Do you have ONE system either in your computer for digital photos, or a system of organizing your printed photos?
Organizing is easy as the ABCs!!
Where do you start if organizing digital photos?
- Choose your software - find a program that is easy to understand and use
- Sort your photos
- Organize by theme/chronologically {whatever makes sense to you and STICK with it}
There are great organizing tools either in your computer or that you can purchase through Photo Organizing Solutions. If you want a software that has facial recognition, is easy to learn and can handle thousands of photos, I would suggest that you look at Historian (registered trademark) Software. There is a link on my website where you can check it out and even give it a try FREE for 30 days.
Where do you start if organizing printed photos?
Basically you will start in much the same way as above, but using the ABCs method.
A - stands for Album - these photos are your most important and belong in an album.
B - stands for Box - important enough to keep stored in archive quality boxes for long term storage.
C - stands for Can - Yes you can put these in the 'trash can' or delete from your computer. These would be duplicates, blurry or unflattering photos, etc.
S - stands for Story - does that photo tell a STORY? Keep any photos that clearly tell a story that needs to be remembered by family members in the future.