30 Blogs With Tips for Organizing Family Photos

Whether you’re a traditionalist with piles of photographs or a tech-savvy fiend with a penchant for capturing special moments digitally, it’s easy to amass a collection of images that’s downright overwhelming in size. Culling your collection isn’t always easy, nor is finding the right method for storage and organization that allows you to find the pictures you’re looking for when you need them. These 30 blog entries are all dedicated to the fine art of organization, with a focus on your family photos.

Photo Album Ideas

When you have containers that are full of printed or developed photographs that you’ve haphazardly stuffed inside, getting them into nicely organized albums can make it easier to discard photos until you’re left with only those that you truly want. Once you’ve cleaned out your photos you’ll be able to store them in a more suitable manner. These five blogs discuss various photo album organization techniques, and can help you get started on your project with confidence.

• Organization Week: Tips to Organize Your Photos
• Preserve Life’s Treasures with a Photo Memory Book
• Organizing Your Photos for Your Wedding Album Design
• Organizing Your Photos: Step 3 Creative Ways to Share
• How To Organize A Portfolio Into A Hardcover Photobook

Scrapbooking Ideas

Few methods of showcasing your photographs are as satisfying in terms of fulfilling a creative outlet and garnering a sense of accomplishment as putting together a scrapbook. Whether you’re an accomplished pro or a scrapbooking beginner, these five blogs are stuffed with great photo organization ideas.

• Week #6 Challenge – Organizing Photos
• Sorting Saturday – Organizing Photos
• UHeart Organizing: A Scraptastic Planning Process!
• Digital Scrapbook Organization – 3 ways
• Tip Tuesday – Organizing Your Photos

Digital Photo Organization Ideas

Snapping photographs with a digital camera is so easy and satisfying that you can collect an incredible number of them in a very short time, a situation that’s only exacerbated by the fact that they don’t require a trip to the store to get them developed. These five blog entries can help you organize all of those digital snapshots on your hard drive, getting them in order and making them easier to manage.

• How to Organize Your Digital Photos
• How to Organize Pictures in 5 Easy Steps
• Guest Blog by Cindy Clawson: Tips for Organizing Your Digital Photos
• A Non-Photographer’s Guide to Organizing Digital Photos
• Organizing Your Digital Photos

Photo Boxes

Hastily stuffing printed or developed photos into a shoe box isn’t an entirely effective organizational method. There are, however, dedicated boxes designed specifically for photograph storage. Utilizing these can make it easier for you to manage prints when you’ve thrown out the ones you don’t actually want, but still have far too many on your hands. These five blogs help you to sort, organize and manage your photos by using photo boxes to get the job done.

• Organizing 101: Family Photos
• Learn To Organize Photos Like a Professional
• How to Organize Your Stack of Photos
• How to Organize Photos
• 8 Simple Tips For Stress-Free Photo Organization

Scanning Photographs

If you’re making the transition to digital storage over printed photographs and aren’t quite sure where you should start or how to go about the process, these five blogs are invaluable resources for information and assistance. Learning how to scan your photos and discovering the best methods for organizing them once they’re in digital form is easier than you may realize, especially when you have the assistance of these bloggers.

• Letter from a Reader: Help Me Organize My Photos!
• How to Scan and Archive Your Old Printed Photos
• Finally Organize Your Pictures
• Two Ways to Digitize Your Old Photos
• Scanning and Organizing Old Photos

Preserving and Storing Old Photographs

If you’ve inherited a collection of vintage family photographs or are simply holding on to snapshots that are decades old, you may have noticed that they tend to deteriorate with time. These five blog entries offer advice for halting the degradation of your cherished memories and pointers on how to properly store them in order to prevent future damage.

• Best Way to Preserve Old Photos
• Preserving Photographs – Store Old Photos Safely
• How to Preserve Photographs Worth Keeping in Three Simple Steps
• How to Preserve Old Photographs
• Preserving Memories with Photograph Storage

Originally posted on Find A Nanny.