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ORGANIZING TIPS OF THE MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2010
Photo Organizing
Summer has ended. You took a ton of photos of fun in the sun, but they remain in your camera or piled in a drawer. It is time to organize and enjoy the memories. Photo organizing expert, Gail Shurbutt, offers these tips from my interview with her.
- Release the Photos Trapped in Your Camera: Choose photo software that will allow you to organize, cross reference, and edit photos easily. Using your computer to organize photos will set you free from many hours spent sorting, cutting, and securing pictures into albums. Creative Memories and other companies offer a variety of software to suit everyone’s preferences.
- Back It Up or Lose It: Regularly back up digital images to an external hard drive or online backup. Otherwise when your computer crashes, your photos do too.
- Out of the Bags: Find and enjoy the printed photos you have in a user friendly format rather than stashed in assorted shopping bags. Sort by date or subject, whatever system makes sense to you. Get those photos someplace you can enjoy them, whether you sort them into photo boxes or albums.
- Let It Go: You have permission to toss bad, duplicate, or meaningless photos. Keep the best, toss the rest.
- Practice Safe Storage: Protect your photos from fading, dust, and color change by storing them in archive safe boxes and albums. A locking lid prevents accidental spilling of photos.
- Space Saver Albums: If space is an issue, consider making digital scrapbooks. They are physical photo books but require a fraction of the space of a traditional album.
- For the Traditional Scrapbooker: Store scrapbook paper in acid free hanging files. Create a sticker binder of clear, polypropylene sleeves. Choose a container with compartments to hold your variety of scissors, punches, and adhesives together.
- One Stop Storage: A scrapbooking cart with wheels will hold your supplies in one organized place and easily wheel into a closet when not in use. A couple of plastic bins secured with bungee cords to a luggage cart is a budget-friendly version.
- Slip and Slide: If traditional or digital scrapbooking is not for you but you still want an album, use albums with polypropylene sleeves. Just slip the photos into pockets and enjoy a complete album in minutes.
- Journal, Journal, Journal: Use pigment-based pens for journaling and Stabilo pencils for writing on the backs of photos—never use an ink pen. Years from now you may not remember who, what, where, or when as you look at those photos. And your children certainly won’t. A picture is worth a thousand words, but you need to write the story.
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