2024 Photo Organizing Blog Roundup
As the year draws to a close, what a great time to look back and revisit all the fun photo organizing things we’ve talked about throughout the year.
Let 2025 be the year of YOUR PHOTOS…organized, preserved, and shared!
What Happens to Your Photos When You Die?
It’s inevitable. Sooner or later, we are going all die. It’s a fact of life.
As a Photo Organizer, one of the things I think about is what will happen to my family’s lifetime collection of videos and photos when I die. This is not the typical thing that might come to mind when writing your will or making your final wishes known to your family. However, nowadays, having a digital estate plan and letting your intentions be known for the disposition of your family photos (digital and printed) is vitally important.
External Hard Drives Don’t Last Forever
It’s not a matter of IF your external hard drive will die, it’s a matter of WHEN.
Let’s say that again for the people in the back.
It’s not a matter of IF your external hard drive will die, it’s a matter of WHEN.
Inspiring Quotes About Photos and Photography
Photography and the photographs we take are an integral part of our lives and society today. They give us a way we look back and forward simultaneously.
Here at Good Life Photo Solutions, we have gathered some of our favorite inspiring quotes about photos and photography.
Hello! 10 Things About Andi Willis, Your Personal Photo Organizer
The essential nature of my job as a photo organizer is very, very personal. When I organize and scan a client’s precious family photos, they are often letting me into the most intimate moments of their lives.
So let’s take a few moments to get to know each other a little better.
After The Storm: Photo Recovery After A Disaster
Whether you have just had a hurricane engulf your home with floodwaters, your water heater burst or you’ve had a house fire when your photos have been damaged, you will likely need some photo recovery after the disaster. We have collected tips to help restore your memories after a disaster.
The Ultimate Guide to Dating Your Family Photos
Do you have a pile of old photos, and can’t quite figure out when the picture was taken? Anyone who has tried to organize photos, especially vintage pictures, has faced the dilemma of dating photos, whether you are a DIY-er or a trained professional photo organizer.
We asked our colleagues, the members of The Photo Managers, to share their tips and tricks for dating problematic photos. Their answers are helpful and eye-opening.
Preserve And Share Your Old Photo Albums & Scrapbooks
Do you have piles of old crumbling photo albums or shelves of beautiful, but bulky scrapbooks? Are you wondering what the best way to preserve them and share them with your family? We have a few ideas.
Don’t Let Memories Fade: Top Reasons to Scan Your Old Slides
Slides, trays of slides, boxes of slides, slide projectors, light bulbs for slide projectors…all of these things are like items from a gone-by era. Does your family have boxes and trays of slides just sitting in the closet or the attic? It is really important that you scan and digitize family slides before it’s too late and here is why.
Photo Books: They Aren’t Just for Special Occasions
Making photo books is a fun way to share photos from your recent vacation or pictures from the highlights of the past year. But sometimes there are so many photos we want to include that we get overwhelmed or completely overthink the process. We have some great out-of-the-photo-book ideas for you.
Why Should You Work With Good Life Photo Solutions?
Have you ever thought about working with the Good Life Photo Solutions team of photo organizers but are on the fence? Maybe you want to work on your photos yourself, so you aren’t sure we can help. Maybe you just don’t know where to start. Don’t worry; we’ve got you.
Here at Good Life Photo Solutions we believe that every family deserves to have a well-organized, accessible photo and memory collection. Our goal is to make our clients feel taken care of and meet their photo organizing needs.
So if you are on the fence about working with us, here are a few reasons why you should consider working with us over a big-box scanning service or trying to do it all yourself.
25+ Tips For Managing Your Memorabilia
If you feel overwhelmed when it comes to managing your boxes of memorabilia and old photos, we have some great advice for you.
We have asked several professional organizing and photo organizing colleagues for their best advice to help preserve your memories and honor your past while not being inundated by too much clutter.
What Should You Do With Your Family Videos?
My number 1 advice to people when they ask me about their old videos is “Get them converted ASAP!” There isn’t a single type of physical video (like VHS tapes, film reels, or miniDVs) that isn’t disintegrating as we speak.
So now is the time to take action to preserve your family’s video memories.
How to Verify Your Computer Backups Easily
If you have automatic computer backups in place, how do you know that your files (and photos) are really backed up?
You have often heard me say how important it is to back up your digital photos. Hopefully, you have at least one of your backups in the cloud or on an external hard drive.
When was the last time you checked to ensure that the automatic process was still working correctly?
Never? That’s what I thought. Let’s talk about doing a backup check.
Unique Photo Gift Ideas for Every Occasion
I LOVE giving a photo gift and I love sharing photo gift ideas!
A few years ago, I scanned my mother-in-law’s photo collection. At Christmas, I made her a photo book featuring old family photos of her ancestors and her immediate family, as well as pictures of her growing up in rural North Carolina and Virginia. After opening it, she called and thanked me multiple times for the book. She told me that she was taking it on a “book tour” (her words) to show her siblings and her oldest, dearest friends.
When was the last time you got that kind of reaction from a sweater or a necktie?
There is something extra special about giving a gift with a precious photo on it and your reaction to it.
3 Ways to View Your Slides Before You Scan Them
If you have boxes or projector carousels full of slides, but no way to view them, what do you do? Continue to let your slides sit unseen at the top of the closet? Let’s not. Allow us to suggest a few ways to preview your slides before you have them scanned.
Why You Must Scan Your Framed Memories
POV: You are gathering print photographs to be scanned by your favorite photo organizer. You grab the developing envelopes out of the bin in the closet and pull the old photo albums off the bookshelf. That’s about it, right?
Not so fast! There is one category of pictures that we actually forget to digitize, and ironically these usually are the most special and most important photos. These are your framed photos and it’s time to scan them now!
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