If you are stuck with a photo mess, you might need a Pixologist!
Back when we first started our photo organization business, our dear clients Bob and Sue Riley were ready to fix their photo mess. They had a walk-in closet full of 55 photo albums, many boxes, portraits and envelopes. What we call a full-on photo mess. After removing the photos, organizing them with our system, we had about 9,000 photos to scan. After scanning the photos, each of their seven adult children received a jump drive. The Riley’s received their photos back in archival boxes.
Because of our business name, Pixologie, Bob, simply amazed, said “You are my Pixologist.” For years, I resisted the title, but recently Bob referred a 79-year-old retired attorney to me. When she called, she stated, “I need a Pixologist, too!” Gen ended up having far more photos than Bob. She also had thousands of slides and negatives, thirty reels of film and more.
Since then, I am sold on the value a “Pixologist” offers people who need a starting point to tackle their piles of pictures.
So, what makes a person a Pixologist? Good question. Over the years, we have helped organize nearly 1 million photos. If you show me a photo, I can offer you three immediate things to do with the photo. “Toss it, Save It, Share It.” Sounds simple, but this is difficult to actually do with the hundreds and thousands of photos people accumulate!
A Pixologist demonstrates the following characteristics:
- Knows how to organize photos efficiently and frugally (i.e. saving 15-20 of the 100 in a stack)
- Understands which photos will best preserve stories, traditions and values for next generations
- Teaches people how to organize and save their own photos
- Offers photo organization, digitization and archival tools that he/she has personally tested
- Provides custom solutions based on a person’s technological know-how, time and financial resources
- Recommends digital back-up and cloud storage solutions
- Optional – Works with family film and video preservation
In short, I believe a Pixologist is an expert in the field of photo and media organization and an expert in memory preservation. He or she has put in many hours of work in the field and can answer most any question related to how to save a photo, slide, negative, piece of memorabilia, family film and video and so much more.
So, the term photo organizer just doesn’t cover what we do. Some people might call us photo organization coaches, but we like Pixologist better!
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