Photo Organizing Tips & Ideas

Practical, no-overwhelm help for your family photos and videos, from a Certified Professional Photo Organizer.

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Are Your Photos Really Safe? You know about some risks (fire, theft) but what about loss of use or format decay?

You have meant to deal with the family photos for years. Before another passes, here are the risks actually putting them in danger, including the ones almost no one considers.

Photo estate planning made simple: decide who inherits your family photos and how they will get access, with a free fillable workbook.

You have a will for the money and the house. But who did you name to handle 50+ years of family photos and videos? Build your photo estate plan today, free form included.

How to write on the back of old photos without ruining them, using an archival Stabilo pencil and the safe way to label prints.

Writing on the back of old photos? Skip the ink pen and sticky notes. Here's the one pencil that's actually safe, and the 4 details worth capturing before the stories are gone.

The hard truth about your family photos: what your adult kids actually want you to do with the boxes of prints and the phone full of pictures.

Organize and preserve your family photos now, while you're still here to tell the stories. Here's what your kids actually want you to do.

Safeguarding your travel photos: 5 simple ways to back up and protect vacation pictures so one lost phone never costs you the whole trip

Heading out on a trip? Learn 5 simple ways to protect travel photos from theft, loss, and corrupted memory cards before you pack your bags.

Preserving your dad's story before it is too late: how to capture the names, places, and stories behind old family photos while you still can.

Preserving old family photos matters most while your dad can still tell the stories behind them. A reflection on fathers, memory, and time.

Where are all your digital photos hiding? A room-by-room, device-by-device checklist to gather every family photo into one place.

Do you know where all your digital photos are? Learn where digital photos hide and how to start consolidating them into one organized, backed-up collection.

How one family turned boxes of loose photos and slides into an organized four-generation digital archive.

Daniel thought he had a few boxes. What he actually had was four generations of family history — and a legacy project that would change what his whole family thought was lost forever.