Escapees March-April 2023

Books for RVers By MARCELLA GAUTHIER #12371 from the bookshelf

Declutter Your Photo Life Curating, Preserving,

and preserving old photos, the collection will become one that is easy to maintain and share in the future. Adam Pratt is a wonderful teacher of photo orga nization, useful software and a dedicated lifetime photographer. From his fi rst camera where he would shoot one roll of fi lm in a week to his next camera and on to shooting one roll of fi lm in a day to recent days where he took up to 50,000 shots his fi rst year as a new father, Adam had a lot of photos to manage! However, he introduces a new word, “deduplication” which allows you to eliminate duplicate digital format information which would be very helpful in dealing with those 50,000 shots! Adam provides brands of deduplication software. After working for 22 years at Adobe on the Creative Cloud team, he founded Chaos to Memories where he helps people enjoy their collection by turning their photo chaos into precious memories they can enjoy

Organizing and Sharing ADAM PRATT • ROCKY NOOK INC 2022 • ISBN: 978-1-68198-875-7 PAPERBACK: $24.99 • KINDLE: $11.99

At this time of the year, after taking a lot of photos of recent family events, and staring at the disorganized mess, you may certain ly become overwhelmed. Starting when you

and share. Don’t waste any more time without this helpful book, it will be an adventure to wander through your family history and to enjoy putting together a photo- fi lled history. Even if you have already begun the process of organizing your collection, you will probably fi nd new information, hints and ways to do things better, especially with the use of new equipment and software. There is even software that allows metadata, such as keywords, to be embedded into videos. You will soon be skimming along like a professional video editor. In one of the chapters, Adam offers a lot of suggestions on preserving and restoring old photos

were young with your fi rst Brownie box camera photos and later inheriting previous generations’ collection of old photos is a task you might rather ignore. However, that leaves you with the anxiety of knowing that you should be doing something about it. Why not give your family a well-organized family photo graphic history? At the next family event you can present this wonderful gift which allows everyone to share and

to enjoy safe, accessible family photos. P hotographers and family historians know how powerfully photos can provide meaning, emotion and memory for viewers. But, where to start? Begin with this well-organized and comprehensive book by professional photo organizer, photographer and author, Adam Pratt. Adam provides a step-by-step work fl ow. In addition to simple organi zational procedures, he introduces image-organizing software such as Adobe Lightroom Classic. These new software and hardware tools and skills are easy to learn and use. Going from recent digital photos to gathering

from family albums and the assortment of loose photos stored in shoeboxes in the attic. Many old albums and storage methods can damage photos. So even if you are scanning old photos for the collection, you need to place the original photos in a new, safe environment. Finding old photos without names listed on the reverse or having no one left in the family to help you date the photos, he suggests looking for clues on dating them. This is a wonderful book to get you started. This book is easy to read and provides guidance to creating a family treasure. Get started now, you won’t regret it and your family will be overjoyed with the results of your efforts.

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