 I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of my new subscribers and thank my existing subscribers for their continued support of my monthly newsletter. I sincerely enjoy bringing you these tips, and I love the positive feedback! I would like to take the time to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. This time of year especially, people find themselves taking more photos and videos to capture the happy times spent with family and friends. Make sure your photo memories are safe for years to come by saving them properly, labeling them right away and keeping them in more than one place. This article will explain the best way to save your files as well as keep them organized to enjoy time and time again. As always, if you need any help organizing any room or garage in your home, or any workspace or storage space at your place of business, I am available to help get organized. All you have to do is contact me. -Robert
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How to Organize Your Video and Picture Library
 With the holidays fast approaching, and families getting together to celebrate, one of the most important things you can do to preserve your memories is to organize your video and picture library.
So many of us have our photos and videos scattered all about, usually with little or no back-up. Not only is it harder to find a specific image, it is at a high risk of being lost forever. You can do this task yourself, or hire a professional organizer to help.
Use a Dedicated External Hard Drive
Using an external hard drive to store your video and pictures on it will keep you from taking up space on your computer's hard drive. Buy an external hard drive to use only as your picture and video library. Keep it in a safe place, and you will always have your special memories.
Label Photos
Label all photos as you save them, videos too. Don't keep dropping all your images into one file. Spend some time sorting out the ones you want to keep, and delete the rest. If you have several similar photos, choose the highest quality one to keep. Take the time to label each image and video with dates, the names of the people in them, and where it was taken. If it was from a special event, make note of that as well.
Label Folders
Label photo and video folders in order to stay organized. Make a separate folder for each event you took pictures of. Label it with the date and event name. Random images can be placed in folders labeled with the year and season. For example, pictures in the summer months could all be classified as "summer 2013."
Empty Your SD Card Regularly
We have all been guilty of this. We keep way too many pictures and videos on the SD card in the camera. Empty the SD Card routinely. By clearing photos from your SD card, you are making sure you'll never get stuck without enough room.
Having a full card can lead to hastily deleting photos and videos you will later wish you had kept. You could also miss a current photo opportunity. If you can't remove photos after each event, set up a specific day each month to do it.
Keep Copies of All Pictures and Videos
Have at least two copies of your saved photos. Choose two places to keep them from among the following choices.
- Computer or Laptop
- DVDs
- CDs
- Hard Drive
- Thumb Drive
- Internet Storage
A Professional Organizing Service can help you with this. Keep each copy in a different spot, preferably far from each other. That way if a disaster destroys your pictures in one area, you will still have them in the other location. A cloud-based service on the web is ideal for a secure second place, especially in the case of a flood, fire, or other natural disaster.
You can also keep a copy with other important items in a fire proof storage safe or a safe deposit box. Remember to check your pictures each year to assure they are still readable. You will need to make new copies every five years, so as not to lose the data.
A Professional Organizer could be essential if you have several years of photos and video. They can help you get everything arranged and labeled, ready for safe keeping. Whether you have done the work yourself or not, be sure to keep up with all future images. Nothing is more devastating than to lose those special moments caught on video and in pictures. |
Sincerely, Robert Mizrahi
CEO Chaos Commandos |
