Big Picture Scrapbooking Tip - Digital
Triage
By Stacy Julian
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Organize
your digital pictures
I’m going to be brutally honest with you. You have taken more
pictures than you can scrapbook in your lifetime. Seriously, put
down your camera right now and you would still be scrapbooking in
20 years! So, you have got to adapt a plan or system that will help
you upload and track and print the pictures that you most want to
scrapbook. Your computer probably already organizes your images
in date order (or chronologically.) If you add to this system categories
that can collect and “age” photos together, you will
be able to retrieve photos that belong together, not because they
were taken on the same day, but because they help you tell an important
story. Start by setting up four main folders in your photo software
program:
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1. All About
Us Personality pictures of you and your immediate family |
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2. People We Love
Pictures of extended family and friends |
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3. Places We Go Pictures
of vacation destinations and even images of places you love and
frequent around home. |
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4. Things We Do If
you love to fish, and you often spend your weekends at soccer tournaments,
then one of two of the best pictures you have taken during fishing
trips and soccer games can be put into this folder, along with any
other pictures that typify your life and the things you love to
do. |
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| As you move pictures into
these category folders, only move a select few. One of the main
goals of digital triage is the prioritization that comes from choosing
to move just the best of the best – you’ll love this
new view of your pictures and your life. You be able to make important
connections that chronology doesn’t show you and you’ll
be dealing with a much more manageable number of pictures when it
comes time to print! |
Stacy Julian
Sponsor: Big Picture Scrapbooking
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