How To Preserve Your Photo Album for Generations
Memories remind us of the choices we’ve made, the paths taken, and the experiences we’ve shared and enjoyed. They also facilitate the fond recall of the people we’ve loved and lost. Luxurious and large photo albums can help you tell the story of a lifetime, and preserve the happiest of memories for future generations of your family.
Photo Power
Throughout generations, people have lovingly preserved and treasured high-quality photo prints of their family members. Those wishing to leave behind a legacy for their family, as well as proof of their existence, have relied on photo albums to tell their unique life stories for decades. The reason for this is that physical photographs that you can touch and smell have the power to evoke memories on a deeper level than the modern, instant digital format can.
If you’ve ever looked at a photo that was snapped during your childhood years, and instantly felt like you’ve been transported back in time, you’ve experience the power of photos. A photograph can help you retrieve information that your mind acquired through physical experience in life, and that your brain archived for later use.
To preserve cherished memories for other people to also enjoy, it’s important to store and preserve your snaps in large photo albums that contain plenty of pages to display the beautiful and striking images captured during milestone events and everyday experiences.
Choosing The Perfect Album
While many photo albums appear to look the same on the outside, once you open them up they can tell a different story. The perfect album for preserving photos for generations should ideally be of the finest quality that you can afford. Investment photo albums can be softcover hardcover, or fabric covered, and can include as many high quality paper pages as you want.
If you prefer, you can choose a photo book that has a contemporary layflat design, so that your photography display flaunts a stylish magazine style look. Once you’ve chosen your perfect photo album, you can also select a curated layout template that you can customise with your own design.
As the covers of your large photo albums set the mood and tone for the appealing displays arranged inside, it’s important to take your time choosing the most memorable wow factor photographs in your collection to showcase on the front. Alternatively, you can reserve your favourite snaps for the opening pages, and embellish the album covers with titles or monogrammed initials, or a family crest design.
Selecting Photos For Display
Next, you’ll need to select the best photos to display and preserve for longevity. Don’t be surprised if picking out your favourite images takes considerable time. The most enjoyable part of organising a photo album usually involves taking many trips down Memory Lane!
Once you’ve sorted the photos into organised Display, Store and Dispose piles, you can focus your attention on selecting display worthy images that are sequential. Arranging the photographs in a chronological order helps to tell the story of your life.
Creating Attractive Displays
To make your collection of favourite photographs look visually attractive, it’s best to arrange them like a pro.
The easiest way to achieve this is to create a chronologically ordered display of snaps. The visual story will be easiest to follow if you recreate the sequence of how the event occurred via the medium of photos. Avoid overcrowding the pages with too many images. Instead, allow plenty of white space to frame the snaps that you’ve chosen to showcase.
Creating variety in your layouts helps to bring your story to life. Different page layouts can emphasise your photos in unique ways. You can feature a stunning large or small single photo on a full page, or multiple snaps of the same size. Double page spreads are great for panoramic images, or photographs that relate to each other.
If you have multiple photo books, you can choose to theme each one in your collection – milestone events, family holidays, weddings, births, random stuff etc. Future generations of your family will be impressed by your tenacity and delighted to be able to view different aspects of your life, and a time gone by.
Add Personal Touches
Personal touches are what makes any photo book extra special and worth preserving. If you’re taking the time to curate a collection of your favourite images, and creating a legacy for your family in the process, it’s also worth adding personalisation that elevates your displays.
Featuring personalised text offers a lovely way to provide future generations with valuable information about what’s going on in the images they are viewing. You can add funny captions and comments to bring the images to life. If you have paper mementoes, like a ticket stub, map, flyer or leaflet, they can also effectively add interest to your creative displays.
Writing in the names of the people featured in each photo, along with dates, place names and anecdotes will help to jog memories, or inform future generations of your clan about their family history.
Preserving your favourite happy memories, in photographs that are beautifully displayed in stylish large photo albums, is a creative project that will give you many hours of enjoyment. While you’re curating your collection of images for legacy preservation, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to immerse yourself in long forgotten memories, and to relive the special moments in life that you dearly treasure and cherish.
