RE: [LegacyUG] Caption/Text for images (.jpg)

[William H. Boswell]

You're right about hard drive failures.  I had two die late last 
year--externals.  They're usually the first to die.

I backup a lot.  Discs are cheap.  I prefer dual layer.

Bill Boswell

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:29 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Caption/Text for images (.jpg)

Agree that the price of Photoshop is probably too steep for most families and 
the alternatives suggested are all good ones. I might add that I have scanned 
many of my family's photo collections to make part of my genealogy records. The 
digital copies reside as part of the Photo Gallery in Legacy. In nearly all 
cases, I used Photoshop to add a border on one side or another upon which I 
entered a text description of who was in the picture as well as a date and 
location. The images were then resized to a now standard 6" x 4" print size. 
Whenever Costco has one of their 9 cent print sales, I run over there with a CD 
of over 500 images. The reason: your hard drive and/or disc media will all fail 
at some point in time...guaranteed. With a hard copy image, they can last as 
long as the pictures taken during the Civil War. Besides, the hard copy image 
also serves as an "analog backup" to the "digital copy".

Brian in CA





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