Tips on How to Organize Your Photos

Organizing your photos is the key to scrapbooking. Once you have all your photos in once place and organized, you will find it easy to put these photos into albums. There are many types of photo boxes that are sold at scrapbook stores and craft stores. There are four simple steps that you can use to get your photo collection organized. First, gather all your photos in one place. Search your house, get them all! Look in drawers, envelopes, bags and boxes or wherever else you stash your photos and bring them all together in one place. You may find memorabilia during your search, grab that too.
Second, you need to decide how you want to organize your photos. You can think about this while you are searching for them. There are a few decisions you need to make and it sometimes helps to make a list of a few themes such as family, friends, celebrations and vacations. You can also create a timeline and sort them chronologically. Third, you are going to sort your photos. Once you have decided how you want to organize your photos sorting will be easy. While you are sorting do just that SORT! Do not spend too much time reminiscing about each photo. You can do that once your photos are in albums. Sorting your photos will be a unique and personal project. YOU need to decide what technique you want to use. Here are four examples of sorting techniques to get you started. You can use these or come up with your own.

Family: This group can include all things done with your immediate family as well as events that occur to other family members that you would like to remember. Vacations: It is fun to travel and you can create an album just about vacations and travel

Childhood/School Albums: Creating albums just about your children is so much fun. It builds their confidence and self esteem. You can create a school album and a special events album for each child or combine the two into one album. Either way it is going to be so special to your children for them to having a history of their childhood.

Heritage: Do you have lots of photos that are from your family heritage? You could put them into an album. Sort them so that they can be used to tell a story. You many want to begin with separating photos by family lineage (for example, your father’s family and your father’s family).

Fourth, you need commit to get organized and to get started. Album making will be fun and easy once you have everything you need in one place. Commit to keeping your pages simple using time-saving products, such as pre-cut papers or themed sticker packs.

Now you have learned the steps to getting your photos organized. Collect, Decide, Sort and Commit and you are well on your way to creating your first album. To stay organized in the future, put them in the proper categories immediately when you get your photos developed. That will keep you organized all the time so you don’t have the need to start all over again.