DIY Photo Organising Fiona Staff and Chantal Imbach
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107 | How to keep your photos organised after baby arrives
Are you expecting a baby? Then this episode is totally for you! Even if you have already welcomed your baby recently, we encourage to join us, we’re sure there is a tip or two for everyone with children.
When a new baby comes into our life, many things change and sometimes routines and habits simply fly out the window and life can get a bit chaotic. Before we know it, photo chaos has taken over and we are drowning in cute baby photos.
Listen in to hear some tips about how you can stay on top of things when it comes to your photo management. One key is preparation. Now is not the time to work through your backlog of thousands of photos. However, if you can, make sure that your backlog is backed up so it will be there once you are ready to curate that collection.
Nothing stops you from implementing a system if you haven’t got one yet. Regularly transfer your photos to your photo hub and back it up using the 3-2-1 method (more about that in our 5 Golden Rules episodes). Hone your skills before baby arrives and it will be so much easier for you.
This great new iPhone app to help clean up your camera roll is Ollie*. You can get it at a discounted rate using this link* and the code DIYPHOTO20.
Also a great place to start is to take one of Miss Freddy’s courses, especially the Backup Bootcamp* or check out the many courses over at The Photo Managers Academy* to find a suitable course.
Finally, we’ like to encourage you to be mindful about privacy when sharing photos. Refer to Episode 099 to learn more about this topic. You even might want to have a chat with relatives about it, too, so that nobody shares photos of your children if you’re not comfortable with it.
Mentioned Links / Products
The Photo Managers Academy*
Backup Bootcamp*
Ollie*
Related episodes
Episode 002 Golden Rule 1 - Backup
Episode 003 Golden Rule 2 – Know Your Why
Episode 004 Golden Rule 3 – Create a Hub
Episode 005 Golden Rule 4 – Sort and Organise (Part 1 – Digital Photos)
Episode 018 Manage your photos using your iPhone
Episode 023 5 Steps to get you Started NOW
Episode 033 5 Golden Rules Highlights
Episode 038 Learn how to take photos you will want to keep! with Lauren Sandford- The Eternal Second
Episode 049 How to Stop Procrastinating about your Photos
Episode 052 Questions People Ask 5 How do I gather photos from other family members?
Episode 053 Questions People Ask 6 How do I share photos with others?
Episode 057 Story Jotting with Katie Chambers- Memories to Legacy
Episode 058 Time to get your Backup sorted!
Episode 060 How many photos do we really need?
Episode 063 The Magic of Maintenance
Episode 067 DIY Photo Organising Courses with Miss Freddy, Adam Pratt and Caroline Guntur
Episode 069 Photo traditions to document growth and change
Episode 080 5 Essential Photo Management Tips
Episode 099 Privacy Terms when sharing Photos with Allison Freedman – Arrange Wander Focus
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home.
* We want to keep this podcast is ad-free. Instead, we have partnered with affiliate course creators we highly recommend and hence earn a little commission if you buy a course through us. If you do so, you help us running the podcast and we thank you from the bottom of our h -
106 | How to move forward and stop procrastinating
Are you good at procrastinating about your photos? Well, you are not alone!
Since Chantal is planning to run mini-classes / workshops soon she recently conducted a survey to find out what readers and listeners are interested in most. The clear winner was ‘How to Stop Procrastinating about my Photos’.
Interestingly, Fiona and Chantal have already created an e-guide (downloadable here) about that very topic.
Since it seems to be such a popular topic, we are re-visiting some of its content and are diving a bit deeper in some of the reasons why we tend to procrastinate when it comes to our photos and what we can do about it.
Possible and typical reasons are for example the lack of knowledge of how to do something, using goals that are too abstract or perfectionism.
Get our free e-guide to see more details here!
The big question is how we can overcome procrastination and, unsurprisingly, we recommend to become really clear about your Why, which is our Golden Rule 2.
Not only this, we are also talking about individual’s core values such as integrity, honesty, creativity and many more, and how these can influence our Why. As always, we are using practical examples that hopefully encourage you to getting started.
