Sorting photos, who thinks that’s a great job? The memories are wonderful, the stories and moments are calling you to remember. But the piles, boxes, envelopes, baggies, bags, and bins filled with photos bring about many different emotions other than nostalgia. To bring those memories back into life we say follow the three steps to getting started on photo organizing.
At Pixologie, we want to help you discover your “photo nirvana” which can mean different things to different people. Here’s a few examples . . .
- A passing of the printed family photos down to the next generation
- Complete photo management including proper backup
- Simple – I can find the photo I want when I want it with minimal stress and tears
Here’s our three simple steps on organizing your photos so that you can reach your “photo nirvana”:
1. Get Started Today
Our photos and the stories within them strengthen family bonds, build strong resilient children, preserve values traditions, connect generations and inspire hope for the future. There is every reason to get started on organizing your photos today.
Once you make it a priority to consistently touch base with your photo collection, you’ll enjoy it and want to come back to them on a regular basis. Start today, and then at least once a month take the time to focus on preserving your family’s best moments.
2. Bring it All to One Place
Photos have an amazing ability to accumulate whether you are dealing with printed, digital or both. Our clients often have photos in more than half a dozen locations. Who can possibly manage that? There is only one solution and that is to bring your photos to one place – ultimately this would be to your computer, but that is a discussion for another article!
Printed Photos – bring all your albums, boxes, folders, envelopes, baggies, (you get the idea) to one room or place in your home. While you are doing this, you can take the extra step of organizing them by decade (or another topic) as a starting point.
Digital Photos – Currently 70% of consumers believe the computer is the proper place to store digital photos. Take time (at least monthly) to copy, download, transfer, etc your digital files to your computer – you can just save it to a monthly folder in your Pictures file (2015, September Photos) until you have time to sort them further.
Pixologie offers classes Printed Photo Organization and Digital Photo Organization so that you can work further with your photos once you have them gathered to one place.
3. Save what you love
When we only had film developing and prints to work with, the value of a single picture was greater. Today, we can take 20 photos with one click and selfies are the rage. We are amassing thousands of photos, yet, so often, we can’t find the ones we love.
It is time to pick out the best of your photos and save them. You can do this by getting rid of duplicates, similar photos, landscape scenes that have no one it, bad photos and on and on. When you are using a smartphone camera or digital camera, this is very easy to do – delete the ones you don’t want right away, save the ones you love!