Week 3
So, your paper is
beautifully organized, your scraps carefully stashed or purged, and your desk
is gleaming! Doesn't it make you feel creative? Don't you want to
get cropping? Well, you CAN'T scrapbook without PHOTOS!
Our third challenge
is to organize our photos. Here are a few articles to get you thinking
about how to organize those precious photos before we S.P.A.C.E.
them:
http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Organization/Photographs/113.php (this
is an excellent article)
SORT: Gather together
all of your photos, and sort them into categories that make sense: TRASH
(it's okay to throw out photos with bad colour, expression, composition.
Why keep them? You're not going to scrapbook them) TO SCRAPBOOK (the
shots you know you are going to use) TO STORE (photos that need to be kept, but
aren't necessarily going to be going into your scrapbooks) TO GIVE AWAY
(doubles that you want to send to friends and family)
PURGE: Throw out the
TRASH pile. Put the TO GIVE AWAY photos in envelopes and mail them to
friends/family, or put them in your car so you can drop them off the next time
you visit. Do not leave them in your studio, or they will creep back into
your organized space.
ASSIGN: Sort the
final two groups of photos into a system that makes sense to you:
Chronologically
Holiday/Event/Vacation
Person
CONTAINERIZE: Now
it's time to decide how you want to store your photos. Perhaps you want
to put your TO STORE photos in acid free envelopes or albums. Perhaps you
want to put your TO SCRAPBOOK photos into photo storage boxes, or accordion
folders.
EQUALIZE: Next time
you get new photos from the photo processor, spend a couple of minutes and put
the photos where they belong: throw out the bad shots, give away the extras,
put the keepers away in their album, and sort your photos for scrapbooking into
their container.
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