PROFESSIONAL PHOTO MANAGER

I wish I could record the comments that people make when we talk photos. Friends will flat-out tell me their photo mess is the worst I’ve ever seen. Others tell me how much they or their mother need me. Photos can be powerful and amazing, but they can also be a source of stress and guilt when people are afraid of losing photos, are overwhelmed by how many they have, or are paralyzed because they don’t know where to start. Here are some actions for relieving the stress and creating a healthy photo mindset.

Everyone has duplicate photos in their collection. Whether you’ve saved photos sent to you multiple times or you’ve lost track of backups, duplicates are both a constant and a nuisance in the digital photo world. There are 2 ways to remove duplicates, manually or with technology, like software or an app. My vote…100%…is to use technology. Here are my favorite deduplication tools.

My mission in this world is to help people find ways to bring joy into their lives on a daily basis through their photos and memories. The simpler the strategy, the better. Enter…the widget. What is a photo widget? Simply put, it allows you to display photos on your smartphone screen. They are easy and free. Here’s how you add them to your phone.

Last year, Heather contacted me looking for help with her photos before a move. Fast forward several months when an unexpected event turned the task of organizing her photos into archiving her family’s memories.

In practical terms, here are some tips and things to consider if you want to ‘archive' your family memory collection.

We use our phones differently today than we did even 5 years ago. People of all ages are overwhelming their camera rolls with reminder photos, shopping screenshots, and various documents to help manage their lives. One solution to help control and organize this clutter is to create a virtual bulletin board in your camera roll.

If you’ve read or watched any type of news media recently you’ve no doubt seen AI (Artificial Intelligence) referenced in multiple contexts. In the photo world, AI is playing a more prominent role in helping us organize our photos. It can accomplish some amazing things and save us a ton of time, but the trust that we are putting into it also creates some challenges.

As a professional photo manager, I’m always on the lookout for new photo apps that will make my clients’ lives easier, as well as enhance their ability to enjoy and preserve their photos and memories. At the 2023 TPM Photo Manager’s conference, these 3 apps stood out. They aren’t perfect yet, but I’m excited about the possibilities.

It’s very common for me to run into devices that haven’t been updated, whether they be old computers, newer computers, or smartphones, while working on organizing a client’s digital photo collection. If you don’t pay a lot of attention to the tech world, it’s sometimes scary to click the update button or to trust Apple or Microsoft to just automatically deliver your updates. I get that…so should you?

I often hear people say that they want to store their photos in "The Cloud". While I'm a huge believer in cloud backup, I think before a person chooses this option, it's important that they understand what it means. Here are a few things that I've learned about the "Cloud".

In Fall of 2022, Apple released its latest Operating System, MacOS Ventura, along with iOS 16.1. With it, came a feature that many of my clients have been asking for, the iCloud Shared Photo Library. Before diving in, here are some of the things you should know.