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Making Your Pictures Last Forever
« on: May 31, 2007, 06:12:10 PM »
By Rosie Lombardi

Software and hardware that become obsolete in a few years means shoe boxes stored in a closet may be okay for your treasured pictures.

To ease this process, Stahl has a few common-sense tips. Consumers concerned about archiving image files should stick to open file formats such as TIFF. While proprietary formats such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and Photoshop PSD files may be ubiquitous today, these will require proprietary software to open and access them in the future. "PDF may not necessarily be a risk, but a rule of thumb is to stay away from proprietary formats if possible," he says.

Since consumers must bite the bullet and migrate their images eventually, there is no need for long-lived storage media. Stahl says they should use good quality storage media in use today. "DVD-R and CD-R are both recommended for the preservation of digital images. CD-R has been around a long time and is fairly stable, although DVD-R is kind of replacing it."

Consumers should also manage the files by metatagging them with descriptors about what they are, who's in them and so on, just like grandma did. And they should, of course, back up their files on hard drives and disks. "Some put them on the web and blogs and, technically, that's a backup copy. It's not a bad strategy, but it's not really in a format that's easy to access, and there's no guarantee the site will always be there," says Stahl.

A related option is to do the consumer equivalent of outsourcing the problem to a trustworthy company. Eastman Kodak Co., for example, offers an online storage service at Kodakgallery.com. The site has over one million users, and is geared towards professional and semi-professional photographers, says Craig McGowan, worldwide product marketing manager for Kodakgallery.com. "You have a company maintaining the archive for you, and that's a great way to future-proof your photos," he says, pointing out that Kodak will look after backup and migration strategies behind the scenes to maintain its subscribers' images on the website.

McGowan warns that many of the "free" photo storage sites proliferating on the web may have a big potential cost. "You want to ensure you're doing business with a company that's around for the long haul for precious family photos," he says. "You get what you pay for. If your pictures have value then you have to be willing to invest in the future."

While neither Stahl nor McGowan suggest a return to analogue photography, they both agree low-tech paper archives are still viable. "As much as I'm in the tech business, I think low-tech solutions are still great," says McGowan. "Believe it or not, a shoe box in a closet with the right environmental conditions is alright."

source: www.pcworld.ca

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Re: Making Your Pictures Last Forever
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2007, 11:11:14 AM »
Sajop na forever. Kay ngano? pangotana mo kay ngano beh. kay Ngano man lagi. Kay dili man ta forever mabuhi - sa heaven or hell lang na forever.

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