Who Do You Think You Are?

CURATE YOUR PHOTOS

These days, family and technology go hand in hand. Having embraced video chats to stay in contact with loved ones via software like FaceTime, Skype and Zoom, now is the perfect time to harness technology for other uses – one of which is to finally get your family’s photos in order. The entire process can be covered by your computer, smartphone or tablet – from digitising old photographs to preserve and share with others, to removing blemishes and transforming them in ways scarcely believable even a few years ago.

And once that’s done? We’ll show you how to ‘tag’ your photos with key information to help others identify them, then reveal how to protect them for future generations by storing them online and disseminating

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