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How to Scan Photos: A Simple Guide to Preserve Your Memories
You probably have a stash of old photo albums lurking somewhere—but scanning them isn’t on your radar, because it seems too time-consuming or technical. Don’t worry—this easy step-by-step guide will show you how easy it is to scan photos, preserve your family history, and create a digital archive that you can enjoy, and your future…
Read MoreScan Old Photos – And How to DIY
We all have cherished family albums that we’d like to preserve and share – but lack the time or skills to scan old photos. This how-to guide can help. Most of us have hundreds of old photos tucked away—loose prints, albums, or framed pictures. These are reminders of our lives, slowly fading away. If you…
Read MoreScanning photos? Don’t forget image metadata
Digital photos captured with your iPhone or DSLR camera contain a lot of embedded information. This includes date and time, location, pixel dimensions, focal length, aperture, exposure – and much more. This is called EXIF metadata, and you can easily check it for any photo. Open it with the Preview app on your Mac; click…
Read MoreSnipTag for Batch Cropping Scanned Photos
SnipTag for macOS features a powerful tool named Snip for batch cropping dozens of scanned photos at a time. When you’re working on a big scanning project, it can save you countless hours of grunt work. Like any tool, Snip must be used correctly to produce the desired results. This short, illustrated tutorial provides all…
Read MoreFamily Bibles as a Genealogy Resource
Family Bibles during the Victorian era often included extra pages at the end known as flyleaves. Families used these to record births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. These records are especially valuable to genealogists today. Family Bibles were also known as family record books, remembrance books, or registers. They became treasured heirlooms, frequently passed down through…
Read MoreSnipTag app for Mac – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
SnipTag FAQ is a compilation of users’ questions. If you have a question that isn’t answered here, click Help > Contact in the app for prompt assistance. We may also add your question to SnipTag FAQ so it can help others. This document contains the following sections: Getting Started Batch Cropping Scanned Photos Adding Captions…
Read MoreWhy Edit Image Metadata (and How)
Why bother to edit image metadata? Short answer: To make your photos easy findable, and, if you are a professional photographer, to assert your ownership rights over your work. We all have thousands of photos. Gigabytes worth of digital images in our computers, smartphones, cloud accounts and external drives. It’s a flood of our own…
Read MoreIs Your Photo Collection a Mess? Read these Tips from a Photo Organizer.
Certified photo organizer Caroline Guntur specializes in bringing order to peoples’ stashes of memories. Besides, she is also an educator who runs e-courses and workshops on organizing. Below, some excerpts from her in-depth review of SnipTag app for Mac. One of the most common complaints I hear about post-processing from clients, students, and readers of…
Read MoreHow to Save, Store and Scan Photos: 7 Easy Tips
In a Reader’s Digest article, Juliana LaBianca explains how to preserve old family photos. Summary below (Plus our suggestions on how to scan photos): As printed photos age, they can fade, get brittle or acquire color casts. They demand, but seldom get, good tender loving care. You need to know how to keep the originals, and…
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