Scrapping old pictures

You can have them color photocopied onto good paper at a good copy shop. You DON'T want to reproduce them on a black and white copier. I've also seen good results with those photo copying/printing machines they have in many photo departments of drug stores etc.

Best of luck...what a treasure those shots are!

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Fiddy
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I have a problem.

As some of you know, I did a scrapbook (my first ever) of my mother's trip to the New England states in September/October 2001. I have an amazing number of old pictures to deal with, though. That means one scrapbook down and ????? to go.

When I was growing up way back when and long, long ago, we had only black and white photos, so I have tons of those to work with. Many of the pictures are a little fuzzy, but I know Mom would like them included, so I'll do that. Around 1960 (or so), we started using some color film - but we were really quite poor, so color was for special occasions only.

There were 4 kids in our family. My brother was killed in 1972, but he has a daughter who might - or might not - appreciate a scrapbook. My plan is to duplicate some of the pictures and probably make scrapbooks for my mother, my sisters, my niece, and myself. I don't want to do all these pictures as heritage-type pages, but I do want to make the pages look decent.

Do those of you who've scrapped black and whites have some good ideas for handling these pictures? I also have studio portraits of my brother and me as babies, but I don't plan to tell you how much before 1950 my baby picture was taken! ;-)

Arliss (in cool Bismarck, but we had nice rain yesterday and last night!)

By the way, you can see my one real effort here:

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Arliss

Very good ,Arliss. Looks like a lot of good times. I love that part of the country. Thank you for sharing.

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

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Sabrina

I went through my mother in laws photo album, plus my parents brought over a whack of old pictures, and I scanned them all. Then I uploaded them to Walmarts photolab and cropped them all into 5 x 7's and printed them. They're all glossy and some are a little blurry, but they turned out a lot better than I expected. I'm making albums for each of my kids. Eventually........

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Cleo

I used mostly photo corners on my old photos, in case some one might want a copy.

Teresa in MD

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Tazmadazz

That is a great idea, Teresa! You could also use corner adorners where all you have to do is slip the pictures in.

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M-C

I love scrapping black and white photos. I am working on our daughter's wedding book, all the pictures are b/w. You can see the layouts on my site:

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Linda B

Linda, I just looked at the wedding pictures. They are beautiful. I'm picking up the pictures from my daughter's wedding tomorrow. Can't wait to use some of your ideas. I just scrapped about five years worth of Easter photos, now I'm gathering supplies for weddings. Thanks for sharing. Sandy

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Sandy

I just worked with my sister at Christmas to make an album using old black-and-whites. The reproduction price was (to me) ridiculous, so I showed her how to use her scanner and printer to do it herself, since she has a good scanner and good inkjet printer.

For the scanning, sort the photos according to image darkness. Then scan a whole page of photos. Since they are similar in tone, you can use your software to tweak the contrast/brightness for the whole group. This is a lot faster than trying to do every photo individually. Scan using *color* settings, not black-and-white. You want to catch that sepia tone. (Your scanner may have a "greyscale" setting, but compare that to a color scan before you go too far.)

Buy glossy photo paper. It comes in 8.5 x 11 sheets for your printer. It is more expensive than plain paper, but lots less expensive than paying a photo lab. When you print the page of photos, pay attention to the settings -- be sure to choose the right type of paper, and use best quality. Also have a fairly new ink cartridge.

Cut apart with your favorite method -- straight or deckle scissors, paper trimmer, etc.

My sister says that I have created a monster (her) now that she can do this! :-)

Gina

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Gina Bull

About fifteen years ago (actually make that closer to twenty!) my mother borrowed some of my grandmother's photo collection including her wedding photos, put her SLR camera on a special tripod and loaded it with special sepia film, and reproduced the lot by individually framing and rephotographing each image... it took her DAYS to get them all done. Then she took them to the photo shop and got seven sets - one for each of her siblings. Oh how much easier things are nowadays!

It was a good thing she did too... the originals disappeared when my grandparents moved house, so the reproductions are all that anyone has to remember them by. :( ~Karen aka Kajikit Crafts, cats, and chocolate - the three essentials of life

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Karen AKA Kajikit

I think you did a great job! Thanks for sharing. I sometimes like the effect of b&w pictures on bright or pastel shaded paper, especially when matted on black or white cardstock. Not too crazy about b&w on patterned paper, but that's just me.

Judy, SA

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JK

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