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

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PerkyBoots · 20/06/2014 22:15

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?

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londonrach · 21/06/2014 08:30

Photos. (Makes note to herself re another job to do). They all on memory cards. When a card fills up I buy another card. Must sort it soon...

BertieBotts · 21/06/2014 08:32

GoingBit if you click on "threads I'm on" layer this thread will be in the list as you've posted on it.

Loads of great ideas here. I always want to do something with our photos but have never got around to it.

GoringBit · 21/06/2014 08:38

Thanks Bertie Smile

CashmereMouse · 21/06/2014 08:56

Some great ideas here, I said to DH only the other day we need to do something with ours - guess what my next job is this afternoon!

Flisspaps · 21/06/2014 09:03

whowould I think the same as your DH - tech becomes obsolete so quickly. I have a freeprints app (3.99 postage a month, 45 pics) but often get prints via snapfish/asda/Tesco online. They do 50-100 free prints for new email addresses customers Wink

Hulababy · 21/06/2014 09:43

Do t most people who use technology to store just keep updating as new stuff comes out. I still have some documents that I originally had on a floppy disk - but once I had other new methods I stored them on those instead and so on. I just update my storage methods when new options are available

BertieBotts · 21/06/2014 10:26

Me too Hula.

I like the idea of photobooks, but recently we were looking through old family albums, taking photos out, putting them in a shared album, handing them around. You can't do the same with a book. But then I can see a book would be easier to put together and perhaps more realistic that I'd actually get around to it.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 21/06/2014 10:31

On my laptop, backed up on Flickr, my favourite ones get printed and put in an album :)

Hulababy · 21/06/2014 10:35

I find the books far easier to store. They don't look out of place on a bookcase and are so much more compact too.

monkeymamma · 21/06/2014 10:40

Bookmarking for useful info!
Photo books can be my halfway-through-the-year resolution...

RedToothBrush · 21/06/2014 10:43

Organised on external hard drive.
Backed up on a second external hard drive. (Lesson learned the hard way)
Uploaded to Flickr

And I make mini photo books of all important events as its rare you look at photos stored digitally, plus you don't tend to filter/quality control digital photos.

I'm also in the process of scanning old family photos and doing the same with them, as the originals are now starting to age. Which isn't so bad with the black and white ones, but the colour ones have dulled and browned a lot so are in need of a bit of a clean up (and back up) too.

I also have some of the photos I'm most proud of framed and on the wall.

I'd say, that photos are probably one of my prized possessions due to the sentimental memories I have. So I do try and do it 'properly' rather than just stuff them somewhere and forget about them.

thegreylady · 21/06/2014 11:13

I agree photos are what I would save first after people and pets. I just have so many to sort (think suitcases full)!

eurochick · 21/06/2014 11:21

Saved on external hard drive.

I make photobooks of holidays and other big occasions, and also a "best of the rest [year]" album to sweep up all the random days out and so on.

I also have an old fashioned album that I use for my "I'm being a photographer" shots when I get a bit arty with my DSLR.

fluffyraggies · 21/06/2014 11:28

Put all photos from phones and cameras onto photo gallery on my laptop, then go through them all trying to be ruthless and delete the doubles, crapy ones, keeping the best.

I then tart up the best - red eye, trim, brighten, ect, and put them on a disk.

Then i take the disk and get the best of the best printed off to put into an album.

I use the big albums where you peel a transparent layer up and can stick down lots of pics and write by them.

JustWonderingAbout · 21/06/2014 12:37

Same.

BalconyBill · 21/06/2014 13:38

OK, I'm feeling inspired to make some photobooks as haven't done any for a couple of years. I have used snapfish in the past - is there another site that anyone recommends?

Justnapping · 21/06/2014 14:05

I make a photobook a year although since having DS I am making a couple because all the pics won't fit into one book! CEWE photoworld is the best software and amazing quality books but pretty expensive. Lidl photos uses same software but I slightly older version so I sometimes use that one as the books are around half the price!

ProfYaffle · 21/06/2014 14:54

I use Blurb.co.uk, I really like their software it's very flexible and has lots of layouts, different themes, photo borders etc. It depends if you want to 'fiddle' or not. Personally I enjoy it and it's a bit of a hobby. I did use the Lidl software once and found it awful, very little control compared to blurb but it's good if you just want to upload the photos and have it all done automatically. Horses for courses really.

RedToothBrush · 21/06/2014 15:00

I use Blurb and Snapfish.

Both have their strengths and weaknesses.

It depends on what I'm doing really. Snapfish is easier and cheaper for books around 20pages, plus its a fast service. Blurb works out cheaper for books with a lot more pages but is slower. I personally like Blurb more because I have software at home which allows me complete freedom with designing (former graphic designer) but snapfish (which has been updated and is better than previously) is still pretty damn good for simple designs.

I ALWAYS use discount codes as they have deals on so regularly.

museumum · 21/06/2014 15:04

I've made photo books in the past for big trips/travels and our wedding. Now we have ds I think we will do each calendar year (though the first will actually be 2013/14 as there aren't many from most of 2013 when I was pg).
I really enjoy making the books up and it's a great evening activity for January nights - like electronic scrapbooking.

museumum · 21/06/2014 15:04

I use cewe.

Stinkle · 21/06/2014 15:15

They're all dumped on an external hard drive. There are thousands of them. I should go through everything, delete all the guff and organise them properly but I don't know where to start.

Probably 90% is guff, I take hundreds - I took 300 odd when we were out earlier but there's probably only about 50 (kids pulling odd faces, closed eyes, trees sprouting out of heads, etc). I should really delete all the crap when I download them as the task is somewhat daunting now

The ones I really like get printed and framed. We started hanging family shots up the stairs when we moved here 10 years ago and have just kept adding to them over the years. There are hundreds, running out of space now

eurochick · 21/06/2014 19:15

I use photobox for the books. Once you have ordered one thing, they send you loads of great offers. I've also used photobox to print photos, print canvases and print on aluminium (for the bathrooms).

douchbag · 21/06/2014 19:25

It's called free prints , you get 45 free every month and just pay postage. They come really fast too x

douchbag · 21/06/2014 19:26

The picture on the apple app is of a butterfly, I would link but I'm on my phone