To wonder what you do with all the photos you take?

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I don't know why this is bothering me so much but it is! I want to organise my photos but it seems like such a large daunting task as I've taken 1000s over the past few years.

In the new age of digital pics, I'm wondering what the best approach is to store and display photos?

I created photo books. It's a painful task but so useful because you get to actually view them without trawling through 1000s. I have those digital frames but you actually never use them.

I've recently downloaded an app where u can print off 45 prints a month from your phone fb , Instagram etc for just the price of delivery 3.99 I love it as I feel my pictures are finally being used well kind of lol

I've got that app too douchbagmy photos mainly 'live' in cyber space, although I print some and scrapbook them. I have some in frames in my house. and am planning to update my photo albums i've been saying that for about 5 years

I make one photobook for each calendar year. I tend to make it throughout the year, adding pages online after each holiday or event. I send it to print on 1 Jan each year.

I put my camera photos onto disc, edit them then get them printed off.I put them into albums sporadically - it's one of my favourite jobs!
The ones on my phone I print off through an app called printic. The app was a nightmare at first but their customer service has been brilliant and ended up with a few of their boxes of 50 Polaroid style prints. The quality isn't amazing, but for something like £13 a box, I'm happy enough. And they usually have 25% off codes so rarely pay full price.

I buy smash books from k and co and stick them in with some handwriting about the photo. so far I have done our wedding one, holiday, family and waiting on a baby smash book arriving.

they fit in my handbag and come with pen/glue stick so I don't need to remember to pack a seperate pen

Print them out and put them into real photo albums :) prized possessions :)

They are filed on my computer in neat little folders like so:

2014

• DD Birth (date)
• DD Bath (date)
• DD (date)
• DD (date)
• Easter (date)

and so on. Have you tried shutterfly? They'll auto arrange your favorite photos for you in a book that you can just print out. :) I'll probably be doing that for when DD turns one.

Then again, I still have a wedding album 3+ years in the making that I haven't finished yet either. One day...

Oh, snapfish does it too, but I'm partial to shutterfly for some reason. I'm not sure what that reason is, as I decided it many years ago. It probably had to do with a combination of shutterfly being more flexible with design and cheaper.

I'm quite ruthless with photos and only keep a smallish fraction. Ones we want to keep get stored onto our NAS, we have an automated back up from there onto a cloud service. Then we take random backups onto another external disk.

We can connect to the NAS through our tv, tablets, laptops, blah blahs.
Some silly phone photos reside only on Facebook as updates. I do check occasionally and save any that we really want to keep.

We store them in a basic file structure. I'll start each folder with the year, then a description. 2014 Summer Holiday, 2014 Christmas, 2014 Misc etc. i've experimented with different software in the past but when viewing the same digital image through different apps and devices a simple file structure has worked best for us.

I keep intending to print out a selection of photos to pu I'm collage style photo frames.

Douchbag what app is that? Thanks

ignore most of them

I make photobooks from the best ones, and for any significant events like holidays, so like albums in a way but as a book.

Then I print others up that I like, to be framed and added to our photo wall which gets changed regularly.

The rest are organised by year and event or date on our hard drive, backed up on a few others.

I get ours printed and put into traditional style photo albums. My DHs field of work is in digitisation of archives and records and he is always on about how this generation of children will be the first since popular photography who do not have photos of their childhood as few people print them out. Once technology moves on it is very difficult to access them - for example hardly anyone now would be able to easily get (a) the computer hardware or (b) the software to access the content of a 7 and a half inch floppy disc. In another twenty or so years accessing such content could become very specialist.

I scrapbook, but first they are stored by month on an external hard drive.

Another annual photobook here, tho I don't tend to start it until the new year. Photos get saved by month on our computer and backed up too. Love being able to pull them down for a quick look when we're reminiscing!

Most of the photos from about the last 7 years have been stored on either the desktop computer or DD's laptop (since we got a digital camera)

Haven't put photos in a photo album/scrapbook in about a decade.

I'm old fashioned. I pick the best ones and get them printed, then I put them in an album. a proper old fashioned album that will stand the test of time. The very best ones I frame.

I keep them on my iphone and look at them!
When I am stuck anywhere I flick through them and it always cheers me up. Before they were on the computer but never looked at and impossible to locate.

I keep saying I want one of those digital frames that you can load the best photos on and set to change every so often.

Then Id take a few nice photos from the computer and enjoy them rather than sitting there buried in my directory structure!

Can anyone tell me how to mark this thread (on iPhone) please? Am currently on holiday and taking too many photos, there's a lot of useful information here that I can't do anything with yet, but would like to come back to when I'm home. Thanks.

We got a canvas printed via groupon - you can upload up to 150 photographs and the company arranges them in a random pattern. The pictures are only small - not much bigger than passport size but every time I pass the canvas, I notice a different picture. A great way of having loads of family photos on display at once.

In terms of storage - husband is weird and actually likes sorting/arranging them into folders. He stores them on sky drive I think as well a backing up on to discs now and then.

Mine are all digital. I even scanned all the ones I had pre digital camera.

They are organised in files on my laptop with names and dates.

The picture file is my screensaver as my laptops on almost all the time.

Once a year I get a photo book done for that year with key events and photos.

After a main holiday I will do a photo book generally too.

Have a handful printed in photo frames.

All of the above! I do a photobook per year (adding pages to it through the year as we go along), plus I have them organised in folders on my laptop and backed up on Google drive too.

Another photo booker here.
I use photobox. Regularly down load my sd card onto computer and photobox Although I am not very organised about it as total technophobe so end up repeating uploads of same photos all the time as I can't bear to delete off sd card.
I made a photobook of all my snaps for the last 5 years they had never done anything with last year. One or two pages for each event/ holiday. It was a labor of love. Going to start doing yearly ones especially as I now have a son.
Also print off a lot of my favourites which I intend to put on a traditional album at some point as still haven't made up my mind which I like best - prints or photobooks