You’re a master of iPhone photography, but do you know where all those beautiful photos go after the click? No, we’re not talking about your Instagram feed. Where are your photos stored for years to come? Are they safe? Are you sure you’ll be able to retrieve them years from now when you and your family want to relive those memories?
Printing photos and creating scrapbooks are far less common these days and most people rely on their phones to safely store their precious memories. But that may not be the best way to handle your photos. If you’ve been meaning to get around to organizing your digital photos, now is the perfect time.
In this article, we’ll walk you through some light edits so your photos are perfect, then organizing and saving your digital memories so they’re readily available anytime you need a flashback. Ready to start editing, organizing, and using your digital memories? Let’s get started!
Editing Your Photos
First, you want to make sure your photos are perfect. Since we take most of our photos with our phones, you probably have a bunch of pictures on there you don’t necessarily intend to keep. Go through your phone, digital camera, and other files to delete blurry photos, screenshots, and anything you wouldn’t print and hang up or that doesn’t carry some personal significance.
Once you’ve pared down to only the photos you really love or need, it’s time to put your photoshop skills to work. Not familiar with photoshop? Don’t worry. Editing photos doesn’t have to be complicated. Just a few tweaks can help your photos better represent the real moment by touching up mistakes and adding clarity or just highlighting certain colors and subjects. Consider using Adobe Express image resizer free for quick and easy adjustments to fit your needs.
Free photoshop training classes are available if you want to learn to edit your photos like a professional, or you can just use the simple editing tools found on your phone. Play around and have some fun with your photos; adding text or graphics can add personality and context to the memory. But don’t go overboard or you’ll end up with an unrecognizable snapshot.
Organizing Your Photos
Are you one of those people who takes pictures with your phone and then forgets about them? Do you get hit with anxiety when you wonder where your digital photos over the years have gone? We’ve all been there. The truth is, most of us aren’t doing a great job of organizing and saving our photos.
But now is the time to take your beautiful photos and make sure you have them organized and safe for years to come. Summer is wrapping up and fall is around the corner, meaning holiday festivities are about to start filling up your time and new photos of family, food, and fun are going to take up the space in your phone. Let’s get organized before that happens.
Organizing your digital photos will take time, but here are some simple steps you can take to ensure your memories are safe:
- Delete any unwanted photos.
- Use face recognition (on your phone) to create albums based on the people closest to you.
- Or create albums with titles that are easy to identify such as the month and year the photo was taken or by events, for example, “Mom’s birthday 2018” or “Travel.”
- Upload your photos from your phone to your computer and add them to folders.
- Backup your photos online with a service such as iCloud or Google Drive.
Now your photos are all organized and backed up for safe keeping!
Displaying Your Photos
It’s time for the fun part — displaying your photos and memories. Printing, framing, and scrapbooking has become rare activities since the popularity of social media and online photo-sharing services blew up. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t indulge. A beautiful photo album or coffee table book is a great way to relive your happiest days and share those memories with your friends and family. Printed photos and books also make heartfelt, personalized gifts.
Creating photo albums is easier than ever. Even if you’re not a scrapbooker, you can simply upload the photos you want to use to use to a photo album service, then drag and drop each photo into a virtual book that’s then printed, shipped, and delivered to your door.
In our modern digital age, taking photos and forgetting about them is easier than ever. But those memories are made to cherish and a great way to honor them is to care for them and use them again and again. Don’t let your photos sit on your phone to be forgotten. Edit them to perfection, keep them organized and safe, and then get them offline and into your real life.
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