Comments on: How to Organize Photos and Get Them Off Your Devices – Photobook Series Part I

By: Things to include in photobooks - 10 Fun and Creative Ideas!

Things to include in photobooks - 10 Fun and Creative Ideas! — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:28:19 +0000

[…] about my love of photobooks. I create a family yearbook every year, and a while back, I took you step by step through the process of how I create them. I also shared a post about some fun ideas or themes to use when you create […]

By: Barbara Marrin

Barbara Marrin — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:28:56 +0000

I guess I’m not far off the mark because this is exactly the way I organized my digital photo’s from the time my daughter was born (1997) because it just made the most sense. Then the computer crashed. Thankfully I had 3.5 floppy backups (remember those little discs?). I now have prints of every photo I could retrieve AND backups on Amazon cloud. The prints I organized in 3-ring binders with photosafe refill photo pages and put in a large d-ring 3-ring binder for ease in locating as I worked on scrapbooking pages (I go digital for these too). I have 4 five inch 3-ring binders with each binder separated by year/month with simple school-type binder dividers between years/months. I scanned school photo’s to place in the appropriate year/month as well. The only issue is the larger’landscape view’ photo’s which can be cropped after scanning. The 3-ring binders I store on the top shelf of my closet for safekeeping and in case we need to leave urgently due to fire/earthquake.
Yes, it’s a time consuming task, especially the ‘hard copies’ that need to be scanned, but well worth the preservation effort. I still have a family photo of my great-grandparents 60th wedding anniversary and I have saved that as well in the same manner. 35 mm pics can be converted to print with snapfish or other digital services for mere pennies. I highly recommend Snapfish -good quality photo’s for minimal cost. You even get the 35mm slide back unharmed!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:47:49 +0000

In reply to Stacey.

Hi there!
Most of my photos are digital – I bought a digitl camera when my daughter was 6 months old, so ever since then, everything has been digital. However, we wanted to create a family album recently with photos from our childhood, and we actually digitized all of them. It is a bit of an investment, but I am glad to know that myself and my siblings all have digital copies of those photos should anything happen to the original. There are few options for digitizing – the first being scanning them yourself, which is a lot of work! We went with the second option, which was to have a professional do them for us. We used http://www.getitdonephotosolutions.com/, which is local to us, but I am sure there are professionals around who do it. I split the cost with siblings, but even then, as I mentioned, it is a bit of an investment. Staples also does this sort of thing, and maybe Costco, and they charge by the hour. Depending on the amount of photos you have, you would have to determine if a per photo or per hour rate is best for you (we went with a per photo rate, and we had about 2500 pictures). Always ask them how they give your photos to you (ie… usb stick, archival quality dvd rom, etc) and also ask about insurance while they have your photos in their possession. DPI is also important – I think ours were scanned at 600 DPI. I hope that helps and if you have any other questions, I’d be more than happy to try to help!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:24:45 +0000

So curious – how did you get transfer all your photos to your computer. Were they all digital to start with? I have MANY that are already printed, but no digital version – any recommendations?