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Post by 505scrapper on Jul 27, 2014 4:09:40 GMT
This wasn't while scrapbooking, but it still breaks my heart. I had these two 8x10 photos of my parents from when they were in the Navy that were taken back in the 60s. I have the same photos in smaller size that are black and white, but these two 8x10 were done with color and you can tell it was added in but they came out really beautiful. Originally they belonged to my parents, but I confiscated them when I moved out (they were not being displayed at the time). I had them in these really pretty frames and had them hanging. My parents then eventually moved in with me and one day while I was at work, my mom decided to redecorate and move pictures around. She wanted to put her picture in a different frame. Problem was, her picture was 8x10 and the frame was 5x7 with an oval shape. Can you see where this is going? She cut the 8x10 to fit the oval shape. When I saw what she had done, I literally cried. It hurts worse now that she is gone, but what can I do. I at least still have it cut down but it will always have to be in an oval shaped frame. Ouch, i want to cry with you. Can you scan the cut photo (5x7 is still a good size to work with) and manipulate it digitally so that you could print it again in a rectangular size? I haven't tried, but I might just do that and see if it works. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 5:16:39 GMT
I would never scrap the original heritage photos. They are not replaceable. I speak from a genealogist's point of view. Not only might I someday want a copy for something else, but I never know when a "long-lost" cousin and I will find each other and want to share copies of photos. If it has been cropped and scrapped I would not have it to share. Just my point of view.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 10:15:06 GMT
Please do not glue your heritage photos to a greeting card with Aleene's Tacky Glue. I have one picture of my Grandmother. She died in the 1940's. It's glued on a greeting card with Aleene's. I cried so hard. The person that gave it to me I gave her acid-free glues and pens. I begged her not to use her card making items on heritage photo's. Of course she told me I am stupid and she knows better. I waste my money on that cr*p. Her words not mine. I almost forgot to add the relative that did this put the photo on the card a few weeks ago. It wasn't in a time period where she didn't know any better.
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Post by meganliane on Jul 27, 2014 20:20:31 GMT
I think I have cut some of my high school pictures in odd shapes when I first started scrapbooking but not heritage photos - I always used photo corners if I used originals of those as I didn't really consider those "mine".
Good point about why have a copy if the point is to get photos out of boxes and into scrapbooks - I think I just would like to have a digital copy that is backed up in case anything ever happened to the original.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 28, 2014 21:54:46 GMT
I would never scrap the original heritage photos. They are not replaceable. I speak from a genealogist's point of view. Not only might I someday want a copy for something else, but I never know when a "long-lost" cousin and I will find each other and want to share copies of photos. If it has been cropped and scrapped I would not have it to share. Just my point of view. If scrapbooking is done with the goal pf preservation, it is the perfect place for original photos and the stories that go with them. There can be no cropping. Photo corners or temporary adhesives used sparingly are needed. You can still remove photos or scan and make copies. I have taught a class on photo preservation geared toward pre 1970's and photos before the 110 camera. Using archival page protectors, and acid and lignin free products made for photo safe preservation is one of the best ways to enjoy the photos, keep them out of light and air, keep them free of fingerprints and enjoy them. |
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Post by Lori McMud on Jul 29, 2014 3:38:20 GMT
My sister and I are a year apart. My mom took our studio baby portraits and cut them down so she could put them into one 8x10 frame. And she scotch taped them in, so not only are they chopped up, they have yellowed tape stuck to them.
I really wish she would have sprung for another frame.
Lori
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 4:51:25 GMT
I would never scrap the original heritage photos. They are not replaceable. I speak from a genealogist's point of view. Not only might I someday want a copy for something else, but I never know when a "long-lost" cousin and I will find each other and want to share copies of photos. If it has been cropped and scrapped I would not have it to share. Just my point of view. If scrapbooking is done with the goal pf preservation, it is the perfect place for original photos and the stories that go with them. There can be no cropping. Photo corners or temporary adhesives used sparingly are needed. You can still remove photos or scan and make copies. I have taught a class on photo preservation geared toward pre 1970's and photos before the 110 camera. Using archival page protectors, and acid and lignin free products made for photo safe preservation is one of the best ways to enjoy the photos, keep them out of light and air, keep them free of fingerprints and enjoy them. This would be a sensible way to scrap heritage photos without making a copy. Sounds like a great class! |
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Post by TracieClaiborne on Jul 29, 2014 7:49:04 GMT
I can totally relate to the OP - I've seen it happen so many times. I mutilated my son's baby pics and coluzzled my wedding album to death, but I am correcting these as much as possible. But seeing someone hack up those wonderful heritage photos is an abomination to me. Whenever someone says, "Scrapbook they way you want, there are no rules," I always want to yell, "Yes there are! There are rules!! No mutilating original heritage photos!!" You made "coluzzled" a verb. That made me LOL! You are right - that is the number one rule! No mutilation! Wow. I also would have to say something now. I've never seen someone actually doing it - only their album in which they had mutilated precious photos in the past. What puzzles me is that I also tried silhouetting when I started but I only did it once and I went, "Um, nope, that looks horrible and ruins the photo." It's like people just followed blindly along, doing whatever the people at the crop with them were doing. You know they didn't come up with that on their own! I blame Creative Memories for all the deckle edge craziness. My Mom cut up a bunch of my childhood photos of which there were hardly any to begin with. I wanted to beat her. She also THREW AWAY a ton of photos of my Dad's side of the family for which I never will forgive her and she now knows was wrong. She hates his family but they are still my family! *sigh* |
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