Organizing pictures!

chag334

Sat, Jan 27 2018, 7:47 pm

Like most people I have a million pictures on my computer and Dropbox account. I never print. I NeED to get a handle on this but don’t know how. I always say I’m mane a photo book, but then I’m like “I’m not going to print ALL the pictures obviously, so what is going to happen with the rest that don’t make it in?” I start wondering if I should print all pictures and just keep them in a box? Any advice or tips? Tia

Chayap

Sun, Jan 28 2018, 9:28 am

I print pictures online at yorkphoto.com. First time this year I printed pictures on snapfish.com. because they had 1 cent sale. The regular price on yorkphoto for 4x6 prints is 9 cents per print but they have sales very often and the price is 4 cents per picture. Snapfish prices are the same. 9 cents regular and 4 cents on sale. Both sites have also different deals like free shipping or some prints for free etc. Sometimes they have 4x6 prints for 1 cent per picture! I actually saw 1 cent sale once on yorkphoto (about 2 years ago) and once on snapfish (about 3 weeks ago) so far. I discovered snapfish this year in January so I don’t know how often 1 cent sale happens. The quality of prints is great on both sides. I collect pictures I want to print in a folder on external drive and print them once a year usually sometime in January. I print about 1000 pictures a year. My husband is a photographer and of course he takes a lot of pictures of our family. I keep prints in photo storage boxes. There are probably different kinds and sizes but I buy big plastic case boxes that hold up to 1,600 ophotos in 16 small cases. Each small case holds up to 100 photos.

hopeafterloss

Tue, Feb 13 2018, 5:56 am

I try to organize my pictures like anything in my house- delete anything I dont love, then I sort by time periods (winter2017, summer 2017 etc) Then when I want to use them, slideshow etc, they can actually be of use instead of never looking at them again...

seeker

Tue, Feb 13 2018, 7:58 am

Chayap wrote:

Shutterfly is similar to Snapfish IME and they have free photo credits ALL the time.
I've also used a site called ArtsCow which has a less friendly interface but a ton of free product offers. I haven't used them in a while because I am years behind on printing anything so I'm not sure if anything's changed.

thunderstorm

Tue, Feb 13 2018, 8:21 am

I try to print photos about every six months . I spend literally an entire day downloading to Snapfish from various devices and then I pick and choose what I want to actually develop and print. I have many scrapbooks so , I print whatever photos I would like my kids to have in the future for a keepsake. I have piles of photos which have not made it into their scrapbook but at least they are not sitting in a device that will eventually break and die. Photo boxes are great for storage.