I have a confession to make. I take tons of photos of every month and I NEVER print them out. They just sit on my hard drive and rot. At the end of every month, I promise myself that I'll organize the month's photos and print them out and I never do. And that makes me feel really guilty. I don't think I've printed out photos in four years! It's the one area where I'm uncharacteristically disorganized and undisciplined. (Which I find funny, because I LOVE to take to photos and consider myself and amateur photographer.) While I'm not a scrapbooker, I do wish I was printing out photos and putting them in albums or even printing out photo books, but I don't. I'm so overwhelmed at this point that I just keep putting it off rather than dealing with it.
So I'm calling out for help. How do you stay on top of your photos? How do you organize them? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Hey Laura- Adobe Bridge..by month. I edit the images and place them in their folders by month because we always know about what month something took place... the events are always in the same month/year. This way when I print the end of the year albums, everything is ready to go. Funny I just mentioned this on my blog today!
I totally feel you. I took a million pictures the year I went on a mission. This was pre-digital age so when I got back I stuck them all in a photo box awaiting scrapbooking that never happened. 12 years later I'm off to a reunion of my mission team TONIGHT and I can't find the stupid box!
I majorly identify with this! If/when I DO print them, I print the most recent ones so I don't feel I have organize years of pictures.
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We don't print them out. We organize them by month/year with subfolders for special events and then just leave them there. We have 1 computer on with all the pictures scrolling through. It is awesome! Often, my girl will wake up early, grab her milk and just watch the screen as the pictures rotate through. This is so much better because we rarely pull down the scrapbooks to look at them, but we enjoy all our digital pics all the time on screen!
I stopped printing photos a few years ago when I stopped scrapbooking. I've been thinking about taking up digital scrapbooking, then loading the photos and layouts into facebook albums for friends and family to view.
But have I started? No, of course not!
First, I love those tapping toes. You are an excellent photog with an eye for the unusual shot. That said, I don't print photos either. But I sort of organize them into very broad catagories of folders and the I enjoy looking at them on my nice big computer screen. They look so good all lit up! I think I pass more time looking on the Mac than I ever look at the big old albums.
Hi! I rarely print photos these days. I organize my pictures by year, by month and by day...a full on file folder by sub folder by sub folder tree...crazy but totally helpful. I usually have a description for each folder so I remember the event even if it's just "us at home". Since digital photos have the date & time on the file it makes it easy to put it in the appropriate folder.
I am putting all my slides on cd's, and then I plan to use Apple (or some other online photo book place) and choose some the put into books - then I can look at them all the time in one place, and not worry about storing anything. And I agree about Adobe Bridge - just figured that out - using it to organize my work to see about what I already have in place for licensing collections.
I scrabook so I do print out some that I am currently working on but I have 2 boxes of photos that will need to be scanned and that probably won't happen for a while. I also have a hard time trying to remember where I have a certain photo since I have like 3 different places I keep them.
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This is still my ongoing project. It was made worse by the fact that my nicer camera was repaired last summer and we never reset the date stamp, so everything is dated 2008. Ugh! I read Stacy Julian's books on Finding Photo Freedom and it has helped me feel more confident and less overwhelmed by the process. I have a long way to go, but I enjoy it more. I have been using Picasa. I am a scrapbooker, but haven't decided to not print anything until I make a dent in what I have already printed.
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