Family Technology Expert James Oppenheim Shares Fun and Memorable Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Graduate

Some of the most cherished gifts to help graduates commemorate this milestone in their lives might not be found in a store. They are the gifts of memories. Noted family technology expert James Oppenheim provides three gift ideas to help make that perfect keepsake for this year's graduation day.

"Graduation is a high point in people's lives, and young men and women will look back on the events and experiences that helped shape who they are," Oppenheim said. "There is no better way to ensure those precious memories will be preserved for years to come than to either give personalized gifts to relive the special events leading up to or on that important day or to give graduates the tools that enable them to preserve their future memories for themselves."

Oppenheim suggests memorable gift ideas made with a variety of digital imaging tools and techniques to make graduation day one-of-a-kind with personalized keepsakes:

A Graduation Day Bestseller

Most people take pictures to document the events throughout their graduate's school years: group outings, school activities, birthday parties, and more. These cherished images can be presented to the graduate to reawaken the significant feelings experienced during those events. If those photos aren't already digital they can be scanned, and the faded colors in old photos can be restored. Then the digital images can easily be printed for display in picture frames or portrayed in story form through a personal hardcover photo book. The EPSON StoryTeller Photo Book Creator is an all-inclusive kit offering an easy and professional way to turn individual photos into a beautiful, hardbound, glossy photo book that can be printed and assembled right at home. EPSON StoryTeller Photo Book Creator kits are available beginning at $19.99. More information is available at www.epson.com/storyteller.

Capturing and Preserving Memories

Today, it is easier than ever to capture special moments using a digital camera, and you don't need to be a technology expert to do it. Graduates will enjoy having the latest tools to enable them to capture their own memories going forward with one of the many digital cameras available today that resemble the traditional point-and-shoot camera. Offering ease-of-use and better image quality than ever before, digital cameras provide users the flexibility to take photos, view them and delete them if they aren't just right, as well as make it easy to create an archival print to cherish for years to come.

Personalized Memory Library

Collect all of your graduate's home movies and photographs taken throughout his formative years, and organize them on a recordable CD or DVD. Convert your 35mm slides or VHS tapes into digital form and burn them onto recordable media, such as CDs and DVDs. For the most professional-looking results and to avoid problems of adhesive labels, it is best to use inkjet printable CDs and DVDs and a printer capable of printing directly onto the media.

The home movies and photo collections that you create can be combined with scrapbooks and any other memorabilia you or your graduate may have gathered over the years. Using a small bookshelf, or even a large photo box, build a personal "memory library" that can be visited to relive special occasions at a moment's notice.

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