The Problem With Photographic Portraits

A Personal 3D Special Consumer Report

Photographs– Not the Best Way to Preserve Your Cherished Memories

Photographs have traditionally
Things to remember: been the best way to remem-
ber the events of our lives.
 Photographs are
Each moment in time is unique,
highly suscepti-
ble to fading and never more than when you
from everyday consider how fast your children
environmental change as they are growing up.
factors: heat,
light, and air. However, the technology that
enables us to enjoy photo-
 Even high quality graphs is really quite limited,
archival papers and has progressed very little
and inks can in the last 100 years. Yes, we
fade after have digital formats now, and
months or years we have color capabilities now,
of exposure.
but the end product– the por-
 Digital files are trait that is printed on paper–
susceptible to is shockingly vulnerable to envi-
ronmental degradation.
loss as well.
 Personal 3D has The quality of photographic
a solution! paper that is used can vary
wildly. It is mostly true that you
get what you pay for with the
more expensive archival pa-
pers. But in many cases you
may not know if your photogra-
pher of choice is using the very
best paper available. Even now have an enhanced layer of
archival papers will eventually security for their digitized pho-
degrade if displayed in fluores- tos. However, there are other
cent light or sunlight. Atmos- dangers to this view. Hard
pheric ozone and heat are two drives do fail, computers do
other elements that can harm crash, and it may be difficult or
paper photographs. impossible to recover the data
that is lost.
Inks for printing the photo-
graphs are another potential Portraits printed on paper are
weak spot. Again, the archival an imperfect way to preserve
inks that are available gener- your cherished memories. The
ally perform much better than before and after examples be-
the alternatives, but when ex- low illustrate how colors can
posed to the UV radiation in shift and fade with extended
sunlight or fluorescent lighting, exposure in a typical home.
these too will eventually fade.
Assuming your portraits, or
some of your portraits, are not
displayed but are stored in
albums, they might last for
many years. But being made of
paper, they are still vulnerable
to fire damage, flood damage,
and being misplaced.
With today’s digital options,
many people believe that they

Personal 3D Offers a Solution to This Problem

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unique service; we will produce
a custom-made, accurate and
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loved one that will last for years
and can be passed from gen-
eration to generation!

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