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What do you do with your photos you don't scrap?

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tjscraps

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What do you do with your photos that don't end up in your scrapbook?

It's impossible for me to scrap every event or fun photo - I also don't scrap chronologically, so a lot gets lost in translation :)

A few years ago I started creating a family 'yearbook' of photos - just a bound photobook with pictures from the year. No words or explanations, just a way to get the photos off the computer and into a tangible format. I wait until Shutterfly has an 'unlimited pages' sale and buy them once the sale comes on.

I'm a little behind though - I just got 2020 in the mail today lol
 
I love your name for your yearbooks!

I just let all my photos stay where they are, on my phone and backed up in various places. I’m sure I’ve scrapped some multiple times and others not at all and that’s ok with me.
 
They're on my computer. I have albums and am making more photobooks and that's also ok.
My kids have their own birthday albums, school albums and I have been doing yearly ones since 2006.
 
I have mine in Dropbox sorted by year/month and also on am EHD. And we have a bunch in Amazon Photos that flip through the Alexa all day which is fun.

I love your idea of just a look book style photo book
 
we have an EHD loaded up with photos, and my scrapbook pages in two different main folders. People can either choose to browse the photos (organised by year, month and activity) or my scrapbook pages (organised by year)
 
I used to print them, but then they would just sit in boxes so they are all stored on computer now and backed up on a cloud storage system. I keep meaning to make photo books for each year but never get round to it.
 
Sometimes I incorporate pages of photos into the books I print with my layouts (usually peppered throughout the book).

My photos are organized similarly to others by date. Anything imported through LR has the date in the title. Photos are stored on my computer, EHD and in the cloud. Anything taken with my phone is also there.
 
I never felt like I needed to scrap every photo. Good thing because I was so into photography from about 2008 to 2016 that I took tens of thousands of photos every year. I have long had a triple backup system to make sure my images will last as long as I am taking care of them, and I know I can just go into my photo files to any date of interest, or search by words that might be in their captions that I write in Lightroom, and look at any of them. My kids (now adults) are familiar with my file system too, so even they will probably be able to access them someday if they want.

But nowadays, much less of a shutterbug and with grown kids I rarely photograph anymore, I only take about 1 photo on most weekdays, several screenshots, and maybe a dozen or two pics over the weekend depending on my excursions, and 98% of all of those images go into my digital journal (Day One). So in a way, I do scrap all my photos currently, or at least journal about all of them.
 
Laura ODonnell said:
I have mine in Dropbox sorted by year/month and also on am EHD. And we have a bunch in Amazon Photos that flip through the Alexa all day which is fun.

I love your idea of just a look book style photo book
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We don't have an Alexa - the ones I've seen are just a speaker, there must be some with a screen? I'd love to find out more, if I had a frame or something that they cycled through would be fun!!!


Angela Toucan said:
we have an EHD loaded up with photos, and my scrapbook pages in two different main folders. People can either choose to browse the photos (organised by year, month and activity) or my scrapbook pages (organised by year)
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Ooooh I'm way too much of a control freak for that lol I have a shared album (through iPhone) for the kids/hubby that I add things to, but they do not have the ability to browse/delete lol



michelepixels said:
I never felt like I needed to scrap every photo. Good thing because I was so into photography from about 2008 to 2016 that I took tens of thousands of photos every year. I have long had a triple backup system to make sure my images will last as long as I am taking care of them, and I know I can just go into my photo files to any date of interest, or search by words that might be in their captions that I write in Lightroom, and look at any of them. My kids (now adults) are familiar with my file system too, so even they will probably be able to access them someday if they want.