Mentioned Links / ProductsSurvey re online classes
E-guide How to Stop Procrasting about your Photos
Related episodes
Episode 003 Golden Rule 2 – Know Your Why
Episode 023 5 Steps to get you Started NOW
Episode 032 New Year’s Resolutions with your photos
Episode 033 5 Golden Rules Highlights
Episode 049 How to Stop Procrastinating about your Photos
Episode 070 Realistic time frames in Photo Organising
Episode 082 Planning Photo Projects
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home. -
105 | How Mylio changes the way the world remembers
We are excited and honoured to welcome David Vaskevitch from Mylio Photos today.
Tune in to find out why he thinks of Mylio Photos not only as his second heart but also his second brain. He shares some of his personal stories that wonderfully show how a good photo management program can help us keep memories alive and also have fun with our photos.
We learn about various features Mylio Photos offers, such as:
importing photos, videos and documents from various sources
the event feature, which he calls the ‘Life Calendar’
the easy implementation of the 3-2-1 backup method we always promote (find out more in episode #002)
the fact that Mylio Photos works across all platforms. It doesn’t matter, whether you use an iPhone, an Android phone, a PC or a Mac. It simply works for every device.
the new deduplication and decluttering feature and
the shared albums option.
There are many more things to learn about Mylio Photos and as David said: “learning Mylio is a journey and you can start small”. He encourages us all to not shy away from it because it might look overwhelming at first glance. In his words: “if you learned to drive a car, you can easily learn Mylio!”
We encourage you to have a look at this program, especially if you don’t use another one yet and are looking for a solution to store and manage your memories. Check it out here. You can start with the free plan before making any decisions.
Mylio Photos also has a great support team that can help you if you have questions or find lots of tutorials over at their YouTube channel.
Mentioned Links
Download Mylio Photos (affiliate link)
Mylio Photos YouTube channel
Related episodes
Episode 002 Golden Rule 1 – Backup
Episode 004 Golden Rule 3 – Create a Hub
Episode 005 Golden Rule 4 – Sort and Organise (Part 1 – Digital Photos)
Episode 009 Understanding Photo MetadataEpisode 016 Keep photos safe while travelling
Episode 019 Synchronising vs Backing Up
Episode 024 Transferring photos from iPhone to Windows PC
Episode 026 Will your Photos survive a Disaster?
Episode 028 What to do with your Work Photos
Episode 030 Backing up Apple Devices without iTunes
Episode 039 Photos that DON’T belong in a Photo Collection
Episode 044 Questions People Ask 2 How do I rename my photos?
Episode 052 Questions People Ask 5 How do I gather photos from other family members?
Episode 053 Questions People Ask 6 How do I share photos with others?
Episode 058 Time to get your Backup sorted!
Episode 059 What Photo Management Software is Right for Me?
Episode 066 Make your photos searchable with keywords
Episode 087 Transferring Android phone photos to a computer
Episode 093 Digital Photo Management on the Go
Episode 102 Is using only a folder structure outdated?
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home. -
104 | Photo project ideas and a real life example
Before we start with the actual topic of this episode, Chantal would like to ask you for a favour. She is planning to offer short online classes in the future. She’d really appreciate if you could take a minute to fill in this survey for her so she can find out what you are most interested in.
Now on to our today’s topic:
Chantal just came back from Switzerland where she helped celebrate her mum’s 80th birthday. Of course, that involved some photo gifts.
Hence, today she can share with us what she created and how she went about it. It’s a real life case study, so to speak.
We are talking about four projects she did:
A printed A3 photo book of mum’s life
A Nixplay (digital photo frame) playlist with photos used in book, displayed during the celebrations
Peg line with fairy lights to decorate the room on the day of the celebration with printed photos of mum
A memory scrapbook using photos taken and printed on the day of the celebration with messages from visitors and guests
Chantal not only describes what the projects were but also how she tackled each of the projects. We discuss the process, the design steps including what the struggles and what the easy parts were.
There will also be one or two blog posts about that topic over at Photos In Order’s blog page.
Mentioned Links / Products
To the survey re online classes
https://www.momento.com.au/
10” Nixplay frame
Instax Square Link Smartphone Printer by Fujifilm
8x8 Creative Memory book, empty pages with protective sleeves (affiliate link)
Blog at Photos In Order: www.photosinorder.com.au/blog
Related episodes
Episode 008 Create a Yearly Photobook
Episode 012 Fabulous Photo Gift Ideas
Episode 027 Photo Gifts for Christmas
Episode 035 Introducing you to the world of Digital Scrapbooking with Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ
Episode 052 Questions People Ask 5 How do I gather photos from other family members?
