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Discover practical advice on decluttering, organizing, and enjoying your digital and printed memories.
I share thoughts, stories, and insight on a variety of topics:
Top 10 Photo Holiday Gift Ideas!
Top 10 (and more!!!) photo holiday gifts.
Photo Organizing Software Spotlight: FOREVER®
This month we take a closer look at the photo organizing software FOREVER, a purchase storage up front home for your photos and videos.
How To Keep Your Photos Organized While Traveling Part II
Learn the best tips and tricks for organizing your travel photos while you are still traveling so that by the time you get home they have already been culled and organized and are ready to share.
The Power of Location Data
Use your phone’s gps location data to see where you’ve been on a map and for more powerful searching!
Photo Organizing Powerhouse on Any Platform: The Album
Whether you use Apple Photos, Mylio Photos, FOREVER, Amazon Photos, SmugMug or Google Photos, you can create digital albums (sometimes called collections) to help organize and share subsets of your photos. Albums are one of the best organizing tools for photo storage software.
Rescuing photos from sticky magnetic albums.
Old magnetic sticky photo albums are ruining your photos. Learn how to safely remove them from your albums so that the can be digitized and preserved.
Top 5 Tips for a Celebratory Graduation Slideshow
Top 5 tips for creating a graduation slideshow, a slideshow you can actually finish.
Silvered Photos: Can They Be Saved?
Silvered prints can be digitally restored with a high quality camera scanned image.
How I keep my photos organized while traveling Part I
How I keep my photos organized while traveling. Learn how to backup, review, organize and edit photos from a camera, multiple phones, and a GoPro while traveling with no internet with Mylio Photos.
Our Epic Trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos!
An epic trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos, where I took 6000 photos with 6 different cameras! A day in Quito, birding in Mindo, a week on the Samba through the Galapagos, Isabela island and Santa Cruz island.
Photo Organizing Software Spotlight: Mylio Photos+
Learn why a Certified Professional Photo Organizer uses Mylio Photos to organize her photos having tried so many different softwares, and the pros and cons of Mylio Photos.
How long do old video formats last? Not long enough!
VHS, Beta, DVD, camcorder tapes and reel film don’t last forever, even if kept in pristine conditions, so now is the time to convert and enjoy. In this blog we look at how long each of these formats is likely to last.
What’s new in iOS 17 for camera and photos?
iOS 17 is here with some new camera and photo features like pet facial recognition, faster cropping, and better visual lookup. Read on for more new photo and camera features.
Photo Privacy: What is it and why should you care?
Your photos contain an enormous amount of private information. Here are some things to think about before you share your next picture.
Introducing the Inside Photo Organizing Podcast!
Introducing the Inside Photo Organizing podcast where we bring you photo organizing tips and tricks for everyone from the person who wants to DIY to other pros in our industry.
Three Ways to Share and Collect Photos with Family or Friends on Vacation
Three easy ways to collect and share photos with family and friends while on vacation.
Stepping into the frame: put yourself in the picture
Are you the picture taker in your family? It’s time to step into the frame and put yourself in the picture. Your family and friends will thank you.
Where to Start?
You have decided to make your photos a priority, and would love to have them all in one place, securely backed up and accessible from everywhere. But where do you start?
Organizing Printed Photos
How do you sort through all of your printed photos to decide what to keep and what to toss? Follow the ABC method, then scan the keepers.
Where Should You Keep Your Photos?
How do you choose a photo storage solution when there are so many options? Read on for what to look for and some pros and cons of popular photo storage sites.