Tips on Preserving Memories

Documenting a football career

A recent interesting project that came into Leave A Legacy was a lady who was working on a shadow box honoring her husband’s football career. He passed away a few years ago but he had kept quite a scrapbook of his football career from high school through college and the pros. She just needed our help to reprint a few photos in just the right size.

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Altering your Photo and Video Memories: Unwanted individuals

Options abound for modifying or repairing your photo and video memories. You may want to have someone removed from an image, be it a former girlfriend, husband or a stranger lurking in the background. This can be more easily done with a still photo of course. I once replaced an ex-boyfriend with a bush in a large family photo. We even modified the images from an old 8mm movie film. The client was fortunate that the unwanted individual was on the edge of the frame. We made clips at the beginning and end of where he appeared and then adjusted that segment over to the right which cut him off and left the rest of the people showing. The image at right is of a photo of a car that was identical to our client,

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Preserving Childhood –Ideas for a Photo Series

We thought we’d share some ideas about how to set up a series of photos which illustrate a larger theme. Think of it as ‘storytelling’ with images that all share a pre-planned purpose. We’ll focus on creating an intentional photo series about children growing up – perhaps all too quickly. That’s the theme. Now what

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