How To Preserve Your Digital Photos

How do I preserve my digital photos?

Most people just download the picture to the computer and then they don't worry about it. However, we all know that it's not when your computer crashes, it's "Is it going to do it today or tomorrow?" If your computer crashes, all the pictures are lost. So, what I recommend that you do is every time that you're satisfied with a set of pictures, you burn them to a long-life CD or DVD. That means none of the rewritables, none of the cheap ones; you have to spend big money. A good CD is about a dollar and a half, and a good DVD is about three dollars, for a gold, high-quality CD or DVD. So, once again, I take my kid's birthday party photos, I take them all, I download them to the computer, I edit them, I throw away all the bad ones until I'm down to the fifty or a hundred that I really want to keep, and those get burned onto a high-quality gold DVD. The best gold CDs and DVDs are by Delkin, they have a three hundred year life. The Promaster gold CDs and DVDs have a fifty year life. Most of the stuff you're going to buy at the office store, the drug store, or wherever, have a two to five year life, and then you're really in big trouble.