Photo tips
Our advice for choosing, sorting, restoring, and enhancing your family photos while preserving your most precious memories.
Welcome to the Photo tips section of the Souvenirs Vivants blog. Here you'll find our articles, tips, and ideas for passing down family memories through photos, animated memories, and connected photo frames.
Souvenirs Vivants supports French families with two complementary services: WiFi digital photo frames that display your memories in real time at your loved ones' homes, and a memory video service that animates a photo using artificial intelligence.
Sorting photos by emotion rather than date: a more human method
A sensitive and practical guide to organizing memories as you flip through an inner album with simple ideas, photos to prepare and a truly personal souvenir gift track.
How to photograph a legacy object to tell its story
Jewelry, watch, letter, tool: an inherited object can become the starting point of a beautiful family memory.
Use photo metadata to find a date or location
Metadata can help find a date, place, or order of a digital memory.
Enhance a blurry photo without making it artificial
A sensitive and practical guide to saving emotion without turning the memory into an unrealistic image with simple ideas, photos to prepare and a truly personal souvenir gift track.
How to get a child to tell a picture
A practical guide to using images to develop memory, language and family connection with simple ideas, photo tips and a sensitive approach around family memories.
Prepare your photos before ordering a souvenir creation
There are a few steps to send better photos and get a stronger souvenir creation.
Family photos on old computer: how to recover them
Before discarding or replacing an old computer, remember to recover the photos and souvenirs it contains.
Choosing which photos to send to a connected frame: the right selection
A sensitive and practical guide to alternating strong, everyday memories and surprises to create a vivid presence with simple ideas, photos to prepare and a truly personal souvenir gift track.
Les détails à photographier pendant une fête de famille
Un guide pratique pour ne pas oublier les petits éléments qui racontent l’ambiance avec des idées simples, des conseils photos et une approche sensible autour des souvenirs familiaux.