Humidity ruined my pictures

**frugalandsimple** · 06-08-2008, 10:51 AM

At least, I think they are runied. I had printed pictures off the Internet as part of my scrapbooking project. Then, I put them on scrapbook paper then into sheet protectors thinking they wouldn't get runied that way. The pictures feel sticky to touch and there's little spots on them. At least, I had just started on my project and didn't have many pictures but I feel now I just had wasted my time and money finding the pictures and printing them on photo quality paper. Any ideas on keeping the pictures from getting ruined by the heat and humidity? My only thought is to put my scrapbook in the freezer when I'm not working on it. No room in the refridgerator. The pictures are still on my computer so I can just reprint them.

**Jskell911** · 06-08-2008, 11:00 AM

All I can think of is to keep them wrapped in newspaper. Keeping them in the freezer might cause condensation when you take them out.

**AmyMCGS** · 06-08-2008, 11:04 AM

I've had this happen, too.

I've just left them as they are, and then when it's cooler, gently seperated the photo from the page protector by pushing my fingers down inside the page protector. Sometimes it takes off little spots from the photo, and sometimes it hasn't harmed them at all.

I've also just left some of them as they are, stuck to the page protector, if they're in an album and I have no plans to remove them in the future. It's frustrating, but I have no idea what to do to prevent it.