Enhancing Memory Photos

We’ve chatted before about helping your Alzheimer’s patient create memories and the pleasure this can bring the whole family.  I mentioned in that post the use of photos to stimulate memories or give you both something to chat about.

You also may want to play around with your photos…making faded ones more visible, correcting mistakes in current ones, cropping them, printing just one or two people from a group, etc.

My daughter has been having fun playing with her Christmas gift, Photoshop Elements 7, as she experiments with photos and gets ideas for her quilting and fabric art. It’s amazing what all can be done with photos to improve them, to combine them, and to give them new looks. However, we both see possibilities for our family photos…current ones and older ones.

I’m fascinated as I watch Beth with this program…and she’s just begun to learn the fundamentals. She also purchased some books that give her more techniques and ideas.

Have you done anything with these photo programs?  What fun for enhancing memory photos and saving family history.

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