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Why your wedding photos shouldn't live on a hard drive
Hard drives fail, formats change, and cloud accounts lapse. A printed album is the one form of your photographs almost guaranteed to outlive the technology they were made on. Here's why, and what to do about it.
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How to turn digital wedding photos into an album
Your photographer delivered a gallery link, not an album. The real process, from editing to sequencing to print.
Lay-flat vs flush-mount: what's the difference?
A plain-English guide to album binding and why it matters more than you'd think for how your spreads look.
What is a matted album?
Cut window mats over every print, so each photograph sits framed in its own right. How it's made, and who it suits.
Soft back vs hardback vs flush-mount: choosing a binding
Three constructions solve three different problems: cost, quantity and formality. Which one actually fits what you're printing.
How to rescue a box of old family photographs
Practical first steps for sorting, scanning and protecting prints before time does any further damage.
What can, and can't, be restored
A look at real before-and-afters and an honest guide to what's recoverable from a damaged photograph.
The art of sequencing: telling a story in spreads
Why the order of images matters as much as the images themselves: lessons from twenty years of documentary practice.
The gift that makes people cry (in a good way)
A thoughtfully created album can often hold more significance than most other presents for a special milestone.
Why prints look different to your screen
A decade-long overview of pre-press: examining how colour, paper, and ink impact the presentation of photographs.