Welcome to Good Life Photo Solutions
Good Life Photo Solutions grew out of my previous home organizing business, Good Life Organizing, which I founded in 2010. As I worked with clients in their homes, we frequently found drawers full of photos, bins overflowing with developing envelopes, and shelves groaning under the weight of photo albums. And this didn’t even count the digital clutter we discovered on old cell phones, outdated computers, and baggies full of SD cards and photo CDs.
As I worked with clients to organize and preserve these precious images, I realized that this was a true passion of mine. After all, your photos are your memories, your life, your legacy. And what is more important?
Fast forward to January 2018, and I launched Good Life Photo Solutions to assist clients and others with preserving their photos and making their memories last. My services include photo organizing for print and digital photos, personal photo coaching, and scanning (of photos, slides, negatives, photo albums, and scrapbooks).
My main goal is to help you save your photos, find that special photo when you need it, and get your photos off your phone (or out of the box) and back into your life.
While my previous blog focused primarily on organizing your home, this blog will, of course, focus on ways to organize, preserve, and enjoy your cherished photos. I’ve brainstormed a ton of ideas that I want to write about, including:
- Safe photo storage
- Using your Apple products to organize your photos
- Product reviews
- Photo gift ideas
- How to back up your photos
- Digital decluttering
- How to capture a life story through photos
But I also want to know what YOU would like to learn more about. The more specific, the better. Please send me your biggest photo organizing struggle, and I’ll try to address it in a future blog post.
Again, thank you for visiting, and please share Good Life Photo Solutions with your friends and family.
About the Author
Andi Willis started Good Life Photo Solutions after searching for photos of her late father and realizing how easily a family’s memories can slip away. Now a Certified Professional Photo Organizer with more than 15 years of experience, she helps families across the country bring order to overwhelming photo chaos and preserve the stories that matter most. She works from Smithfield, Virginia.
If your own photos feel like too much to face alone, that is exactly the kind of puzzle we solve.
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My way (in short):
1) Scan / digitize all your pictures / negatives / dia’s.
2) Put them all in one folder on your computer
3) Rename your files with date (YYYYMMDD) space additional information.
3a) Use the birth date of the oldest person on the picture as date (YYYYMMDD) space followed by a reference to the physical loation of the Original as filename (typical applicable for prints and negatives where the date of capture is unkwown, but the identity of the pctured persons is known).
3b) Use the capture date of the picture space capture time (HHMMSS) for the filename (typical for digital pictures, but keep your camerea clock on time).
4) Tag your pictures with date of birth of the pictured persons and name of birth). For instance 19430118 Filippus Tepper (face recognition is very helpfull in this respect).
5) Make an index in your word processor with all persons tagged as above. By using the birth date in front of the birth name the index can be easy sorted on birth date. People that lived in the same time are shown close together.
6) Extend the index as follows: Birth date- Date of birth- date of pass away- location of birth-location of pass away- location of graveyard M:Birthdate and birth name of the mother-F: Idem Father-P: Idem Partner- D: Daughter-S:Son (insequencw of appearance.
Merits: pictured people are related to your family tree and your family tree is related to the pictured people. By using the combination of birth date and birth name for identification becomes your photocollection futureproof
7) Remind that the scan date of a picture / negative is not the date of capture.
That looks like a great workflow! Thank you for sharing.
Wow! I hope you don’t mind if I copy all of that! Great ideas, I never would have even thought of! Esp the family tree, DOB/DOD. Thank you.