Where to store digital pictures?

Mothers

Sat, Jul 29 2017, 7:52 pm

Shutterfly. I upload them into folders (by month), and then I can easily use them to make photo books and other photo projects, which I order when they have sales (which are frequent). They have the best customer service, and they guarantee not to ever delete your pictures.

Amarante

Sat, Jul 29 2017, 10:05 pm

I save redundantly - I automatically back up every hour on an external hard drive.

I also backup on my cloud storage so it's not lost if something catastrophic happens - this would mean fire or complete demolition of my home since my photos are on my computer and the external backup drive. There are also photos on my phone but I don't think of these are backup but just the ones I haven't backed up and deleted yet or which I otherwise want to keep on my phone.

Organization is a different matter. I use Apple's Photo App on my computer and it has a lot of automatic organization tools built in. I can also organize into albums which is much more of picking the best photos of a trip, year, event etc. and putting it in a digital album the way people would use photo albums of real photos.

If you want to go really crazy, you can use a digital scrapbook program but that is way too Martha Stewart for me. However, I have seen some amazing results.