How do you organize your pictures??

[Somers Isles]

So I ran out of space on my phone and realized I had 14 GB of pictures of Robert since the day he was born.... 0_o

Currently my method is to just cut/paste them from my phone to my computer and then back them up on my dropbox as well.  But what do y'all do?  Do you organize them on a specific website (like shutterfly)?  Do you separate pictures into folders based on dates/events/something else?

And then what do you do?  Just keep them living in digital form?  Make shutterfly books?  Print them and stuff them into albums?   

[katka512]

I have all my pictures saved on my computer, organized by week. Once she's one, I'll change that, maybe to monthly or yearly. Not sure yet.
They are also backed up on an external hard drive and Google plus.
I've made 2 shutterfly books. I use Groove Book to print copies so every picture is in print too. If you haven't heard of it, it's an app. You can choose 100 pictures at a time and you get a bound book for $3. I love it.
I'm a little obsessive about my pictures but I'm so afraid to lose them!

[bsouls]

I just put them on my computer and they're organized in folders by the date the were uploaded. I'd like to separate them, but I might just put them all in one folder.

I use Shutterfly to print them and put them in photo albums. I used Groovebook and the pictures were horrible - it made all my bright nice pictures super dark and fuzzy. I also used Walgreens and it made them darker. I reprinted my Walgreens on Shutterfly and they came out brighter. So, after wasting money trying to get cheaper, I stuck with Shutterfly.

Her grandma makes books for her house every four months at Shutterfly.

[Deleted]

I put all pics from my phone and camera on my laptop. I really need to put them in the cloud or something. I'm afraid something will happen to my laptop and I'll lose them all.

[human1]

I don't. I also ran out of room on my phone. I finally backed it all up on my laptop and made prints of everything (for albums and baby books and the like) so it's all on shutterfly now too.

[Somers Isles]

I'm entertaining the idea of making a boatload of shutterfly books. It takes so long to make the scrapbook looking ones... I'm sure I could just pick a plain 4-6 pages per page and just fill it up so it's the same concept as an old fashion album. Of course this is coming from the girl who started a pregnancy book and it's still not finished... lol

[btbergstrom]

I have just been putting them onto my laptop and backing to an external hard drive immediately since I almost lost her first sixth months when my laptop went to shit. I want to make a shutterfly book but I am waiting till she is a year to finish it. I only want to make one a year. I do need to get some prints though for her baby book.

[RandomName]

I've been reading these posts thinking how lazy am I. When my phone gets full I tranfer them to my laptop and then clear my phone. I'm a incredibly paranoid I'll loose them all even though I back up to the cloud. I have no organization system. I really need to get on this before #2 arrives so it's not an even bigger clusterfuck of pics. If only I could hire someone to do this for me...

::runs off to selfish wish thread::

[babycaps]

DH takes care of all of that. He has everything backed up to a server and meticulously organized! Thank you hubby!!

[kaitkat]

I take monthly pictures with my nice camera so when I trasfer those I transfer the ones on my iPhone. Right now everything is organized by month seems to work ok for now! Every couple months I go and print photos to put in an album I have going I love pictures so like to be able to look through them:)

[nattybumppo]

On the computer they are organized either by event (Christmas 2014, Vacation, etc) or when it was just DD1, I did a lot by every three months (0-3 months, 3-6 months), but now that most photos have DD1 and DD2 in them, I've stuck to event or have folders for every three months (Jan-Mar, April-June, etc).

Love shutterfly for books. I've made about a dozen. It takes time, but I usually work on it a little at a time OR find a period of time where I just binge on it for a few days. I"m working on a "Fall 2014" book right now to cover general pics + Halloween + Thanksgiving.

I do want to be better about printing out random photos and having a place to put them. When I was at home over Christmas I really enjoyed flipping through old photos. I bet that's going to be a dying thing.

[bennieangel]

I organized on shutterfly by month...but I have yet to delete any off my phone (even though they are on the computer, shutterfly, google+ & amazon prime...hahahah)

[karebear]

I use my shutterfly account and download pics from my phone onto my shutterfly app. Super easy and I delete the pictures once uploaded there. I will begin to make books soon.

[bennieangel]

karebear - is there a way to pull the pictures back down from shutterfly? That's part of my concern with deleting...what if I want the digital version again?

[karebear]

bennieangel Yes you can pull them back on your phone if you need them. I do it all the time, but will delete again once used. You just save the shutterfly copy back to your phone.

[fish8412]

My husband backs up the pictures on his computer. I have pictures on Shutterfly, organized by month and holidays. I also have about 800 printed pictures scattered around the house. I really need LO to sleep so I can organize/make albums.