Resch Family Album

This project consisted of scanning in roughly 850 pictures from an old family photo album. After scanning in the images I was asked by family members to please not "correct" all of the flaws in the pictures. I was allowed to remove fingerprints, scratches and large blemishes.

The next step and most tedious was to add keywords, metadata and titles to each of the images. My Grandmother had hand written in white pencil many of the dates and people in the pictures.

The last step was then to create a DVD. It consisted of 2 sections. The main portion was a photo album and slideshow. The second portion was a large database of all of the hi res images for future reprints and archiving.

For me, the most stressful part of this project was being in posession of the family album. It was very brittle and to scan in the images I had to take apart the book.

When the DVDs were handed out to the family, it was pointed out that this album ended in 1973. I was informed that there were at least 5 more albums with the same amount of pictures in each e. A daunting task.