Konul from The Light Within Photography asked, "How do you organize your digital and print photos? Also, how do you do backups, how often and how many personal photos do you print?"
I have an elaborate system of folders. I have a folder for each year, e.g. "2009".
Then within that folder I have 12 folders, one for each month, e.g. "01 2009".
Then within each month the pictures are each named with the date (year, month, day) and title, e.g.
2009 02 15 Boys playing outside 01
2009 02 15 Boys playing outside 02
2009 02 15 Boys playing outside 03
2009 02 15 Boys playing outside 04
2009 02 18 Baking brownies 01
2009 02 18 Baking brownies 02
Those are how I organise all of the family photos. I have a separate folder for nature and food shots and they are divided into Nature, Odds, Food, etc folders and each file is named accordingly, e.g.
Cupcake 01
Cupcake 02
Vegetables 01
Vegetables 02
Vegetables 03
My pictures live on my hard drive which is periodically backed up to an external hard drive. I also upload my family pictures to my online lab (Photobox) so they are stored there too. I used to back my files up on DVD as well but gave up on that after a couple of disks came up blank a while later. I just don't trust them.
As for how many I print, I used to print and scrapbook each and every photo (or near enough). I just can't keep up with that anymore so am now in the process of creating a Blurb book (like this) for each year.
I organise my photos exactly the same which works just fine, however I don't have separate folders for other shots, food etc. Good idea, might just try that one.
ReplyDeleteI looked at your blurb post and love the idea of a yearly book with monthly chapters, again something I might work on.
I once started on a blurb book about our last holiday but my hard drive crashed, I lost the whole thing and never started again. Now I feel inspired to fire up the software and start one.
Thanks for answering my question Jen! Can I ask what backup software do you use? I recently had a major fiasco with my backups, and now I'm trying to figure out a better way to do it. If you have any other tips, they'd be greatly appreciated too!
ReplyDeleteGrant handles the backing up but I do know we use SyncBack - just don't ask me how!
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