Association for Personal Photo Organizers Tag

02 Feb

Posted at 15:51h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Heirloom Pictures, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Photo Storage, Restoring photos, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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Almost everyone has pictures, but not everyone has heirloom pictures.  Heirloom material includes the pictures and albums which came down the generations from grandparents or aunts and uncles. Heirloom material could be more than just pictures.  It could include books, toys, baby clothes, shoes, or letters. If...

02 Jan

Posted at 16:32h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Remote Sessions, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides by
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As we leave the year 2020 behind, we remember those we have lost, as well as trips not taken, friends not seen, and events not attended. But, has anything good happened in 2020?  Is there anything at all to be grateful for in 2020?  Are there...

04 Dec

Posted at 16:36h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Sharing Ideas, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides, Slides to USB by
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No one can argue that 2020 has been a bummer of a year.  Between COVID and the politicizing of the virus and its mitigation, it’s a year well-worth forgetting. But things still happened, the kids continued to grow, celebrations were done in novel ways, and, unfortunately,...

03 Nov

Posted at 16:22h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gathering Photos, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Calendars, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides, Sorting Pictures by
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Are you getting tired of looking at the same walls, wondering what to do?  With the holidays coming up, how about starting a short-term project? I create a family calendar each year.  I make around ten copies and distribute to various family members.  They all love...

01 Sep

Posted at 10:35h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitizing Pictures, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Remote Sessions, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides, Slides to USB by
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Setting goals is the first thing to do to ensure a successful Photo Organizing project You have tons of pictures!  Pictures you took; pictures from your grandmother; digital pictures on your phone.  How do you get your arms and head wrapped around organizing this mess to...

01 Jul

Posted at 17:31h in Certified Photo Organizer, Coud Storage, DIY Photo Organizing, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Backup, Photo Storage by
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This blog is a follow-on to last month’s blog:  https://preciousmemsphoto.com/2020/06/diy-amazon-prime-photos-backup-system-part-1-setting-up-devices/ Last month, I discussed how to set up the basic Amazon Photos/Amazon Drive system to backup the photos from your phones and other devices.  This is depicted in the top part of the drawing, below. In this...

01 Jun

Posted at 21:10h in Certified Photo Organizer, Coud Storage, DIY Photo Organizing, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Photo Backup, Photo Storage by
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Do you wonder how to back up all of your photos?  Both the digital and the digitized?  Are you confused about the difference between backing up and syncing? To answer the last question first, understanding the difference between backing up and syncing is very helpful in...

02 Mar

Posted at 12:54h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Scanning Memorabilia, Scanning Negatives, Scanning photo albums, Scanning Prints, Scanning scrapbooks, Scanning Slides, Slides to USB by
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Spring is a great time to clean out your closets. Who knows what forgotten treasures you will find? I’ve seen closets filled to the ceiling with boxes of slide carousels. Other closets have had boxes of loose photos, or wall-to-wall photo albums. It’s true that a dark,...

02 Feb

Posted at 21:17h in Certified Photo Organizer, Digitize Slides, Digitizing Pictures, DIY Photo Organizing, Family Memories, Gulf Freeway Corridor, Houston TX Area, Organizing Pictures, Scanning Slides, Slides to USB, Sorting Pictures by
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Slides were the photo medium of choice for years and years.  My dad had thousands of slides!  Many of our family memories from the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s had been captured in slides. But now, there are few functioning slide projectors.  So how can you retain...