Physical Photo print storage

I looked around the various forums here and did some searching but didn't really come up with anything. I'm starting to get a collection of prints up to 8x10 setting around. What are people doing with their prints these days to show them to people when they come over? I want something that stores them without damage but yet allows people to look at them, without getting them full of finger prints.

How many prints are you talking about? If it's a dozen or so, I'd mount and frame them and hang them on a wall somewhere. I'm going through that process right now - redoing a room for displaying a decent number (up to around 20) of mounted & framed shots.

If you're talking about a larger number of prints, I can't give you much advice - will be watching this thread for some good ideas.

Best regards,

Daryl

http://itoya.com/ Itoya makes portfolios for sizes as small as 5x7 to 13x19 and larger. There is no perfect was to both protect and display photos in this sort of format - there are always compromises - but their products are pretty good. Itoya portfolios are widely available, at least in the US - craft stores, framing stores, photo stores, B&H, etc.

Hi:



I had previously looked at this:



http://www.amazon.com/Professional-...53866700&sr=8-4&keywords=8x10+portfolio+album



I have not tried it, but it might be worth a look. I have seen similar items like this before as I also have been looking for a way to conveniently store prints, but also to make them accessible and easy to view.



Good luck.

Hi, My approach has been to put prints in 3 ring binder type albums. Insert pages are available in various foremats to take small prints (e.g. four, 4X6 photos per side per page) up to one 8.5 by 11 inch photo per page. The big advantage for me is that the 3 ring binder pages can easily be taken out, reordered, etc depending on what photos we want to show to various people. (Relatives want to see lots of family photos, friends want to see mostly scenery, not people, and so on.) I also find it helpful to write brief tags for each photo, so years later we can see details that we might otherwise have forgotten, like the name of that beautiful waterfall in the mountains, or who are the people in the group photo. And, as you mentioned, it's good to know that the photographs are protected and don't suffer finger smudges, etc.

The other approach I find works well for us is doing DVD slide shows of special collections such as vacation trips. I use "ProShow Gold" to create and edit presentations with title pages, transitions and appropriate music, e.g. highland pipers for our Scotland trip, etc. With good pacing you can show a hundred plus photos in just a few minutes. The DVDs are portable and can be shown on large screen TVs. They go over well with grandchildren who might quickly bored get with photo albums.

Cheers, Geoff.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know they had this kind of thing in the 'craft' stores, I'm going to see what they have in the next couple of days. I don't have a ton of prints around but after printing some K01 shots I have a feeling I'll have more, they have such good sharpness they almost have a 3D look to them. (I already have about all the prints up on the wall that still looks ok at this point.)

A friend (who is an antique restorer) puts prints in plastic sleeves in binders. She makes sure the sleeves are non-PVC and acid free, etc. I've seem these products around in photo shops. Mine are all on computer media but, of course, my photos are put in print a lot but not for storage.