Episode 054 How to Design your 2020 Year Book
Episode 061 Photo Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day
Episode 066 Make your photos searchable with keywords
Episode 082 Planning Photo Projects
Episode 101 Design Photo Books like a Pro with Libby Jeffery - Momento
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home. -
103 | Swedish Death Cleaning and Photos with Caroline Guntur
We are thrilled to have Caroline Guntur from The Swedish Organizer back as our special guest to talk about the approach author Margareta Magnusson describes in her book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.
Caroline has recently written a blog post that drew our attention: Respectfully, This is the ONE Thing Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Completely Wrong. We could really relate to what she has written and wanted to hear and learn more about her take on The Swedish Death Cleaning approach.
Whilst we of course talk about photos and memories, Caroline also gives us an overview and explanation where The Swedish Death Cleaning comes from and how ingrained it is in her culture. How it’s about downsizing, minimising our footprint, consuming only what we need and pay it forward to others if we have too much.
It is a long-term approach and philosophy rather than a once-off big decluttering and organising project, and this episode is definitely one not to be missed!
Having said this, there is (as always) no wrong or right. However, approaching this method in a different order of operation - as Caroline suggests - makes sense to us and you also might be interested to learn more about it and to give it a go.
If you do need help for your photo management, we encourage you to check out Caroline’s courses*. They are very thorough and well structured and come highly recommended.
Mentioned Links
Caroline’s blog: https://www.organizingphotos.net
Caroline’s website: https://www.theswedishorganizer.com
Related episodes
Episode 079 When should I organise my photos when decluttering my home?
Episode 003 Golden Rule 2 – Know Your Why
Episode 011 KonMari your Photos?
Episode 037 Exploring Genealogy with Caroline Guntur - The Swedish Organizer
Episode 034 Storytelling with Your Photos with Mara Morrison - The Filing Fairies
Episode 039 Photos that DON’T belong in a Photo Collection
Episode 057 Story Jotting with Katie Chambers- Memories to Legacy
Episode 082 Planning Photo Projects
Episode 094 What’s A Photo Without Story with Hazel Thornton – Organized for Life and Beyond
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home.
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102 | Is using only a folder structure outdated?
The short answer is: No, it seems it is not outdated!
Findings from a recent survey we conducted amongst our listeners showed that using a simple folder structure as opposed to a photo management program is not as out of fashion as we might have thought.
Listen in to find out
where people store their digital photos,
how they structure their folders of their photo collection and
which programs they use to manage them.
We also respond to some comments and questions such as what to do when running out of storage space on your computer, or if you’d rather not use the cloud and many more.
We were especially pleased to hear from multiple listeners that they have put the 3-2-1 backup system in place - bravo! If you haven’t got a system in place yet, check out our episode Episode 002 Golden Rule 1 - Backup.
Mentioned Links
Access a prepared folder structure and download for free here
Related episodes
Episode 005 Golden Rule 4 – Sort and Organise (Part 1 – Digital Photos)
Episode 006 Golden Rule 4 – Sort and Organise (Part 2 – Printed Photos)
Episode 023 5 Steps to get you Started NOW
Episode 046 Questions People Ask 4 What is your take on Photo Sticks?
Episode 049 How to Stop Procrastinating about your Photos
Episode 063 The Magic of Maintenance
Episode 089 5 tips for sorting printed photos
Episode 096 The Apple Ecosystem with Paul Einarsen – Blue Water Imaging
If you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please don't hesitate to share them with us via the Wishlist for Future Episodes!
We invite you to have a look through our DIY Photo Organising Courses so you can decide which of these courses might be what you need to help you move forward with your photo organising projects.
If you’d like to learn more about us, go to:
www.diyphotoorganising.com.au
Fiona Staff’s website: www.photohelper.com.au or
Chantal Imbach’s website: www.photosinorder.com.au
If you are not in Melbourne and would like to explore having a Photo Manager help you, check out www.thephotomanagers.com to find help closer to home.
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