I use the Standard Size option to reduce the pictures to 2048 pixels so I have unlimited free storage of these backed up pictures. I recently turned on the new Google+ Auto-Backup feature and set it to automatically copy every photo on my computer’s My Pictures folder.
It can include the folders on the external hard drive, as well as the folders on the computer in its library. Each year, I move that year’s folders off my computer and onto a USB External hard drive. Sometimes I find an event deserves it’s own folder. I normally put pictures into folders by the month they were taken. Once the pictures are safely on my computer, I erase them from the camera card or phone/tablet. For cameras from mobile devices, I install Dropbox on each device and set it to automatically synchronize to a ‘camera upload’ folder on my computer – then I move them from the camera upload folder to the My Pictures folder. For cameras with SD cards, I import directly from the SD card to the computer. We take pictures with multiple cameras, then collect them all on one computer. If not, perhaps reading thru my process will give you some ideas.ġ. Do you have access to all your pictures regardless of what camera took them? If your computer with pictures on it crashes, do you have those pictures somewhere else – backups? Can you find a picture from any given event in your life? If you’re visiting a friend and want to show them pictures of that event, can you? If you can answer yes to those questions, then you have a good system. My goal in detailing my process is to get you to think about it. I often revise it to take advantage of new tools that are available as well. I’ve developed my Photo Workflow over the years to match our photo-taking style. All I need is the Google+ App on my phone, and I can easily pull up any of my photo albums from Google+ Photos. All my best pictures from the last 10 years are there.
It used to be called Picasa Web Albums and I’ve been uploaded there for many years. After a little bit of editing in Picasa, they’re looking good and I upload them to Google+ Photos.
I also use my phone to snap pictures from old photo albums – like the ones from Alaska. I take a lot of regular pictures with my phone and I have a process where I import them to my computer and then erase them from my phone. How did I do that? I certainly didn’t take that picture using my phone! Well, actually I did! I found an old photo album on the shelf at my Mom’s – it had these Alaska pictures so I took out my phone and snapped pictures of the pictures. I love telling that story of my first RV trip, I like it even better to show pictures! I was able to grab the smartphone from my pocket and quickly find pictures of that 1962 trip. I told them how I lived in Alaska for many years when I was a kid, and my first RV trip was from Alaska to Guatemala. To share just those best photos, making sure they’re easily accessible to me at any time.Ī couple of weeks ago, we were in a campground with some friends who are planning an RV trip to Alaska this summer.To winnow them down to just the best, and make sure those best photos are great! I also want to have some labels, captions, keywords, or filenames on my best photos so I can easily find them.To make sure I collect all the pictures taken with various cameras.You can’t do that if you don’t know where they are! For me, there are 3 reasons to have a workflow We take all these great pictures for a reason: to preserve the memories and to share them. I hear ya! We want to erase the word ‘work’ from our vocabulary, but, if you don’t have some kind of process for managing your photos – they’ll just get lost. What’s that you say? You don’t work any more? You’re retired.
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