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Always work on a clean, hard surface and apply a light touch when writing to avoid ?pressure transfer,? which may cause whatever you are writing to be visible on the image side. It is also best to write near the edges of your images?not in the middle?just to be safe!

Use pencil for labeling: Pencil lead #1 or #2 is the museum gold standard for labeling anything on paper, because it is soft and erasable. Don't press too hard, because it will leave a depression on the reverse side.

The classic convention for titling an image is to identify the subject (name the person, place or thing) and add the date of creation: if it's a photograph use the date of exposure; if it's a painting use the date of completion; if it's a composite photograph default to the latter; if it's an image of a historic event ...

In Windows Explorer (or Windows Photo Viewer), right mouse click on a photo a select Properties. In the dialog box that pops up, select "Details." There is a section called "Description" with the fields: Title, Subject, Rating, Tags, and Comments. Title is the EXIF Comment field. Tags is the IPTC Keyword field.

Regular sharpies are definitely not acid free. My mom, not knowing about photo-safe pens at the time, used sharpie in some of my photo albums and there is yellow discoloration around the writing. RE: Darksideme: Regular sharpies are definitely not acid free.

If you can, use a soft lead pencil to write information?including who's in a photo, the date it was taken, the occasion, and where it was taken?on the back of a photograph (where the information will never become separated from the image). Soft lead is important because hard lead pencils will leave an indentation.

Store paper items in a clean storage area where you can keep the temperature and relative humidity (RH) moderate and stable. 68 degrees Farenheit or less and between 30-40%. Lower temperature is best for color photos. High (RH) and temperature speed decay; low humidity can crack, peel, or curl photos.

It's best to write the name, date, location along the top or bottom edge, just to decrease the chance of damaging the important center of the image. For the family historian, labels are often written onto scrapbooks pages or on separate labels.