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Videos: What To Do With Them
Videos rarely come up without our prompting whenever we discuss photo organizing with a client. But videos play an integral role in a family’s visual...
Smartphone Photography: 3 Essential Tips
3 Essential Tips for Smartphone Photography: We all rely on smartphone photography to document much of our daily lives. It’s an incredible tool to have at...
What to do with Your Favorite Photos
Are you wondering what to do with your favorite photos? They don’t have to sit on your phone, viewable only on a small screen. I advise my clients to get...
Reasons Why You Haven’t Gotten Your Photos Organized
Reasons Why You Haven't Gotten Your Photos Organized: • You don’t know where all your photos are and thinking about it hurts your head • Or, their...
Digital Photos: 6 Organizing Tips
Have you assessed your digital photos lately? Does it need help? My guess is yes! Here are 6 steps you can take to get your digital photos in better...
Preserving Your Story in Video
Preserving your story in a video is growing in popularity and personal videos are a unique approach to saving and sharing your memories. The legacy video...
7 Tips for Making Photo Books
Making photo books is one of our favorite things to do - for ourselves and our clients. If you like to cook, you understand the value and importance of...
Print Photo Preservation
Print photo preservation is often overlooked. Today, we shoot digital photos, thanks to our sophisticated smart phones. But print photos are still a large...
September Is Save Your Photos Month, 2020 edition
September is Save Your Photos month! I often think of what author Gretchen Rubin says about this time of year: “September is the other January. Do you...
Saving Your Photos; Syncing vs Backups
Let's talk about saving your photos; syncing vs backups. When I ask my friends, family, and clients if they sync and/or back up their photos, the most...
How to Save Your Print Family Photos
Here's a quick look at how a print-to-digital family photos organizing job is handled. (our client, Marie, has permitted us to share her family photos and...
Adding Audio Files to Digitalized Home Movies
Recently a client (I'll call him Joe) asked us to sync an audio file to a recently digitized home movie. The film footage, now an MP4 file, is a...
Creating Your Legacy Photo Collection
A legacy photo collection is a little different from the photos you have of family vacations, weddings, birthdays, and everyday life. But before getting...
Three Ways to Enjoy Your Photos
Our smartphones have come a long way since 2010. The physical sizes have changed, as has the amount of memory. The variety and number of apps has grown...
Photo Books: Non-Traditional Options
Photo books are often created to celebrate milestones such as weddings, births, graduations and anniversaries. But they can also serve other purposes. For...
Keepsake and Legacy Videos: Filming Your Memories
Keepsake and Legacy videos are growing in popularity. And for good reason: they are a special way to record your memories. Today's modern Keepsake and...
A Professional Photo Organizer Holiday Gift Guide
As a professional photo organizer, I’ve noticed the opportunities for holiday photos have grown. As soon as Labor Day is over, it’s harvest time and...
How To Make a Vacation Video You’ll Actually Watch
A vacation video is a great way to memorialize a trip. While away, most of us take a ton of both videos and photos, often with the intention of creating a...