On the last day of the month(or sometimes the first day of the month),I don't stress if I am a day early or a day late. I take my memory card down to my local Wal*Mart and put our photos on CD. Lets face it, I am at my local Wal*mart a few times a week replenishing our milk, yogurt and bread supply :-). It makes it easy for me to remember to save my photos to CD each month. I love that the CD comes back to me with some thumbprints of the photos that were taken that month right on the CD. You also receive index sheets with a thumbprint photo of every picture that has been downloaded to that CD. Once I receive my CD with the thumbprint index sheets, I take my American Crafts Slick Writer and print the date & events that are on each CD right onto the sheet protector/index sheets. I will occasionally put the ages of each family member on there too. Saves me time with my math at a later date :-).
From there, each month is placed in a little black binder that can be purchased at Wal*Mart.
From there, I place the little album on a shelf in my scrapbook room with all of the other binders. I store our photo CD's by year. It makes finding a certain picture for reprints a snap.
One helpful tip/reminder is to delete the photos that you are not wanting to save. I take a lot of photos of my scrapbook projects/layouts for the GTKC. I certainly don't need 10 detail shots of each layout. Deleting those photos before having them put onto CD makes it so I don't have a ton of unwanted photos stored on my CD's.
This is the one system that has worked for me. I would die if my computer ever crashed...but I would not be heart broken because of the simple fact that all of my photos have been saved elsewhere and not just on my computer :-).
I hope this was helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions :-).
5 comments:
Amazing. I just store mine on my computer and hope the pictures are safe. I'm kind of thinking that might not be so smart now.
This is a great idea, Raimi! I store my pictures on my computer's home server, snapfish and/or Costco.com. But I only print them when I need them, and I forget which ones I printed and where I uploaded them (Snap or Coscto?) so I have to go to both programs to figure it out. I like this idea, and may need to start implementing this! Thanks!
I love that idea! I have to tell you that I had ALL of my pictures saved on my brother-in-law's hardrive while I waited to get my own, and his quit working, and instead of waiting to let me take it in and get it fixed so I could get my pictures off like I asked him to, he went in and exchanged it. I lost ALL of those photos, and I was heartbroken. So I need a good way to store my pictures.
What a fantastic idea, Raimi. I love how you are so organized and that you pass your ideas on to us all!
thank you ! thank you! On my way to WalMart!
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