Brown-Harano Photography at the Lincoln County Historical Museum
Friday, 10 January 2020
Our client, Jim, found some negatives of his ancestors in a collection from Brown-Harano Photography at the Lincoln County Historical Museum in Nebraska. Maybe they have negatives of your family too.
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What are your photos saying
Thursday, 04 April 2019
This common cliché has it all wrong. Otherwise we would look at stacks of old photos and tell our children and grandchildren just who is in the photo and what was special about that day. The photos you take today can have the same problem when they are admired a few generations from now if
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So many photos, so little time
Thursday, 04 April 2019
So many photos, so little time. Photo Preservation Another year has come and gone and now you have another year’s worth of photos that you haven’t done anything with! The mound of photos or list of photo files can be quite overwhelming. I suggest that you choose a manageable sized project; 2006, Christmas 2006, family
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Scanning slides 101
Thursday, 04 April 2019
Resolute resolution At Leave A Legacy the slide scanner never stops. You would be amazed at the number of people with a number of slides that come to our door. When scanning anything, the most important variable is the resolution. The units of measuring resolution are dots per inch or dpi. The more dots per
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Removing photos stuck in albums
Thursday, 04 April 2019
Magnetic Albums….seemed like a great idea at the time…but boy, were we wrong! Do you remember them? They are the ones with a sticky piece of cardboard that you laid your photos on and covered with a clear protective sheet. We now know that these were not a safe place for our precious photos. The
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Pixel Pointers
Thursday, 04 April 2019
A pixel is a term for a single point in a graphic image. The term was created from shortening “picture element” and using the common abbreviation “pix” for “picture”. The quality of a photo can be expressed in pixels per inch (ppi) or dots per inch (dpi). They are equivalent, meaning, a photo with 72
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Better photographer, loose weight & a cleaner house
Thursday, 04 April 2019
It may not sound possible but you can become a better photographer, loose weight and have proof of a cleaner house all by carefully cropping your photos. Professional photographers are great at centering photos and getting good close-ups. By cropping your photos either by cutting the old fashioned way or by cropping on the computer
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Memory cards: how big & is there an adaptor that fits my brain?
Thursday, 04 April 2019
Memory cards: they are the often the size of a postage stamp, they store 100’s of photos, but how big of a card do I need and is there an adaptor available that fits my brain? I don’t know about you but I could really use some added memory in my brain. Unfortunately, they have
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