Author / Adam Pratt
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Square Photo Books
Most photo books are rectangular, but with decades of experience in photography and design, the photo books we design for our clients are always…
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Negatives in the wrong order?
Most film cameras load and shoot film in order from frame 1 to frame 24 or 36. That means each frame was exposed and…
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Scanning Unusual Photo Formats
Our clients bring us familiar photo formats including prints, slides, and negatives, but they also bring us unusual formats and ask us if we…
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Old Storage Formats Make Bad Backups
We’re working on a digital photo organizing project that involves lots of old digital media formats. Most of these formats are only 20-25 years old, but technology changes fast…
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Estimating Photo Slides
One of the most common questions we get is about the cost of photo scanning projects. We could spend many hours counting photos to get an exact number, but instead…
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Estimating Printed Photos
Last week we had a new client drop off a small batch of photos she needed scanned for a memorial slideshow. To provide a quick estimate…
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![Fixing Dates of Digital Photos and Videos with Adam Pratt]()
Course: Fixing Dates of Digital Photos and Videos
Every one of my family photos and videos back to 1904 has been digitized, organized, and shared. But there was one problem that perplexed me…
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Organizing and Sifting Physical Photos
The best way to solve a big problem is to break it down into a bunch of small problems. That’s what I tell myself when I face huge photo organizing projects. For example…
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Minimizing Electronic Waste
Our work involves lots of electronic equipment and digital devices. When electronics are broken or no longer serviceable…
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Why choose Chaos to Memories?
With 25 years of experience in technology, photography, and design, our founder Adam Pratt was made to…
