Here’s a riddle for you: When is a negative actually a positive?
The answer: when you find actual negatives in your family photo collection.
Prior to digital imaging, photographers and developers required a negative to create a printed image. So along with all those print images in your shoeboxes of photos, you probably have negatives: film, glass, different-sized sheets, or even odd-sized formats. Regardless of format, all negatives have something in common: They’re the reverse of the desired print image, meaning light areas of the negative represent dark sections of the photo, and vice versa.
After prints, negatives make up the most-significant part of many family photograph collections. But photo negatives are often misunderstood and thrown away—you’ve probably wondered yourself what to do with them.
Instead of discarding these ghostly items, save them for the next generation, and take advantage of the high-res images they hold. Here’s
