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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I was at a fellowship of my favorite people Monday night. The ladies from my church. I am one of the older women in the church (not the oldest). lol but the oldest at the party!
Anyways, one of the women brought this adorable polaroid instamatic camera! It is like the old time ones, spits out an image and you have to wait for the image to appear. There is a cute fame around it and it is small. Just precious!
Anyway, I was on baby holding patrol, and had a 6 month old chubby sweetie in my arms, she went to snap a pic, and I kissed the baby. The photo was great. I showed the mom. (a young girl I have known since she was 7 years old).
She burst into tears...oh no? Dear girl, what did I do?
It is the first photo of her son she can hold. She had phone full of photos, but has not printed ONE! I was flabbergasted!

Our hobby can not die with phones.

She is coming over next week, and I am going to get her addicted to digiscrap. But first, I am gonna give her a frame with openings, so she will print some photos.! lol

Please tell me you print our your pages.

Do you know people that never print their photos? I am just sad, thinking that the joy of a photo book or album is not being passed down.
 
I admit there are not many photos I print, but I do have favorites that are framed and hanging on my walls or sitting on shelves. The pictures of our vacation to France a couple of years ago and our Alaska vacation this Summer I created books for. I love going through them and remembering the great time we had. In fact hubby wants me to go back and make a book of our other trips threw the last 18 years.

I agree with you, pictures should be printed in some form so they can be enjoyed by your family and friends.
 
I print my weekly P52 pages which end up being like a diary so lots of photos from my year each year. Also getting other albums professionally printed as I put them together.

Also at times I will print out photos I have taken of my grandchildren to display on a 12 x12 frame with strings and pegs that my husband made and I change the photos at times to watch the grandchildren as they grow up.
 
I will be honest- I have not yet printed my digiscrap pages. BUT, that is because when I started last year, I scrapped with no rhyme or reason. Now, I am trying to mostly scrap my daughter's first year and our first trip to Disney (separately) with the goal of printing books sometime before the year ends.

That being said, I have printed photos all around my house. We gift photos to grandparents pretty frequently. I also have a friend who mails me a printed photo or two after every visit we have (she lives out of state). There is something about having a tangible photo in hand that is so much different than looking at it digitally.
 
frani_54 said:
I do have favorites that are framed and hanging on my walls
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yes!! yes!! yes!!
frani_54 said:
I love going through them and remembering the great time we had.
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there is something so fun about an album on your lap, and the memories...yes!
A-M said:
I print my weekly P52 pages which end up being like a diary
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you have inspired me to try P52, as a diary of my life...I love this idea!! an 8x8 chunky book would be so fun! I love it!
 
Oh gosh! These kinds of stories make me twitchy! That and people who never download their phone photos. Two of my bestest friends never download and I finally MADE them add the Google Photos app on their phones so they'd at least have a backup out there in the cloud. One of them said they lost all of their pictures from several years when they got a new phone because they didn't know how to back them up. Yikes!

Have your friend also look into the Shutterfly app... I'm pretty sure they let you print as many photos as you want for "free" (I'm assuming they get their money out of shipping fees) but maybe they'll help get those pictures printed.

I don't print individual photos very often, but I definitely prints my scrapbook pages as soon as I get about 100 finished and ready to be put into a Shutterfly book.
 
I occasionally print pictures... mostly ones that I specifically take and good ones of the boys. I staged back to school pics, and will usually get some of those printed. Most are in my computer though.
 
Not a single printed photo? Oh my goodness! At the same time: Anne, bless you for giving her that first print! Bless the camera owner for bringing the camera!

Just recently DH actually got me a Canon Selphy printer for our anniversary. (He earned mega points with that gift.) While I do print via Persnickety or, in a pinch, a one-hour photo place nearby, it's nice to be able to print something right here at home.

But I've been bad about putting my photos into albums. That's been a "when the kids are in school" project of mine for about 3 years. :cornfused Maybe I'll actually accomplish it this year! The pics are all arranged by year>month, so it shouldn't be hard. Oh, and I do print DS albums, though not as often as I should. Part of me thinks I should buy 12x12 credits the next time PP has a sale. Then I can at least print individual pages whenever I want.
 
Oh I forgot to add that every year I do a calendar that have pictures/layouts of the grand kids (I have 9), I keep telling the kids I need 3 more grand kids to complete the calendar each year, so far they all tell me that isn't going to happen....LOL

I gift each of our kids with the completed calendar for Christmas, the cousins love seeing the pages and of course they love seeing themselves as well.
 
I don't print the quantity of photos that I used to when I was scrapbooking traditionally but I do print some. I have some on the refrigerator and others elsewhere throughout the house. Some photos I have had enlarged and framed. Those were on display in a photo gallery at my church years ago when the Camera Club was active but are now proudly displayed in my house. I have other older photos that Mom had framed years ago still displayed in various areas of the house.

I also have a lot of old photos that are organized in envelopes. I have digitized many of them and have begun scrapping them but I haven't gotten to the point that I want to get rid of the original photos.

As for my digi-scrapping pages, I do print them out. I do individual prints and put them in CM albums. I usually have print credits with Persnickety and when I get at least 100 pages done, I'll order a bunch.
 
I have 3 albums so far and 6 Chatbook albums (photos only) so far. I have made it a point in the last couple of years to get my photos and pages OUT OF THE DIGI world and INTO REALITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnneofAlamo said:
Please tell me you print our your pages.
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YES!! I have piles of digiscrapped photo books sitting on my coffee table. But... I forget to print regular prints except around the holidays.

