Emergency preparedness experts advise us to have copies of important documents. People who have lost their homes in a fire lament they no longer have precious family photos. The solution: Have ...

That stack of old photos isn’t going to preserve itself. If you want to keep your memories safe from time, damage, and dust, you need to bring them into the digital age. Scanning old photos at home on ...

Before my parents moved from New York to Arizona in 2006, they left me with many of their belongings—a dinnerware set, an upright piano, a giant fig tree. The most precious item I received was a box ...

For years you’ve been saying you’re going to scan all the photos you have in shoeboxes in the basement. Now’s as good a time as any. There are a few smartphone apps that’ll help you with this so you ...

Before smartphones and Instagram feeds, photographs were printed and stored in shoeboxes and albums. These tangible snapshots were the best way to revisit old memories: photos of great grandparents, ...

It may seem as though all photos are digital these days, but, amazingly, I still come across the occasional physical photo. School photos, my son’s sports photos, and tourist-trap attraction photos ...

I'm helping my dad find a program that can scan the pages of photo albums (on the scanner flatbed), and automatically crop and extract the multiple images per page into individual image files. For ...

Keep the portrait of your great-grandmother and your dad's dorky high school yearbook photo safe for future generations with one of these apps or services. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for ...