Do you still print pictures i.e. have photo albums?

Oh are we supposed to print them ugh no one told me that geez lol!

Yeah count me as one of those that has more photos on sticks, hard drives etc then in albums. Ugh I used to be so good about putting my photos into recognizable files ie Spencer's 12th birthday, now it is photos 2014(1) photos 2014 (2)lol and most of those files have like 500 random ass photos in them with good ones mixed with crappy ones.

Ugh I feel for you and have thought of doing the same task you are thinking of but I keep procrastinating on doing it!

My ultimate goal would be to Project life all my photos and do just simple journaling and cards with the photos in pocket type sleeves and be done with it.

Oh and did I mention that I have 12 yes 12 photo boxes of photos too that don't have a home other then the box they are stored in ugh it is just so overwhelming.

My tip although why you would want a tip from me lol is this start by culling all the photos you know you would never print.

After doing that then I would try to put them in more recognizable files if they aren't already like that.

You then would at least be able to print the ones you want and go from there.

Good luck!

I actively scrapbook, so yes, I definitely print pictures all the time.

I do still have a lot on my computer and one thing I did to help myself keep everything straight is to create a spreadsheet.  The first column is where I write the date I uploaded them to the computer.  The rest are for checkmarks for when I do the following:  Edit (this includes deleting doubles & bad shots, cropping, removing red eye, etc.), Upload to Snapfish, Order photos.

This has made keeping track so much easier for me.

I do. I wait until Clark has a good sale and I upload several months worth at a time. I am about a year and a half behind actually getting them into the albums though.

I'm supposed to... I've lost track the last two years.

I do, but I'm very behind. I mostly put them in photo albums for the boys but still dabble in some Project Life style sprucing up of the pages. I haven't truly scrapbooked in almost 5 years.

I found an offer on Facebook last week for 100 free prints a month from SnapFish for downloading their app onto my phone. I downloaded the app and uploaded some photos. A couple days later a message appeared in the app "You Did It! Thank you for being a Snapfish mobile customer. Enjoy 100 free prints each month for a year." In fine print: No coupon code needed. Mobile only. (I haven't tried to upload to my account from my computer and then order those photos from the mobile app yet.) Unused credits will expire at the end of the month. So, I'll try to upload some from my computer when I get a minute and see if I can print those through the app. If so, I'll be catching up on some printing. If not, I still take a ton of print worthy shots on my phone. Maybe not 100 a month, but free prints are free prints.

I hope that offer is still good!!  My phone camera is so good that I can take a picture of a picture in my mom's albums and it looks amazing.

This!

but one question i need to research is this - are there good photo albums available still? i really liked the pioneer (leather) albums that were recommended for stacy julian's LOM. off to google search right now...

 I haven't printed / scrapped as many photos as I would have liked to over the last handful of years because life has been conspiring against me, LOL. I haven't been able to unpack all of my stuff since we moved a couple years ago and that's been hard. But once my studio space is finished (I'm FINALLY in the process of getting my cabinets installed!!! Yay!) and I can unpack, sort through and organize everything it will be SO much easier to work on things when I have a little free time here and there. It's hard to make myself even start a page or a project when I know I only have xx number of minutes to work on it, and half of that time would be spent digging through boxes looking for things I know I've got only to have to pack it all back up again before making any real headway. Too frustrating, so I just don't even start.

Former professional photographer here. Print pictures people!! Technology changes and fails. But photos on print last. Printing is cheap and easy. Even if you don't get to albums or scrapbooks, please print.

Hopefully I will get working on this in the coming year.  I want to 
do a photo wall, so maybe that will spur me on.
I take wayyy too many pictures  Most are archived on an
external drive and some are on CDs (full).  
It's a huge task now, yikes.

Occasionally. I usually wait for Shutterfly or Snapfish to have a sale and I order about 200 a year. I like to give prints to people, too. We're in a social media world and I assume everyone sees the photos, but that's not the case. I buy my albums at Home Goods or Marshalls and they are about $12-$15 and hold 500 photos. In the days when I scrapped, I shot hundreds of photos a month, but now it's much less and I can fit a couple of years in each album.

I scrap therefore I print .