But nowadays, much less of a shutterbug and with grown kids I rarely photograph anymore, I only take about 1 photo on most weekdays, several screenshots, and maybe a dozen or two pics over the weekend depending on my excursions, and 98% of all of those images go into my digital journal (Day One). So in a way, I do scrap all my photos currently, or at least journal about all of them.
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I love Day One!!! I tag my photos through Mac Photos - we have all Apple devices, so it works for me. When I print my pages they are individual pages (because I don't scrap in order), and then get put in albums by year. I'm super Type A in most things I do, but for scrapping I'm loosey-goosey, which I find amusing lol
 
The Alexas with a screen is called the Echo. I have one but don't use it for photos.

As for me, I have mine saved on my hard drive and several EHD's. Store by year/month/date except for scanned photos. Those are saved in folders named year-event name so they sort oldest to newest. I very rarely print photos since I digiscrap. I have printed some in larger sizes to display if I really like them. I also do not scrap every photo.
 
All of mine are living on my computer and various backups. I have a lot of them uploaded to Amazon Photos, so when the tv is on and no one is watching, the Firestick takes us on a walk down memory lane lol
 
On the computer,and backed up on at least 2 drives at any one time. From my digital camera I also NEVER delete or reformat the memory cards, and I do not always fill them up, if it is ex a 64 card ( hate those ) , it will take me more than a year to take that many photos. So I will replace it after about a year,wether it is full or not. and Google photos back up the ones from my phone automatically.
 
I only scrap the big stuff on separate pages and then like I mentioned in the MOC challenge I hosted this year, I create a monthly two page spread at the end of each month that captures a bunch of the misc. type photos that aren't quite important enough to get their own page, but are still cool little everyday bits of our lives. Anything else that doesn't make the cut to be scrapped just stays on my EHD. I have a folder each year, and a folder for each month inside each year.

That is pretty cool that you do yearbooks of photos for each year to capture yours though. I love that idea and I love the name! :giggle Clever!
 
Love the name of your albums.

Like you I don't scrap chronologically or create specific yearly albums or event albums. I don't scrap all the photos I take either.
So usually they sit on the hard drive.

To be fair, most of them are just random things, days, etc. or "bad" photos, or photos where I've taken a pic of something I'm selling or showing off etc...like my desk for a challenge or something similar.

I have created some photo only photobooks like you, I used a print service called Chatbooks back when it started because I was getting lots of codes for free books as they worked to solidify their market place.
 
They are just sitting on my computer, organized by year/month. Hoping that one day, maybe when my kids are all grown and out of the house I'll be able to go back and scrap some of them.
 
Karen said:
I only scrap the big stuff on separate pages and then like I mentioned in the MOC challenge I hosted this year, I create a monthly two page spread at the end of each month that captures a bunch of the misc. type photos that aren't quite important enough to get their own page, but are still cool little everyday bits of our lives. Anything else that doesn't make the cut to be scrapped just stays on my EHD. I have a folder each year, and a folder for each month inside each year.

That is pretty cool that you do yearbooks of photos for each year to capture yours though. I love that idea and I love the name! :giggle Clever!
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I basically do this. All the photos go into a "yearbook ". I feel it all needs to be printed. Layouts for "events" by month and then random photos not worthy of "event" status by month in grid layout. Just to have them included and printed.
 
Okay - I am "odd man out". I do scrap almost every good photo (i.e. the best of the same 8 shots) and I scrap chronologically. I was almost caught up and then Covid came and it really messed with my digital scrapping mojo. I went back to real live paper & stickers, but not to scrap, just to create. I did finish 2020. I have a few vacations to do since 2018.

All my digital are all loaded up into Lightroom, sorted by topic (LR does by date automatically). Photos prior to my first digital camera are all printed and sorted in boxes by year.
 
My photos are on two drives and backed up with Backblaze and Google Photos.

I only print photos if I want to change out photos in frames I use in decorating around the house.

I keep track of what photos I've scrapped by color coding them in Lightroom.

I'm OK not being caught up and being a willy-nilly scrapbooker, not scrapping chronologically. Daniel is my youngest and he will graduate this year. I see an empty nest ahead of us and look forward to revisiting old memories and scrapping them.
 
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