Comments on: Getting the pictures organized….FINALLY

By: I’m an Organizing Junkie » Love your pictures again…

I’m an Organizing Junkie » Love your pictures again… — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:08:07 +0000

[...] Getting my pictures organized [...]

By: Joely

Joely — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:14:51 +0000

WOW-Alot of great ideas. I to am a scrapbooker. Before digital days all mine were printed with doubles I would get a copy & then a copy would go to moms for safe-keeping. Mine are all dated & names on them & organized in photo boxes. Then I went digital, all pictures go onto a cd for me, one for moms house then goes onto my external hard drive for safekeeping. These to are all organized by date I keep the cd’s in photo boxes. I only print the pictures that go into our albums or that I want in frames. My frame pictures are rotated out with recent pictures at least once a year sometimes seasonally (depending on how motivated I am). I also have a slideshow of our pictures on our computer.

By: Veggiemomof2

Veggiemomof2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:55:53 +0000

(just shakes her head) this is a huge trouble spot for me. I do try to print out each event like birthdays & keep them together planning to scrap them, but they are here, there & everywhere. I’m thinking that should be your next big organizational challenge!

By: GiBee

GiBee — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:38:22 +0000

One more thing… where did you get those adorable magazine boxes???

By: GiBee

GiBee — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:37:35 +0000

If you still want to use Costco, you can have them developed at the Costco close to your parents house — you just log into the photo section of Costco and select that particular store while you’re on line (did that make sense?), and maybe your parents can pick them up and mail them to you. For an extra $2.50 or so, they’ll even burn them onto CDs for you!!!

By: Abby

Abby — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:22:28 +0000

Wow! That looks really nice. I actually did this 2 years ago for my mom for my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary. They had several large boxes of pictures, and I spent a couple weeks organizing them into photo boxes for her. She only has 3 or 4 boxes, plus a clear file folder box for the larger portraits, in comparison to the large box that was filled with disorganized photos that she had before. I love going through old family pictures, and now that these are organized, it makes it so much easier to find one if we need it for an album or special occasion.

By: LisaC

LisaC — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:37:00 +0000

Leave them in the computer and watch slide shows. I used to think this was lazy, but now I am going to call it my system and be proud that I have one! :)

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:25:14 +0000

Laura,

As I read your post, I am currently working on my digital photo organization as I type! :-) I am so thankful that I have found a one-stop place for all of my photo organization, scrapbooking and memory preservation needs!!! I am using Creative Memories’ Memory Manager software which not only stores all of your photos, but can be organized into albums, AUTOMATICALLY organizes them by date and has a timeline that you can use to easily access them…the list of awesome features goes on and on! And…it’s about $40. You can categorize your photos by how great they are – 1 – 5 *, you can assign one image to several different album projects you want to put it in down the road…it doesn’t create another actual copy, just knows to access that file when it opens up that particular “album” in the software program. Cool!!!

Then…I can easily use their StoryBook Creator software to do digital albums (either the free basic software or upgrade for tons of creative options for about $60)! I can easily send them off to friends and family, or to have them printed wherever I want them printed!

Then…I can simply look into the organized albums and sort “boxes” in the computer and choose which ones I want to print and use in traditional scrapbooking or to put in frames.

All of my printed photos are organized in CM’s Power Sort Boxes, labeled, and safe until I’m ready to put them in albums. It’s so freeing – to have them all in the same categorization system – whether on the computer or the hard, tangible sort boxes! It’s really slick, and I’m SO thankful that the Lord brought this into my lap!!!

Many blessings to you – thanks for all you do for us!

By: Megan@Disorder2Order

Megan@Disorder2Order — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:45:54 +0000

Good grief… posting a comment is like reading the declaration of independence! Anywho… I love all the suggestions and ideas. I am a scrapbooker so for me the time I spend doing my books is what I love most. However, I decided in 2008 that I was going to do a page for each month. I take way to many pictures and by the time the kids are 15 I will have over 100 books. Talk about clutter… So my dilemma was solved by an article I read about doing just one page for each month. However, I do have my pictures as my screen saver… not to mention I print some “extras” for the boys to play around with! That’s it… in God We Trust! :D

P.S. Sure do like reading your posts girlfriend!

By: BrownEyedGirl

BrownEyedGirl — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:56:49 +0000

We always upload them to the computer and store them there. We also have photo boxes to store some. And then, of course, there’s the hope for organization levels so extreme that I’ll get around to scrapbooking with the printed ones. (Hardly happens though.)