Erika Thornes describes that more photos are taken in the digital age than ever before. 2.5 trillion photos a year are being taken. Two billion photos are uploaded to facebook. Erika talks about how we rapid fire photos, taking multiple photos, selecting and culling the best. Memory cards hold more photos than film.
- [Voiceover] Archiving before digital.…Before digital, we would have things we could hold,…like photos, negatives, slides, and albums.…Ahh, the albums.…They're easy to view but they're a little but bulky…and they take up a lot of space on the shelves.…I remember how much work they are.…We'd submit our film, we'd wait a week, we'd get them back,…and eventually the photos would meander into the albums.…Now, my dad took the album to the extreme.…He wrote our family history book…dating back from the 1200s through the 1990s.…
He did this through mail.…Yup, he'd mail the photos back and forth…along with the letters for the context of the photos.…It cost three to $400 a month.…Ugh, he would've loved the internet.…But he did this all on a really old Macintosh…that had floppy drives.…I don't know where those floppy drives are now,…but because I had a hard copy of the book,…I feel pretty confident I'll be able…to pass it onto my kids.…There are a few other copies floating around…through various family and friends so that way,…
Backup is important, but it's not enough. Using keywords and other organizational features is also important—but also not enough. A complete, long-term photo archiving strategy involves multiple techniques: identifying those shots you want to preserve for generations, and then taking the steps necessary to make that happen. In this course, photographer and family historian Erika Thornes outlines a roadmap for storing, sharing, and archiving your family's story through pictures. From culling and keywording, to backing up and producing archival prints and photo books, Erika details the steps that will make your collection of digital images accessible now and in the future.
- Getting organizing
- Culling the best images
- Saving two local copies of each photo
- Storing photos on the cloud
- Posting photos to social media
- Printing photos
- Accessing archived images easily