I have a love/hate relationship with digital cameras. I love ours, I love the quality of photos it takes. I love the storage capacity. I love the simple deleting process for bad shots.
But all of our photos are trapped on our computer. I rarely get prints.
Then, when I see a free prints deal like the one I posted last week, I freeze up. I’m so overwhelmed by the amount of pictures on our computer, that it’s hard to just pick 25 or 50 to get printed. Same with the photobook deals I always see. I want to do it, but sitting down and putting a few dozen pictures on a flash drive, I just never get to it.
How do you organize yours?
I organize mine by year and month. I have a folder on my external HD. Example: 2009 folder. In that folder are 12 sub-folders, jan, feb, march, etc.
It makes it easy to select photos for printing. If I want to print pictures of vacation, I know to go to the June folder. Christmas? December.
Building a photobook is simple, by pulling my favorite pictures from each month-folder into a new folder called "2009 photobook" or something like that.
That's how I do it, anyway!
I do the photobooks when I see a deal. I keep everything on cf cards and they are pretty much in chronological order there.
I also have a myphotoalbum site where I keep groups of photos.
Are you still scrapping? I am doing D's preschool scrapbook now so the last time I ordered I got the photos from his graduation.