8 Weeks to Organize Your Photos- Week 4- Edit and Narrow Down Your Photos - Freeland Photography LLC

Now that we have to take a few steps to figure out how you want to organize your photos, we will work on what you should do with them next.

First we need to go thru a quick little tool that does not get used nearly as often as it should. Not using this tool leaves us with 100’s and dare I even say $1,000’s of unnecessary photos and storage used.

And it’s the DELETE button.

I know, it seems harsh, but I am one to attest that photos get out of hand real quick when that little trash can goes unused. Really, I know this first hand because I currently have almost 56,000 photos on my phone and in my iCloud storage. Yes you read that correct, and no it wasn't a typo! Almost 56,000. And I bet about 60% of those are duplicates, screenshots, saved images of meme’s and funny cat photos. Do I need those to continue to take up space, NO! Do I need to clear them out so I don’t feel so overwhelmed with what I have in those albums. YES

So now that we have worked on how you want to store your photos, lets work on pairing them down(in the photo industry we call this culling) so you are only keeping the best of the best.

If you made it thru the 3 weeks so far, even if it’s just a month or two that you organized. Now go thru them and see if there are photos that are just so-so, or that you don’t like, or that have blinks, are blurry, etc. I tell my clients all the time, if you do not like the photo now, you will not like it later. It’s not like veggies when you are young, You won’t eventually like it later. You’ll learn to tolerate it, but never LOVE it. So why even keep them?

Go thru those albums and start to delete the ones that are blurry not great images(you can’t fix blurry photos later in photoshop no matter what kind of filter you use) and the ones that are duplicates or the ones that have blinks, bad faces, etc.

The point of doing this is to narrow down your images of a certain time or event to the best of the best. The ones you want to save and remember later. These are the ones you should back up AND make printed copies of them.

Now working on editing your images. Most of our phones now have editing capabilities in the photo gallery app to edit images. If you have images that are too dark, now is the time to go thru the album and lighten them. If you want to saturate the colors, or sharpen some details then do this all now. As you start putting your images in galleries, edit the photos and delete the ones you don’t want.

SOON you’ll be ready to print and back these all up with the ones you absolutely love.

Next week I will go over how to find printers and what kind of products you can print.

How are you doing? We are a month in and have you kept up? Have you organized any? Let me know in the comments below or shoot me an email carrie@freelandphotos.com with any topics you want me to cover!

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