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I used to do freelance photo editing and it was not uncommon to be given up to 20,000 images from a photo agency and asked to edit it down to about 20-30 pictures for a story. Now it is highly unlikely you will ever deal with those kind of quantities, but the same editing process I used for that will also work just as well for an edit of 500 photos.
Read MoreWe are living in a constant state of digital acquisition and accumulation, and nowhere is that more evident than with our photos. Last year it was estimated that over one trillion photos were taken.
How many did you take? Now think about how many photos you will have in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? And what about video? Yikes!
Read MoreTwo of the most popular photo apps being used today are Google Photos and Apple Photos. I thought it would be helpful to look into and talk a bit about how they both work and what they actually do with your photos once they have them. You will find a number of other websites that show side by side comparisons of their editing features and the others bells and whistles they both offer, but as a professional photo organizer I am more concerned with how they handle your photo files, how accessible your photos are, and most importantly, if they keep them safe for years to come.
Read MoreI have been scanning thousands of my old family prints. It is not very realistic to retouch and restore every print that I scan, but the good ones, maybe images I will want to print in an album, I will take some time and fix them up. It is very cool to see an old yellowed, faded and damaged print look like new (almost).
Read MoreHere are some tips from the Save Your Photos Month website to help you get started.
I get notices about all sorts of products and photo organizing apps, in the last week alone I received articles about apps and products called Everalbum, 61N and Picjoy. They all pretty much work only on smartphones and/or utilize cloud storage, which is fine, but there are already so many of these, what makes one different form the next. Well Picjoy caught my eye because it mentioned story-telling, and that IS something I am interested in.
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Preserving Your Legacy -
De-duping with PhotoSweeper
PhotoSweeper is the most powerful and comprehensive duplicate remover for Mac systems.
De-duping with Cisdem
A step-by-step guide to successfully removing duplicates from your photo collection using Cisdem Duplicate Finder—for both Mac and Windows.
Building Blocks of Photo Organizing
A comprehensive course on digital imaging and organizing—everything from A to Z—to help anyone understand the basics of how it all works.
My upcoming classes at the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
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