The Filing Fairies | Photo Organising

10 Apr Your photos are like buried treasure

Posted at 13:57h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising, Printed Photos, Uncategorized by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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Last year someone told me that as a professional photo organiser I was like a pirate hunting for buried treasure and the treasures we helped uncover are precious photo memories. It was something that really appealed to me so I dug out this old snap...

27 Mar What is inside our Photo Organising kit

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This video popped up on one of my memory feeds and I thought I would do a recap of what we take along to our photo organising assessment meetings.

13 Mar 6 Threats To Your Photos

Posted at 09:14h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising, Printed Photos, Scanning Photos by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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There are a number of ways your photos are at risk: Stickies and ickies Your printed images or slides are at risk from acid, damp, light and lignin Acid found most commonly in old magnetic photo albums, from the ink in pens used to label...

12 Jan Stay on top of school memorabilia

Posted at 20:56h in Photo Books, Photo Organising, Printed Photos, Uncategorized by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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19 Dec Do you have a family doppelganger?

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05 Dec 3 Reasons You Should Scan Your Photos

Posted at 08:51h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising, Printed Photos, Scanning Photos by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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If you read our last blog post we posed the photo organising equivalent of chicken or the egg to you and then suggested that your first priority was to organise your digital photos. If you have done that and are now looking at organising your printed...

21 Nov Which came first, the printed or the digital?

Posted at 09:50h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising, Printed Photos, Professional Organiser by Mara The Filing Fairy 3 Comments

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Imagine you are starting on a photo organising project, which collections are you inclined to tackle first? The dusty old boxes and albums of physical photos and memorabilia or The digital images scattered across multiple devices? We all know that the digital camera entered the average...

07 Nov Know thyself and make good choices

Posted at 08:06h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising by Mara The Filing Fairy 1 Comment

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For those of you who TOOK THE PLEDGE you might remember receiving Day 13’s tip. "when you choose photo organizing software you need to consider your comfort level with technology, your operating system and your time and most importantly your lifestyle" We love this advice so...

24 Oct Plan B and Photo Book Hack

Posted at 09:21h in Digital Photos, Photo Books, Photo Organising by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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A client recently said to me after loosing a number of digital images through computer crash that it was all OK, she had the important images in her Facebook history. She made a good point… well sort of.

10 Oct Your story is at risk

Posted at 09:47h in Photo Books, Photo Filing, Photo Organising by Mara The Filing Fairy 5 Comments

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We hope that you enjoyed our 4 part series on Protecting Your Photos While Travelling. Be sure to flick back through the last 4 weeks of posts if you missed them. As many of you would be aware September was Save Your Photos Month but of...