In this digital age, the large amount of photos we collect can quickly become overwhelming. Keeping all these photos organized is no small task and is something I’ve struggled to keep on top of – but not anymore! 2015 is the year I get this photo collection under control and I invite you to join me on this ‘One Year to More Organized Photos’ journey!
I’m excited to introduce this monthly series to the blog in the new year! You can follow along as I purge, re-organize and take control of my ever-growing digital photo pile!
We’ll be touching on all areas of photo organization including:
-how to get started
-digital file storage and organization
-photo printing
-editing, cropping, saving and sharing images
-safe photo storage
-getting photos in albums
-the ins and outs of backing up your images
Taking photos is really the first step in preserving your precious family memories. Organizing and making sure your treasured photos are safe and accessible is a legacy you’ll leave to your family. If you don’t have a photo organizational system in place right now, I invite you to join me in 2015 and we can conquer this challenge together!
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Yes. I have put off scrapbooking my girls’ lives because I can’t handle the THOUSANDS of images to go through. I can’t wait for this series.
Fantastic! I definitely need more photo organization and with a wee one on the way I know the amount of photos taken will only grow and grow! 😀
im really excited to read your upcoming blog on organizing photos! I currently have a folder labelled pictures and in there I have folders by the year and each year has the photos by month. So if you have a simpler way, I’d love to learn more!
I’ll be reading this – my photos are a mess! 🙂
so excited you are doing this…I’m following and organizing
Perfect!!!! This is exactly what I need to get me started on this gigantic task. Thank you !!!
This is perfect…..
where to start! I cannot wait for this series.
This is going to be such a help for me! Thank you!!!!
Ditto! I agree with everything which has said above. Photo organization is something I too struggle with.
Yahoo!!!
I’m looking forward to this series! Maybe this will be the year I actually get my photos organized.
I too have this as a goal of mine to get accomplished! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts towards this intimidating yet rewarding task!
I could use this NOW!! I keep changing my systems because they don’t serve me well. So maybe this time I’ll hit on the best one! Thanks for sharing your experience.
This is one of my goals for 2015 as well. Truth be told, it’s a goal every year, but I have yet to conquer it. I’m excited for your series and hopefully this will be my year to get things in order.
This is perfect timing! I’m gearing up my photography this year- I know this I just what I need! Looking forward to learning !
I’ve been coping with this for years and my dad before me. Although he carefully identified people and roughly dated the photos, much interesting, important detail emerged as he and Mom discussed the history behind them. There is too much to wtite about in my thousands of photos. I would start with a family tree, showing faces, names, dates of birth, relationship. Then I would decide which photos to put into scrapbooks, mini books and/or on DVD. I would interview people on tape or any recording device, asking them to answer a few prepared questions. I even got my 2 yr old to sing a song with me…priceless! I am making a list of events, will write or record my memories of it and invite participants to add their memories. Remember. ..brief with key, interesting details. Humor is wonderful! Resolve to improve your photo taking skills. Quit lining people up for pictures. Take candid shots of a few people doing things together. One technique I use is to take videos, panning slowly. Then I print a frame or two. This is how I got a wonderful action shot of a soccer goal being made by our daughter. Remember to include a shot or two of the venue. ..set the stage for the event. Photograph the spectators as well as the actors…reactions are sometimes more telling and interesting than the event.
Those are thoughts off the top of my head. Hope they help. I look forward to following your blog. It’s a great idea!
Love your ideas Farraday.
So excited and motivated to get started on organizing and actually using my photos!
How many of us have thousands of photos just in digital limbo land?!
Lead the way, Rebecca 🙂
It is like you read my mind! I was just thinking that 2015 is the year that I need to get my digital photos organized once and for all. I have been so overwhelmed on where to start. I do organize them by month/year but I have so many devices and they are not all saved in one spot. I am also very concerned about backing them up. I am very excited to read this series. I would love to know if you have a favorite photo organization software to save images from several sources.
Oh I am so in!! Very excited to follow along, my photos are a mess!
Oh yes!! I will follow….my pics are mess :/ Thank´s <3
will you cover organizing old family photos not digitized?
Yes – I’ll be covering both! 🙂
This is just what I have been looking for! 20 years of marriage, 3 kids and a dog all in a box or stored on the computer. I need some help!
Bring it on! So looking forward to it 😉
Thank you for doing this. I love your simple style so I’m vey excited to see your take on photo organization.
Can’t wait to tackle my piles in boxes and photos on the computer!
SO excited about this, friend! I NEED this. BADLY. 😉
I can’t wait to get started! I keep checking to see if you have posted your first post to help! Can’t wait!!
Every year I say “this is the Year”, and another year goes by.
Excited for this and really believe “this is the year”! Thanks in advance.
Yes, please! When do we start? 🙂
Oh thank you so much! So looking forward to this. I’ve been so overwhelmed to have any kind of system. I’m a Mac person and photo stream has truly confused me even more.
I really need your help!!!!
Thanks
Elisa
so excited for this!!!
Suc a good idea! I will join you for sure! Thank you for this very interesting feature!
I am IN!
I’m in!
We ALL need this!! Yay!
so happy 🙂
Excited and terrified by this project. Picked BRAVE as the word of the year for 2015. So here we go!
Following
You can read the first post in the series here Michele: https://simpleasthatblog.com/2015/01/getting-started-one-year-organized-photos.html
Would love to get mine organized.
awesome–this is one of my goal this year to organize all my photos in one central spot with various backups.. looking forward to your post..
You can read the first post in the series here Michele: https://simpleasthatblog.com/2015/01/getting-started-one-year-organized-photos.html
So glad you are doing this. I have slides and pictures too:) my parents died 8 months from ewch other. And we had 4 deaths in the family.lots pictures. We did buy a groupon to send 1050 slides/pictures off to scan soon.
I am going to finish the first step, have been working to gather them from lots of different areas, based on when they arrived in my house. example…my own, hubby’s, our family of four(just put everywhere), my childhood photos from my father via my brother, and his as well. my mom’s this year from her move into assisted living… so overwhelming… and so excited to get the help and guidance I need.
Wishing you luck Lynn – keep us posted on your progress. 🙂
Thank you! I so need this. My littlest just started school and maybe now I will find some time for this. Looking forward to seeing how you go about this.
I retired at the end of 2014 and one of my planned projects is to scan and categorize the hundreds of pics from over the years. Hoping these tips will help keep me on track.
thanks for some great ideas
Do you have an archive of these posts, specifically digital file storage and organization? iPhoto is driving me nuts! Thanks!