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This is a thread about organising photos into, say, a photo album.

So after 4+ years of digital photos and never actually printing them i said to myself "hey, fuck all these ones and zeros, i want some glossy 6 by 4s to show off and stick in a photo album"

Choosing 500 (Jessops' order limit) from the 7000 on my laptop was tough, but i managed it. I even found a couple of nice brown paper scrapbook style photo albums to display them in, and so i'm making a big deal about how i do it. But where do i start! I've dealed the 500 (alongside the couple hundred real pre-digital shots i had knoccking about) into the loose categories of
family
childhood
lovers
friends
vanity shots
and then location by city

But there are a LOT in each section and i've never done this before.

Do you make a big deal about photo albums or just shove them in any which way they'll fit? I just feel like, coz it's such a big task, if i do it wrong now i'll never correct it (so i want to get it right)

Have i split them up correctly to begin with? should i do it chronologically? How do you organise your real life actual photographs?

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

If someone had said to me 5 years ago "tag your digital photos, for the love of god Tag Them" this whole escapade would have been much easier.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

The other month I printed out pics. I have now pics that were taken four years ago. Have I put them in an album? Have I fuck. It's too daunting. So they just sit there weeping. :-( My iPHOTO contains 2000 pics. Have I tagged'em? Have I fuck. :-( It's a bit overwhelming really. That's one of the drawbacks of digital pictures: you take a gazillion pics and just upload'em.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 28 October 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Outweighed by the advantages though. Thanks to camera-phobic parents, I have a total of 3 childhood photos, and 2 school photos (at age 10 and 15).

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 28 October 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I was finally sticking photos in an album last night! I decided to go for chronological rather than themed, if I ever have time I'll probably do some scrapbook pages themed, with fewer photos.

We always take TONS of pics, but then print out the best and then weed them again when it comes to sticking them in the album. I got an album that you need to stick the photos onto - better for long term care of the photos (sticky albums are a no-no and lots of plastic sleeve albums aren't the best for them in the long term) and also good for messing around with layout and lets you write captions and comments for the photos.

I guess to decide how best to do it you need to know why you're doing it. Are you doing it so in the future you and your significant other can sit down and flick through holiday snaps and reminisce? Or are you doing it because you want to be able to show friends who come round what a fab photographer you are?

Chris laughs at me, because whenever I download photos I arrange them in chronological folders, but it does make it really easy when it comes to finding photos of specific events. Photos aren't tagged on the home pc, but the ones that make it onto flickr are.

― Vicky (Vicky), Saturday, 28 October 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: but do they more pix with a digital camera? i don't think that matters.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

long term care of the photos

Oh i meant to ask: it's ok to use a pritt stick on the back of these, right? They don't stick very well, but i don't know if i want to use sellotape...

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 28 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Slumpman - you do realise that you've completely freaked out my archivist wife don't you? Her answer is somewhere along the lines of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

of course you may be winding her up ;)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 28 October 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Chris laughs at me, because whenever I download photos I arrange them in chronological folders

Yet another example of how me & Pam :: you & Chris! I have chronological directories on the PC (with a separate chronological section for pix of Ava) and a few general categories (for when the subject or method of photography is more significant than when it was taken). (Pam, to be fair, is quite sympathetic to my methods as she incorporates a yymmdd date prefix on her resized/emailed pix.)

The photos I upload to Photobox for printing mostly mirror those I upload to Flickr (as far as pix of the kid go, anyway). But they mostly sit in piles, un-albumed.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 28 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha - all mine just get stuck in folders titled by month/year/location

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 28 October 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Month/year/location? You decide.....

http://static.flickr.com/119/281700662_b6a22bdbc2_o.jpg

― Vicky (Vicky), Saturday, 28 October 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/Pixdirectories.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 28 October 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

(Some colourful pixellation to hide a few folks' names!)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 28 October 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Slumpman - you do realise that you've completely freaked out my archivist wife don't you? Her answer is somewhere along the lines of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" because of the pritt stick or the sellotape??

I've decided on a loose chronological/autobiographical sequence by person and event. So i'll have a page of photos of Person X in roughly the right point in time of meeting them, but i'll put recent photos of that person alongside them, and then move on to the next person/or event. So far i'm upto "people in met in uni halls of residence".

This pleases me!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" because of the pritt stick or the sellotape??

Both.

The best way to stick photos to anything is photo corners. Unless you're printing the photos onto non-photographic paper then pritt stick just isn't going to hold them for very long. cellotape and loads of other tapes and glues will eventually bleed into the photo and/or come unstuck

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have never heard of photo corners, but i googled and they seem neat! i'll buy some before continuing. Cheers!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

if i've got a ton of digital photos and i want to make them into an album w/out a lot of fuss (no special design, maybe something like 2-3 photos per page side) - what's the best service for that? shutterfly?

― Mordy , Sunday, 22 September 2013 18:57 (twelve years ago)

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