Out of Chaos an organizing newsletter
Photo Oraganization
Out of Chaos an organizing newsletter
July 2003 – Issue No. 3
Photo Organization
Here comes summer- the season of family vacations and new rolls of film, so what better time to tackle that photo album project you’ve been postponing…
There are several things to consider when you begin to think about photo storage. While it’s great to put together albums, and they’re very user-friendly, they are also far more labor intensive than storage boxes.
Albums can range from the relatively simple, with pre-sized slots to insert photos, to the more versatile scrapbook style. There are also increasingly efficient ways to organize photos digitally.
www.adobe.com (go to Photoshop Album) > organizational & editing software
www.ulead.com > organizational & editing software
www.picasa.net > organizational & editing software
www.snapfish.com > photosharing websites
www.shutterfly.com > photosharing websites
www.studioline.biz > photosharing websites
www.ofoto.com > photosharing websites
Ask yourself:
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- Do I want to be able to caption the photos?
- Do I want to be able to paste mementos into the book as well as photos?
- Are all my pictures the same size?
- Photo boxes are easy. They look neat and usually come with index cards, which you can use to label and categorize your photos.
- For a group of special pictures (a recent vacation, a family wedding) get a small photo album. Look for the style with a frame on the cover; so it can do double duty.
- Frames: A lot of us have a tendency to go out and buy a new frame every time we get a good new picture. At a certain point our tabletops begin to look Victorian in their clutter. Resist that urge and instead replace an old picture with a new one. After all, how many pictures of the family in ski-clothes do you need in one room? Tip: When you replace last year’s portrait of your child with this year’s, put last year’s in their memory book
Philosophical Considerations: Photo albums are one thing it is better to do less frequently. If you put pictures away each time you get a roll developed, you tend to keep them all. If you wait until you have four or five rolls, you will be more discriminating.