I have a special treat for you all today!! The totally cool team from Totally Rad is here to do a guest post! If you remember, I posted last year about how much I love to edit my photos with Rad Lab from Totally Rad. I use it on nearly every picture on my blog, so I was thrilled when they asked if they could share a few tips on organizing and printing your photos! Pass Down Your Photos, Not Your Hard Drives.
Take it away Jeremiah…….
I have a reoccurring nightmare. My son is getting married, and he wants photos for the wedding slideshow. With a look of shame I hand over my box of outdated hard drives with useless titles like, Edmund, Rory the Roman, and T-Rex. Decades of photos so poorly organized trying to find a good one plays out like the plot to Treasure Island. I always wake in a cold sweat swearing that I'll start printing my photos.
I know I can't be the only one tormented by the intangibility of digital files, and I've put together a simple plan for getting my photos off my hard drives and into the real world.
Step 1: Get Organized
I literally wore out the shutter on my first dSLR. After nearly a decade of digital photography I have to dig through terabyte after terabyte if I want photos from the early years.
Step one is to develop a system for organizing your files. Chenin, one of our fearless leaders here at Totally Rad!, did an amazing post going over this in detail. Each time she downloads a card of personal images, she downloads them on to a separate "Family Photo Drive" and immediately organizes them in to folders. Each folder is titled by the year and contains subfolders, which are titled MO-DAY – DESCRIPTION OF PHOTOS. For example, "12-25 – Christmas Morning" is how she would name a folder containing images of her family opening their Christmas gifts:
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