AnneofAlamo said:
Do you know people that never print their photos? I am just sad, thinking that the joy of a photo book or album is not being passed down.
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Sigh... I don't think that this younger generation gets it. My daughter was cleaning out her room (she recently switched rooms with her brother) and made a pile of photos that she had found. She asked if she could just throw them away... at which time I gasped in horror!! She said "what's the big deal, we'll just print more if I need them". Where have I gone wrong?? :duh She did ask to have a bunch of photos printed for a photo wall in her room, but I doubt she'll have any long term attachment to those actual physical photos.... sniff.
 
I print some.. some of the old photos I scrap with are already printed and I have grabbed them from my photo albums.. what a sweet story and so glad you are going to show her scrap booking and the art of printing too :) You go Anne!! @AnneofAlamo XO
 
I have 1000s of digital layouts to print so that is slow going but yes, I do print. I have several years' worth of Christmas albums that make me happy to flip through.

I also print photos.

My sister is one of those people who never prints photos. She keeps years' (YEARS!) worth of photos on her phone because she takes them all at the lowest resolution possible. That is her scrapbook -- swiping through them on her phone. She doesn't really 'get' everyday photos so her photos are mostly a handful of photos at a big event & lots and lots of selfies.

Our mom scraps, too, and has several albums for my nephew so I think my sister figures there's no point in her doing it, too.
 
What is the point of photos, if not to print them?

(I guess I'm an older generation too.)

I don't honestly know if the people I know print their photos; I'll have to go around and ask. I guess I just assumed everyone printed them sometime, even if I never see them!

Personally, I've started sending for photos from Snapfish -- I just ordered my first batch and need to check the quality but I've ordered from them in the past with good results -- and I've started looking for photo albums. (They are not as easy to find as they used to be! I had no idea.) It takes me a long time to create and print scrapbook pages, and I want to have books around the house for the kids to look at in the meantime. Snapfish offers up to 100 free 4x6 photos per month in the app, for the cost of shipping, which was less than $10.

When I first started scrapbooking, I had a photo album just for printed photos. It was a three ring binder style (2 up), so I would put all my prints in it, take them out as I scrapped, and move the empty pages to the back of the album for the next batch of prints. I haven't done that in a very long time -- after I had too many prints for the album to hold -- but it might not be a bad thing to revisit for sharing.
 
I have many 8x8 albums full of my printed layouts and now I'm starting to get 30 page photo books whenever they're on sale. I also get pictures printed a lot. I get so many pictures printed at Walgreens, that they give me free stuff quite often. I just got a free 8x10 print last week. I also get a lot of Instagram 4x4 pictures printed at Walgreens, too. They even make Instagram albums and I have 3 of them full, plus I use the 4x4 prints on different projects.
 
Before I started digital scrapbooking, I made a gift photo book (at mypublisher, now closed). It took me almost a month to get a 20 page album set up the way I wanted, and I didn't even add any text/journaling! (It was an additional charge back then.) That's when I decided that making my own pages, all year long, would be a better way to make photo books, rather than spending a entire month arranging and rearranging my photos with online photobook software.

(This is the same reason that I rarely use templates; it takes me at least four times longer to put a page together with a pre-made template than when I'm cropping and arranging the photos on my own.)

My current plan has been to update a snapshot display every month; I just haven't settled on the display. I bought a cable and some clips so that I could hang them on the wall, but I really don't have a good space to do that. Then I bought a floating 16x20 frame, but it turns out that doesn't hold as many photos as I thought and the photos have to be adhered somehow or they slide right out, which is kind of a pain for updating every few weeks. Now I'm thinking of a display with 4x6 page protectors. (I have the stand that will hold a 12" page protector and I now need the appropriate pocket pages. I bought it for displaying pages, but I haven't created nor printed any since purchasing it and this thread is reminding me that I have been ordering prints for displaying.)
 
I'm teaching a photography class in my homeschool co-op. I may make that one day's lesson -- the importance of printing photos and the various ways we can do it.

I'm 46 so of course I started out printing pictures, because that was the only way, and when digital photography was invented that didn't change my desire to have albums I can hold in my hand. I don't print all of the thousands of digital photos I make (of course!!! yikes! :lol ) but I print more photos in digiscrap albums than my mom made of my entire childhood. I've also begun printing my Day One journal, which includes lots of photos. And a few times over the last decade I've made simple prints, usually taking advantage of Shutterfly's freebie offers. Bunches of 4x6's and a few 8x10 and 16x12 wall prints. I like albums more than portraits on the wall.

I don't know my friends' phone photo habits, but I know I'm the only one in my family who transfers my photos from my phone to my computer/EHD. I've tried to encourage my girls to do so, but they aren't concerned. Nor as sentimental as I am. I'll just continue to suggest it occasionally. :) My husband doesn't even take more than a dozen or two photos a year. If my family members take pictures I want, I ask them to send them to me. I also take screenshots of some of my daughter's Instagram posts. :D
 
I make a book for every year -- although I'm usually 2 or 3 years behind. Right now I'm working on a simple book for my daughter's wedding (over a year ago). It will be between 75 and 85 pages! I think I've printed through 2015 and I'm working on 2016, 2017, and 2018 pages. I also print a calendar each year with a big scrapbook page for each month. I think it's great to print photos!
 
I will admit that I don't print nearly the pages that I should. I do print my PL every year and my DYD, but I only have a few books of of the rest of my pages. I have a lot of them on memory cards that I display on digital frames or on the tv all the time, but it's not the same. My goal for sometime soon is to work on putting them in some kind of chronological order by the date of the photo in them, and work on getting them printed. I would also like to go back and work on specific books for my older kids since I didn't start scrapping until they were 15 and 11. I print photos periodically and stick them in my planner but I really need to be better about it. I do have tons of printed photos of the older ones because that's what we had then, but not so many of the youngest and the grands.
 
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