NHG: organizing photos

[Deleted]

I would post this on the Organizing sub-board but it moves pretty slow and this is a project I'd like to tackle while I'm off work the next 2 weeks. How do you organize your photos? Photo albums? Photo boxes? Online or on your PC? I have been storing more recent photos on my computer (could do a better job though) but I have about a dozen old photo albums, some of which are ugly and falling apart. I really don't want to spend more money on bulky photo albums. I kind of want to pare down to just the photos that I really want, organize them in a couple photo boxes, toss the rest and be done with it. The exception to this is our wedding album and a decorative photo box where extra wedding photos are stored. Keeping all of those. WWYD?

Also, if you store all your photos digitally do you use iTunes or a cloud based service (which one?), or do you just keep them on your home computer?

[TBM]

We scanned family photos for Christmas gifts last year, so we have everything on our pc and backed up on an external drive.

We kept the photos though, and they are in photo boxes. They don't take up that much space and it is nice to have the actual photos sometimes.

[thewop]

I have very few actual prints. Everything else is on our laptop, and on the external hard drive. Even our wedding photos are on CD's. The only prints I own are all framed and displayed (and I have like...10 total).

[bunnymendelbaum]

I have mine by year & month on my PC and have carbonate online backup service.
(I also use dropbox and iCloud.)

[Deleted]

I also save mine by year and month in a folder on my computer.
H however insists we have printed pictures as backup. So I delete the crap ones and print the good ones. I just have albums divided into farm/family/friends/travel/other. Every few years they get full and I start over. I don't have that many really.
The stuff from HS and college I pitched a good share of and it's just in a small tote waiting for someday organizing, but it actually takes up less space that way so I may just leave them. H has a box from growin up too.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ours are saved by year and date I uploaded the album (LOL) on the computer. I probably should reorganize by month, but ehhhh.

I use carbonite for backup as well.

Older pre-digital photos are currently in albums, but I'm thinking I'm going to mail them all off to a digitizing service at some point.

[roselis]

I have my photos saved on my computer. I have 2 photo albums I keep: one for A and one for my renfaire photos