i have the darndest time figureing out which photos i will scrap and ones i will just toss.. i try to capture what i want to scrap but sometimes i make so darn many with my digital camera its impossible to scrap them all.. ever since owning a digital i go crazy snapping away..does anyone else do this too? just curious.. chatty cathy
I try to keep my photos sorted into the CM photo storage boxes by event or person. After I go through a packet and scrap the ones I want I date the back or the extras and make any notes I want to add and divide them into smaller boxes for my children. Two of my DD's scrap themselves and they often go through their boxes and take photos to scrap now. I do also critique the extra photos before I put them in the boxes. If they are not fit to scrap I toss them. Sandy
Yes, I'm the exact same way. We just got back from a 4 day mini vacation from gatlinberg. And because i have a digital camera I took over 600 pictures. Now I have to go through and figure out which ones i want to print to scrap. I don't scrap them all.
Well, I download all my images (I use a digital camera now). to my computer and then I pick the ones I really want to scrap and only have those printed... Have not done this much yet... but that is how I plan to do it. With film, I used to get double prints and I would scrap almost everything I had... But after 30+ years of taking several rolls of film for every event, and then not being able to get them all printed... I ended up with a lot of film to develop and still have about 30 rolls of 35mm... and we won't even talk about how many
110.... I determined that when I got my digital camera that I would do it differently.. And so far I have. I have taken about 1000 pictures and have down loaded them all to my computer and some of them several times (so they would not possibly all disappear). And at the present time I have only had 100 printed... to scrap book or to show and give away... (New Grandbaby)..I really do love the digital better. (I never thought I would say that). But you can actually see before you have the pictures printed whether or not they are good shots... Hubby won't let me delete the bad ones (He says we will want to look back and laugh at them)... I say they are a waste of time and space... so I try to delete some of the ones I think are really horrible... I definitely think that you should use the best ones... But in some cases, I only have a picture of something or someone... and even if it is blurry or bad lighting or what ever, I try to scrap it for the reason of it is the only one I have...
I buy the postcard pages to place in my albums so I can place the extra/unlayoutable ones in them. they hold 12 extras in each page. So instead of say 6 pages of basically the same thing I can scrap 2 and place the rest in the postcards inserts.
cowchipper
I do have a lot of photos too, but as I scrap I do find I throw away a few too. Some are no brainers... blurry, people not smiling, or action of event not caught quite right. Other times I'll have 12 photos and I only want to dedicate one page to maybe 2 for the LO and there are just too many photos. Then I try and see if some resemble each other or some way to cut them back. Maybe cut out just the right part to make the photos smallers.
Yes, I feel you pain when it comes to culling through the photos.
Lynne
I'll do the same thing if I end up with only a few from an event or person and they are not the best....scrap them anyway. The whole idea of scrapping is to preserve the memory. I run into that a lot with my older photos. Sometimes if it is a family event I harass my sisters till they let me go through their photos and make copies. Sandy
Well, I download all my images (I use a digital camera now). to my computer and then I pick the ones I really want to scrap and only have those printed... Have not done this much yet... but that is how I plan to do it. With film, I used to get double prints and I would scrap almost everything I had... But after 30+ years of taking several rolls of film for every event, and then not being able to get them all printed... I ended up with a lot of film to develop and still have about 30 rolls of 35mm... and we won't even talk about how many
110.... I determined that when I got my digital camera that I would do it differently.. And so far I have. I have taken about 1000 pictures and have down loaded them all to my computer and some of them several times (so they would not possibly all disappear). And at the present time I have only had 100 printed... to scrap book or to show and give away... (New Grandbaby)..I really do love the digital better. (I never thought I would say that). But you can actually see before you have the pictures printed whether or not they are good shots... Hubby won't let me delete the bad ones (He says we will want to look back and laugh at them)... I say they are a waste of time and space... so I try to delete some of the ones I think are really horrible... I definitely think that you should use the best ones... But in some cases, I only have a picture of something or someone... and even if it is blurry or bad lighting or what ever, I try to scrap it for the reason of it is the only one I have...
I have a hard time throwing pictures away and deciding which ones I do want to actually scrap. I like Aprils idea of having the xtra pages in theback for extra pics. Linda
I've got 4 hard drives, 2 are almost completely full of pics and videos, plus tons on the other two as well--seriously, I probably have 500GB of stuff since before Maya was born!
I'd LOVE to scrap them all but it would take the rest of my life. :-) So what I do is put them in categories (in my head, haven't had time in the past few years to sit down and re-file everything, but that's the plan eventually) like Christmas, pre-school, births, family get-togethers, etc. Then I'll pick the best of the rest to scrap into albums labeled the same way. Hopefully someday I'll be all organized and neat! But like I said, probably not in my lifetime, LOL.
In addition to all these I got a TON of family paperwork and old pictures sitting in several tubs upstairs that I need to scan digitally eventually, some of those I'll scrap for heritage/genealogy albums as well.
Good luck! You aren't alone with the quick 'trigger' finger, LOL! :-)
Carolyne in TX
Or to save space you can scan them digitally onto a multi-GB dvd and have that in the back. I recently bought some baby albums for the grandparents and there was a nice little cardboard pocket attached on the inside of the back cover for this very thing. Not so bulky in your album then. If you just can't bear to get rid of your pics even after saving them to disk you can store them in those nice storage boxes the stores have on sale periodically. I always pick up a bunch of them, especially since they take up less space than bigger clear shoeboxes, etc.
There is no way I could scrap all of my photos. I am right there with you guys about taking hundreds of photos. =) I usually take 2 or 3 for each event or day that I want scrapped and keep the rest saved in multiple places and on DVD's. One things I have found that I love doing is making a DVD of photos that I can have. I can use more photos that way and have a pretty cool movie of an event or place.
Crystal
Never!
Its an old Stacy Julian (Simple Scrapbooks) mantra "You do not need to scrap EVERY picture" Changed my life-literally. Took away the guilt and made the hobby fun again. I shoot 4x the pics I need, print the good ones and archive everything else. Now that we're all basically digital, why scrap every picture? Isn't the point to shoot-shoot-shoot and hope for that really great shot?
my 2-cents Kathy
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