How to digitise old family photos and stories easily. Don’t let your memories fade

Would you like to:

• Learn how to scan in your old family photos?
• Restore the digitised family photos easily?
• Record your family stories, and add this audio to the digitised photos to create keepsake family history video files to treasure?

Vivid-Pix has developed the software and the scanning station you need to do this – with ease. Read on to find out more in this message from our sponsor and advertiser, Vivid-Pix.

Make that start digitising your old photos

• How can you get started preserving your family photos and stories?
• View 4 minute introductory video guide here! (Once you've click this link, press 'Play' on the 'Memory Station Tutorial' video).

Learn how Vivid-Pix can make your digitisation project simple and enjoyable

• How can Vivid-Pix help you digitise your family photos and stories?
• Why is it important to digitise your family history photos?
• What is the best way to digitise old photos?
• What is the Vivid-Pix Memory Station?
• Learn how to add voice memories to your scanned images - EASILY! - and create videos!

Remember why your project to preserve the past is so precious

• Remembering the importance of reminiscence to quality of life in later life
• Working on the valuable role of family history in dementia care

Find out more

Find out more at: www.vivid-pix.com

 

How can you get started digitising your old family photos and stories?

How can you make this happen?
Digitising photos is the first step to making them more shareable and to ensure the future preservation of their associated memories. Here Rick Voight, CEO Vivid-Pix, shares his top simple, doable scanning tip:

‘Enjoy it! Enjoy the work of organising your photos. Don’t rush the scanning. There will be so many wonderful memories evoked. Take time to relive the memories. Don’t let your memories fade.’

How can Vivid-Pix help you digitise your family photos and stories?

Providing educational tutorials, easy to use software and versatile hardware, Vivid-Pix has developed tailor-made solutions to help storytellers preserve their stories and memories for the future.

Why is it important to digitise your old family history photos?

For years, Vivid-Pix has supported and encouraged extensive research on the social and health benefits of photographs, and the findings are clear and compelling.

‘A photo is a great vessel to open the door to so many other things,’ explains Dr Joshua Freitas, Chief Research Officer at the CERTUS Institute. According to the research, photos can help people have connections, revisit places in their mind’s eye, remember people, share stories, socialise, rekindle passions for past times and, put simply, dramatically improve their quality of life. 

Curt B Witcher, Director of Special Collections Allen County Public Library, agrees. ‘“Story” is why people engage in genealogy,’ he says. ‘The power of “story”: it changes people’s lives. We know this, and Vivid-Pix has been a wonderful partner to help people find their stories.’

What is the best way to digitise your old photos?

Vivid-Pix makes it easy for you to succeed!

Vivid-Pix is all about making it simple to relive memories. It does so by providing both the tools and know-how to help people find, share and preserve their family stories and photos.

What is the Vivid-Pix Memory Station?

Vivid-Pix have created bespoke software and hardware to help you scan and restore your old photos, and also to record your family memories, and share them as videos.

Introducing, the Vivid-Pix Memory Station Home Edition Bundle (US$799.95) provides an overhead Ricoh scanner and intuitive software with a clear interface enabling users to accomplish scanning, restoration and improvement of old photos, digitised documents, and even 3-D objects too. The Vivid-Pix Memory Station Home Edition software (US$199.99) may also be used with many other scanner models too. 

View 4 minute introductory video guide here!

Learn how to add voice memories to your scanned images - EASILY! - and create videos!

Easily create shareable memories!
Once the item is scanned, you can record your own voice memory to go with the digital file, thus creating MP4 video stories of those precious photos, papers and memorabilia.

Vivid-Pix has also developed a solid range of foundational educational courses in family history, photo organisation, photography, storytelling and photo reminiscence, each designed to help you preserve those memories. The Vivid-Pix tutorials are a great way to learn how to care for photos and share the memories.

View 4 minute introductory video guide here! 

That shoebox of photos is doing nothing in your cupboard; bringing it out, scanning the images, recording the stories and sharing it really brings it to life. 

Remembering the importance of reminiscence to quality of life in later life

How do photos and reminiscence relate to wider family history activities & societies?

Going beyond the individual family history enthusiast, Vivid-Pix is also dedicated to helping organisations, including museums, archives, and family history societies.

By helping them harness the power of photos, these groups can engage current members, attract new audiences, and spark meaningful discussions.
The Family Matters Engagement Program has been created to help organisations and societies accomplish these goals and more, bringing the public through the door, to share their stories and enrich all our lives.

The program includes the Vivid-Pix Memory Station Professional Edition Bundle comprising overhead scanner and software, education courses, and the Family Matters Outreach Toolkit (together US$1,499.99).

If you’re a society member and you’d like to learn more about this innovative program just visit https://vivid-pix.com/familymatters

Working on the valuable role of family history in dementia care

For ourselves, for others ...

‘We know how important it is to take care of our family members, our friends, our loved ones, who are on the dementia spectrum,’ says Curt B Witcher – and Vivid-Pix, through its work with the US National Institute for Dementia Education, has articulated something we all perhaps thought to be true – that something as simple as showing people a picture from their past, and recalling the events, can help people with these difficult memory challenges.

Remember, as Rick Voight, CEO Vivid-Pix says ...

‘Enjoy it! Enjoy the work of organising your photos. Don’t rush the scanning. There will be so many wonderful memories evoked. Take time to relive the memories. Don’t let your memories fade.’

Find out more at: www.vivid-pix.com