Are you snap happy? After vacation, a celebration or just going to dinner- are you left with an over flowing camera roll? Do you believe that a live well lived is a life well documented? What happens when documenting leaves you feeling overwhelmed?
Is it time to organize your photo life?
TIP #1- Find the favorites.
Sometimes it’s necessary to take multiple shots in order to maximize your chances of getting “the one”. For instance capturing babies (doing anything) or busy pets. The key to this is to choose your favorites right after shooting. The first thing I do is cull them — deleting any and all images that are blurry, accidental bursts, closed eyes or poorly lit. This helps me spend time editing the photos that are the ones I love the most, and it also helps me feel less overwhelmed when it’s time to choose what images I want to share to social media or print. Once I have narrowed a batch down, put all of my favorites into one folder. (When you press the star button below the photo, it goes into the already-set-up favorites folder). Then, I edit those few which best represent the moment I was trying to capture.
Action steps:
- Delete the shots that are blurry, accidental, or poorly lit
- Use the favorites feature to star all the photos you want to edit
- Delete and favorite as you go to avoid an accumulation of photos
TIP #2: Create Categories
Start using the albums tool on your phone to organize your memories. Create albums based on both the year & occasion so you have a place for every picture that is meaningful. Add photos into their corresponding album as you go — it’s so much easier to find them in there than in the depths of your camera roll. By organizing your best shots intentionally it’s easy make gifts or just find to show or refer to later (collecting photos for that renovation?).
Action steps:
- Create albums based on year & occasion
- Add photos into corresponding albums after you take them
- Make specific albums ahead of time for gifts
TIP #3: All About the Apps
Consider using a few apps to help stay organized. First, iCloud photo sharing (which is already on the iphone with iOS). Here, you can make different collections and allow others to contribute (perfect for making a shared book for a friend or family member!). Ypu can also use Google PhotoScan to scan so that all of my photos are in one place — on your phone. Also, Google Photos is a great tool for backing up / auto-organizing your photos. At the end of every few months, upload all of your photos there.
Action steps:
- iCloud photo sharing: Easily create shared albums and collections
- PhotoScan: All of your photos, in one place
- Google Photos: One-stop-shop for backing up & compiling your photos
TIP 04: Print
Creating stylish and minimal photo books straight from your phone is simple. So easy that, you can make one every year! For birthdays, milestones, holidays — anything is an excuse to print out my images. Tangible memories. You can rest easy at night knowing that your photos exist — in real life. But– they ultimately end up on an external hard drive, in case of the apocalypse. You know.
Action steps:
- Create books on a recurring basis so that it becomes habit
- Directly upload the albums on your phone into a book (the hard work of curating the images and naming the book is done for you!)
- Back up your photos on a hard drive for extra measure
TIP 05: Make a 2nd copy.
Be sure you get them saved in a 2nd location (like an external hard drive or even a USB stick). Then put that in your fire box or safe deposit box.
Don’t risk losing your family history, by keeping them ONLY on the phone.
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