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RoxieW

Sorry I wasn't sure how to sum this up in a sentence. I hope you'll read on.
A close friend of mine now has her step son living with her and his dad as his mum recently died of breast cancer. He is eight years old and obviously distraught, screaming and crying one minute, completely withdrawn the next. Step mum and dad are understandably bearing the brunt of this and are treading very carefully around him.
He spends a lot of time on his dsi (his last bday gift from mum) and my friend has tried to take an interest in it as a way of sort of engaging with him. Anyway, the other day she noticed him looking through photos on it and there are photos on it that he took of his mum. Several of them doodled on with love hearts etc.
Anyway she is now wondering if there is a way of keeping these photos. They are pretty low quality I think (my son also has a dsi) and he has many good quality photos of his mother but obv they are very precious for the fact that he took them himself and that they are very recent before she died. The last thing she wants is the console to break and them be lost.
As far as I know you can put the photos on a memory card but what to do with them then? I thought maybe put them on a kind of canvas collage but not sure how it would look with the low quality of snap?
Money isn't really an object as she just wants to do the best by the little boy.
She's also worried about how to approach the subject. She did suggest doing it as a surprise but I said I don't think that's the best idea really. It might upset him if sprung on him and also perhaps he should decide what to do with them if she can present him with some options?
His dad btw is next to useless at the moment and my friend is the one holding things together for everyone while they all do a lot of adjusting. She's scared of upsetting the boy and becoming the 'bad guy' but wants to do something sooner rather that later so not to risk the snaps getting lost.
Any ideas greatly appreciated as I'm not terribly creatively minded when it comes to things like this.
Thanks for reading.

Bloomin_Freezing2

Hi

Poor little boy, such a shame. I don't personally know the answer to your question, but I did just google 'How to get photos off a DSI' and there'e plenty of step by step instructions.

ali-t

What about a photo book? Once you get the pics off they can go in a photobook and it won't matter if they are poor quality as they are of his mum.

RoxieW

Hi thanks I know how to get them onto a sd card (well, I don't but should be easy enough to learn lol). Looking for ideas on how to present them in 'hard' form IYSWIM.

McKneff

Perhaps if you take the card to a good photographer they could enhance the photos, easy for some good photographers

(make a copy of the card or put them on to a disc first)

Grimbal

how about getting one of those little photo keyrings? The resolution on those things aren't top notch, so the poor quality of the pics from the ds shouldn't matter. That way he can keep the keyring and the photos wherever he goes.

jackieglasgow

There are a few people on here who are really good at photoshopping etc. they might be able to advise what programmes to use, what companies, etc. Maybe post on the techie board?

RoxieW

McKneff wrote: »

Perhaps if you take the card to a good photographer they could enhance the photos, easy for some good photographers

(make a copy of the card or put them on to a disc first)

Is that really possible? She doesn't care what it costs.

RoxieW

All good ideas. A photo book after the photos being enhanced is a good one. Perhaps this would be better than say a canvas which would be on display all the time and might be upsetting for him? I don't really know as have no experience of such grief. Would something he can put away but get out when he wants be better?

Sambucus_Nigra

Apple will print photobooks - I had some done a couple of years ago. If you know anyone with a mac, you can do the layout and add text etc; and submit it with payment and a couple of weeks later you get a proper printed book.

They are lovely.

I'd get the photos off it anyway and make a couple of copies and then get him involved in being part of the process of designing the book....perhaps leave it a little while yet though?

NorthernLas

Not sure how to get the photos off the DSi. Once you have them, try snapfish (trueprint) where you can create photo books, mugs, jigsaws etc.