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how do you organize your digital photos?
One of my new year's resolution is to organize my online photos better. I normally just upload them to an online photo website but realized I should also be saving back up copies in a cd or external hard drive. With the invention of digital cameras, it's so easy to take photos and not having them "developed" like before. How do you keep your photos organized? Do you order prints of all pics you take or just make photobooks at the end of the year? I am sure I'll learn more efficient ways of keeping photos organized from all of you :-).
Re: how do you organize your digital photos?
We use Picasa and create albums for each event we photograph. We also have a few random files like "Lola pics," to which we can add random single shots. We like Picasa because you can easily create online albums to share from your storage files and you can do photo editing there, too. Our computer is hooked up to an external hard drive, so everything gets backed up whenever we add or make changes to the files.
We rarely print photos. We click through the digital files whenever we want to relive something, but because DH is getting into photography, he's talked about starting to make photobooks of our picture highlights each year.
I, um....have folders of them on my computer. That's it.
No digital albums or photobooks or anything. I'm very lazy when it comes to our photos lol. I probably should upload them all to some online albums, just in case something happens to my laptop!
Just to show you how lazy I am with them though, I'm only just now putting together a photobook of our wedding. A year and a half after the fact.
I upload them to Photobucket and/or Shutterfly and have some in folders on my computer too. I need to get better about organizing them...every so often I'll burn them to DVD so I can clean up the files on my computer. And external hard drive is a better idea though.
With a baby on the way, I am promising to at least make one digital photobook a year to document her babyhood...and also make copies for each of her four sets of grandparents, etc.
Like Lisa, I still have yet to make a proper wedding album. We did a MyPublisher album of non-pro pics for our AHR, but that is it. I also have over 3,000 4x6 printed proofs from our photog and framed up about 20 in collage frames, but the rest are stored away in a plastic tote. I really should do something with them...at least bundle them up and send them to family, etc. I have all of the images on DVD and own the actual negatives too.
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Especially with baby (and the million photos we have taken of him), I've found the easiest is to save on my computer by date. Every once in a while, I'll transfer to our external hard drive to clear space on my laptop.
It would just take too long to upload every picture we take to a photo website.
If I make a photo book, I just upload the pics I want to where ever I'm getting the photobook (usually where ever there is a sale).
SP has a blog so we upload things there as a sort of memory book for him (allthough I really need to be better at updating it!).
I upload photos to albums on kodak. I take a zillion pictures so I organize the albums based on Marino's age and each album is 2 months, so it will be "Marino: 16 and 17 months." At the end of 2 months, I send it to everyone I think wants to look at 200 pictures of Marino.
I also am working on a digital scrapbook (scrapblog.com) from my summer pictures, which I will have printed. I also plan to have my blog printed, but I'm not sure how long I'll do...maybe a year at a time? There's a lot of pictures...I may need to do 6 months.
A few times a year I make a photo cd and write whatever event (& date) on there w/a sharpie. I then store the photo cd's in a huge cd binder, like the ones we used to carry cd's in our cars in back before ipods.There is room for 180 cd's I think. I also upload them to walmart.com's photo center.
You girls really need to back your pictures up asap!!! My girlfriends computer just crashed and she lost all of her photos from the past three years. She is absolutely heartbroken. She was just saying how she planned on doing it on her upcoming time off but before that time came it was too late. She even brought her computer to 2 different mac stores to see if the mac-gods could help but they couldn't. I feel so badly for her because photos mean so much to her (like they do me... and like most of you I assume). She also lost all kinds of other documents like tax stuff, etc.
I just have folders on my computer and have them backed up on Mozy. I organize them by date. I have folders for each year and then subfolders by date. And I format them "year.month.day - event" because that keeps them in sequential order.
I rarely print photos unless I'm framing them. I've made one photo book - of our Japan trip - but only because I had a coupon code so it was really cheap. I have yet to create a wedding album, either, and I really want to. I think it's a great idea to do a baby book for every year...I think I'll definitely try to do that.
I keep all my photos on an external drive. They're pretty inexpensive and if you get a new computer down the road, your external drive can come right with it. I also use the ext. drive to back up the computer for other files, etc.
I usually organize my photos by year, then month, and then topic of photos. This has worked out well for me the past few years.
I also have photos that I share with family & friends via picasa. So there may be some photos duplicated on my ext & int. drive but at least I know that I always have the original files in one location.
Thank you all for your input! I think I'll start doing this too. I just have to come up with a system and get used to it. We have an external drive but don't use it :-/. I'll probably add doing a yearly photobook.