The Filing Fairies | organise my photos

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...

31 Aug Vocational Happiness: A Fairy Tale Come True

Posted at 10:32h in Professional Organiser, Uncategorized by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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22 Aug Do’s and Don’ts of Handling Magnetic Albums

Posted at 08:45h in Photo Organising, Photo Organizing, Printed Photos, Scanning Photos by Mara The Filing Fairy 4 Comments

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We see many prints that have been damaged as they have been removed from a magnetic album. They are difficult to handle and time consuming to repair. Today we are sharing some tips for working with prints that are in a magnetic album. Archivists have...

08 Aug Get Your Photos Off Your Device & Into Your Life

Posted at 09:49h in Digital Photos, Photo Filing, Photo Organising, Photo Organizing by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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20160808 Get your photos off your device and into your life

08 May A Mother’s Day Challenge

Posted at 08:24h in Photo Organising, Printed Photos by Mara The Filing Fairy 1 Comment

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As I was planning this blog post, I went looking through photos from my own childhood. I found less than a dozen photos of my mum and myself together, and I was either a tiny baby or a sullen teen (sorry mum). The first nice one was from my wedding in 2007. I know I am giving away my age here but statistically speaking that is only 0.33 photos per year over 33 years! Not only is that shockingly low it makes me so sad and regretful.

03 Nov 4 tips for identifying WHEN a photo was taken

Posted at 08:16h in Photo Filing, Photo Organising by Mara The Filing Fairy 2 Comments

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During a photo organising project we are constantly identifying and categorising images. Often those images are grouped by year or decade. Here are our top 4 things to look at as you are trying to identify WHEN a photo was taken.

13 Oct Your photos organised in 5 simple steps

Posted at 08:45h in Photo Filing, Photo Organising by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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Each month (sometimes more often) we practice our MOON walk to keep our photos organised. MUSTER: Gather up all your devices (smart phone, cameras, laptops, PC’s, USB’s), along with their adapters and cords. And/or login to your cloud storage (iCloud, SkyDrive, Google Drive) if your images...

26 Sep Flying our flag as Australian Ambassadors

Posted at 15:50h in Photo Organising, Professional Organiser by Mara The Filing Fairy 0 Comments

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Did you know that Photo Organising has it's own association?

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05 Dec 3 Reasons You Should Scan Your Photos

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

07 Nov Know thyself and make good choices

31 Aug Vocational Happiness: A Fairy Tale Come True

22 Aug Do’s and Don’ts of Handling Magnetic Albums

08 Aug Get Your Photos Off Your Device & Into Your Life

08 May A Mother’s Day Challenge

03 Nov 4 tips for identifying WHEN a photo was taken

13 Oct Your photos organised in 5 simple steps

26 Sep Flying our flag as Australian Ambassadors