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Post by merry27 on Feb 11, 2019 21:53:06 GMT
I’m in the process of getting all my photos in to one place and organized. I want to put them into albums. Any recommendations on regular photo albums? I thought about making photo books too. What do you do with your photos?
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Post by lucyg on Feb 11, 2019 21:56:46 GMT
You could get albums at the scrapbook store along with pocket pages instead of protectors for 12x12 pages.
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Post by scrappintoee on Feb 11, 2019 22:24:17 GMT
I used to scrapbook A LOT and have MANY scrapbooks full of layouts; however, to answer your question--- for MANY other photos, they are just in regular, simple albums that have those slots that are easy to put photos in, and also easy to take out. Also, for events that have a lot of similar shots, I sometimes put many photos in one slot to save space. Many years ago, I also had the fun task of moving my childhood/ teenage photos from those yellow, sticky acid-filled albums into new albums. I was so glad that all (or at least MOST?) albums you buy these days are acid and lignin-free, and unlike a scrapbooking album, regular albums are not expensive at all. I got several cute albums that hold A TON of photos for about $8.00; you can find them everywhere. Also....(deep breath....there are SOO MANY!!!  ) the rest are in photo storage boxes, organized chronologically. Ugh, when I look at alllllll the albums, scrapbooks, and boxes full of photos in my closet, I get overwhelmed and AMAZED at how technology has changed everything !!!!! But I AM thankful for all those precious photos! Annnd....in case of fire/ flooding, or other "FUN" natural disaster, we have also scanned and/or taken photos of MANY, MANY precious photos and layouts and put them on extra zip drives, and DH keeps one at his office. Everyone in my family also has CDs (...wait.....did I just say CDs?  ......we did this quite a while ago...LOL!) of many of our childhood photos, scanned pages of the layouts from my heritage album, etc. We did allll of that before the cloud  |
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 11, 2019 22:48:32 GMT
I’m in the process of getting all my photos in to one place and organized. I want to put them into albums. Any recommendations on regular photo albums? I thought about making photo books too. What do you do with your photos? Are you talking about older pre-digital photos? Or digital photos that have been printed? Or digital photos still sitting on your computer? All of my pre-digital photos are in photo albums with sleeves - 6 to an opening. If I didn't want to scrap my digital photos, I would make photo books rather than printing out all the photos and putting them in albums. Photo books take up so much less room. And I think they're more interesting to look at. |
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Post by slowrunner70 on Feb 11, 2019 23:00:33 GMT
For some reason I can't seem to find time to scrapbook anymore...
So instead, I now make photo books.
My go to website is Shutterfly.
Combine with a Groupon deal for a photo book, wait for unlimited free pages promo from Shutterfly (in this case, "unlimited" means anything up to 111 pages... not sure why that is their limit), just pay for your Groupon and shipping charges.
Also, with the unlimited free pages promo, I let the Shutterfly software place my pictures automatically.
Afterwards, I go over it and edit as needed.
So much faster!
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Post by annabella on Feb 11, 2019 23:21:54 GMT
I’ve been making photo books for the last few years from mixbook.com don’t care for Shutterfly.
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Post by snyder on Feb 11, 2019 23:44:18 GMT
My old photos are in albums, but the newer stuff, I have made photo-books through Shutterfly. Not as much as they use to, but Coke Rewards often has free books for entering Coke Codes found inside the bottle cap or printed inside cartons of 12-24 paks. There are other places that offer free books as well. Kellogg's Family Rewards and I believe I have gotten one or two from Kohl's. I create the book and sit on it until I have a great code to get deep discounts before ordering. On free books, just pay shipping or a few extra dollars for extra pages.
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Post by birdy on Feb 12, 2019 0:58:46 GMT
I used to love to scrapbook. DS has probably 10 albums 12x12.
DD (youngest) has 1... poor kiddo. I'm scrapping her 1st year and splitting it into 2 albums so that she has at least 2 that I made, but I'm not enjoying it anymore.
Starting with the year after dd was born, I started making 2 scrapbooks per year (January - June and then July - December) for each year. I do 8x8 on Shutterfly. That, I can handle!
My mom is doing 12x12 albums with the 6 pocket page protectors b/c she doesn't scrapbook.
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Post by femalebusiness on Feb 12, 2019 1:27:17 GMT
I have a few photos framed. All the rest are in plastic bins, sorted into subject and date. I have a LOT of photos as my dad was a photographer and took a zillion pictures from the day I was born, mostly black & white.
I have about six old albums from when I was first married, with the sticky stiff and clear plastic over the pictures. I can't get them out of those albums in one piece but years ago I scanned the pages and ran the pictures through Photoshop to color corect and sharpen them as much as I could. Those are on cds now. I still have the albums but they are in bad shape.
The old black & white pictures are the best. So glad that I have them.
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Post by calgaryscrapper on Feb 12, 2019 4:12:04 GMT
Michael’s sells photo albums
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) the rest are in photo storage boxes, organized
......we did this quite a while ago...LOL!) of many of our childhood photos, scanned pages of the layouts from my heritage album, etc.
