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Post by katlady on Feb 6, 2016 21:04:58 GMT
As I am going through iPhoto, getting ready to make a photo book of a recent trip, it got me to thinking about saving ALL the photos, forever and ever. We tend to take so many pictures now because it is easy and cheap with the digital camera. 30 years from now, are you, or your family members, going to want to look through thousands and thousands of digital files? I can't imagine that. It has been about 10 years now of really using only digital film, and I am already thinking of what to do with so many files. Maybe I will put the ones that I really love and treasure in a special file. And if the rest ever got "lost" for some reason (corruption, accidental erasure, hard drive failure), I won't be as upset. Does anyone else ever think about this?
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Feb 6, 2016 21:14:04 GMT
Since I come from the era of film & negatives, digital is a godsend as far as storage goes. I have boxes of old photos & negatives that I just can't bring myself to let go of, so keeping them on the computer is a non-issue for me. I do go thru them when ordering my prints and delete the duplicates & bad shots, so I plan on keeping the rest for as long as I'm around. Like my scrapbooks, after I'm 6 feet under, my boys are free to do w/them what they like.
I have noticed my boys (they're teens) don't look at my scrapbooks as often as they used to, but will sit down at the PC and go thru the photos on there. That's enough reason for me to keep them.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Feb 7, 2016 2:47:24 GMT
I'm on a major clean out of my house this year and one of my goals is to tackle my digital storage including photos. I am terrible at deleting the duplicates and at keeping random photos on my phone (like photos of an especially good meal or something I saw in a shop that I may want to go back and buy). And it can make it challenging to go back and find the truly meaningful photos in my collection.
I'll be interested to see what others do.
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 7, 2016 2:57:44 GMT
I'm at a loss for how to handle this. I have some on my hard drive, some on flash drives, some on CD's, and some backed up on Shutterfly. It's a mess.
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Post by katlady on Feb 7, 2016 4:47:53 GMT
Sometimes I miss the simplicity of film. At least it was easier to sort and store your pictures/negatives. There weren't so many storage options!  |
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Post by kristi on Feb 7, 2016 5:04:22 GMT
I go into past year photo folders & delete ones that don't move me.
I delete pictures that have 2 or 3 of the same thing just different pose. I keep the best one & move on.
I also delete a lot of stuff that I took pictures of for project life that were used in my book & no longer needed.
I have a folder called fav photos & it has a copy of all my favorites. I use it as my screen saver. I have offsite back up of those.
While we take more photos than every, I think it is important to not keep blurry/eyes closed/duplicate pictures just for the sake of having them. Keep the ones you love & get rid of the rest.
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Post by amom23 on Feb 7, 2016 15:57:47 GMT
I love digital because you can instantly know if you got a blurry shot or if someone's eyes are closed. Obviously those get deleted. All of my worthy photos get saved to CD's and Shutterfly. Of course I have photos on my computer. Don't really give them a lot of thought. I take a lot of photos with my cell phone. Those get uploaded to Shutterfly and printed. I have no problems deleting photos from my phone.
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Post by swimmergirl on Feb 7, 2016 16:38:28 GMT
The free photo organizing software Picasa might help you feel like your photo collection is much more manageable by allowing you to tag, sort countless ways, mark favorite photos with Star, and helping to identify duplicates.
A little surprised by Amom23 deleting them just because of closed eyes, parts blurry. Some of my best favorites have been photoshop-ed together using parts and pieces of shots that were disappointing because one person had closed eyes or a unappealing look on their face
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Feb 8, 2016 8:00:27 GMT
I have a folder called fav photos & it has a copy of all my favorites. I use it as my screen saver. Now this is a great idea! |
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Post by anonrefugee on Feb 8, 2016 14:30:19 GMT
I delete poor shots as I go, and have gotten a little more ruthless each year.
I stopped "organizing" them with tags a few years ago during a computer problem- and really regret it!
But I can't see me going backwards and cleaning up old files. I'm having difficult enough time keeping up with my life right now.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 8, 2016 15:12:57 GMT
I use Scraproom software and just started using Gather recently which is also from Scraproom Software. I like them, especially the compare feature that lets you look at two similar shots side by side so you can decide which one you like better. You can also categorize, tag and rate your photos and do some editing as well. My problem is that I need to make it a priority to get all of my photos in there. I've been working on it but not regularly enough to get out from under it. It's just hard when I have a million other things to do. |
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Post by anniefb on Feb 8, 2016 18:59:00 GMT
I have lots of duplicates and random shots I really don't need to keep forever. One of my goals is to declutter my craft room this year, so think I'll add my photos into the mix. I have them on my Mac plus backed up to both Fropbox and Flickr so it might take me a while  |
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