Introduction

Has this happened to you? You’re looking through a cluttered drawer and as you reach into the back you find an old photo. It’s small and tattered, but as soon as you pull it out the memories come flooding back. You pause for a moment to remember who is in the photo and where it was taken. Most of us do not have a photographic memory—but we do have actual photographs that have frozen the time of our family and community history. These images are our memory treasures, and they deserve to be cared for and shared with family and friends as prints, in email attachments, and on social media.

Currently, the most popular camera is your smartphone, and the convenience of a phone camera to take and share pictures has changed the actual experience ...

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