Posts by Andi Willis
2024 Photo Organizing Blog Roundup
In the last year we’ve published 16 blog posts chock full of helpful and actionable tips for more organized photos. Which one was your favorite?
Read MoreWhy You Must Scan Your Framed Photos
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…
Read More3 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. Use Your Phone or…
Read MoreHow to Verify Your Computer Backups Easily
Don’t wait until it’s too late to check your automatic computer and photo backup systems. It’s important to check them regularly to be sure they are working as intended and it’s not hard to do.
Read MoreWhat Should You Do With Your Family Videos?
Let me guess: somewhere in your house is a box of family video tapes you haven’t watched in over 20 years or film reels you’ve never watched. You are NOT alone! Many people have old VHS tapes, miniDV cassettes, and even reels of film hidden away, and that makes us so sad. Think of all…
Read More25+ 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. You…
Read MoreWhy 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…
Read MorePhoto Books: Capturing Life’s Everyday Moments, Not Just Milestones
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. I went through that while making a photo book for my daughter…
Read MoreDon’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. I remember my grandparents pulling out the slide projector and screen at a family gathering and enduring hours of click-click, picture-picture, blah-blah-blah. Ok, I was 5 so it was probably more…
Read MoreHow to Preserve and Share Your Vintage 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. Scanning Photo Albums and Scrapbooks One of the best ways to preserve your old photo albums or scrapbooks…
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