for preserving memories and social media will give us a great venue for encouragement and inspiration.
Creative DVD Slideshows
Did you know that Leave A Legacy can use your digital photo files (jpg files) to produce a DVD that will play on a DVD player and most modern computers?
Of course, if your photos are prints or slides we can make them digital for you.
The first step is to make your photo, artwork or logo digital by scanning. We can also use digital photos that are emailed to us or brought in to our studio.
The next step is to choose the item(s) that you would like an image transferred on to. Items include:
After a disaster, like the tornados that hit us a few weeks ago, we are foremost thankful for the safety of our family and neighbors. What you hear people say while looking upon the wreckage of their home is that, of all of the valuables lost or damaged, what we value the most are our photo, video and audio memories.
After you return home, you will wish your trip would have lasted forever, but you’re sure you’ll remember all the good times you had for the rest of your life. But unless you have a photographic memory, some of them will fade away. We suggest recording all the special – and even some of what may seem like more mundane at the time – happenings in a travel journal. Here are some ideas on what you may want to record to make putting together a digital scrapbook following your trip quicker and easier and help you to thoroughly recall all the fun you had:
Last month we shared ideas on how to document memories of your summer vacation. This month we turn to preserving those school-day memories, whether for your children, grandchildren or even yourself. How you go about this project depends on what stage your kiddos are at. If they are just starting school, then you can "do it as you go." If they are about to graduate from high school, then try "categorize and conquer."
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It’s a cliché that’s all too true: “Children grow up way too fast.” This series of articles will give you a variety of ideas of how to preserve all those childhood memories and document how they change through the years.
This month we will look at Journaling. Journaling is a very effective method for preserving all the funny and unexpected moments of childhood. In order to transform this from a great idea to a realized ritual a few things are necessary. You need a time, a place and the tools.
Opportunities abound for you to capture, share, give, and make memories over the holidays as your family gathers together.
Capture: Ask the family elders…or everyone for that matter…to document some memory from their life. Whether it was grandpa’s years of training a trick horse, grandma’s stories of how she raised 4 young children while grandpa was away during the war. An Aunt recording all of her delicious recipes for the family to create a book and enjoy it for generations. My own task for this Christmas is to encourage my Grandma Reta (92 years old) to do a voice or video recording of her reciting the poems that she has written and are preserved in her mind only. She is resistant to doing it because she looks so wrinkled and her voice is shaky. I will give her the equipment to do it (likely just using audio since it will be easier for her to do on her own). I will tell her how valuable it will be for generations to come and tell her examples of what other families have captured from their relatives.
We have our hands all over them all of the time but when is the last time you cleaned your…..mouse?
We are of course talking about the mouse that is part of your computer. The older type of mouse has a small ball on the bottom. As the ball moves, your pointer on the computer moves. If you have the old ball type mouse, find the little lock on the bottom. You should twist it to release the ball. Using a rag dipped in some alcohol, wipe the ball and get the dirt and grime off of it. On the inside of the mouse, there are two small bars. Wipe the bars with the alcohol dipped rag as well to remove any gunk on them. Finally, put the ball back into the mouse and then you will be amazed at how much smoother it will work!
Movie film length is determined by the diameter (distance across) of the film on the reel. Many of the films that come to the Leave A Legacy studios are 3 inches across and on blue plastic reels. These are 50 feet long when they are full. The attached chart shows the length of film on different sizes of reels.
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