how do you manage your photos

[Anonymous]

I flip through the 1000s of photos on my phone but am certain my kids will never want to sort through them as adults and at best they'd all in up in a cloud folder somewhere never to be seen again. What's your approach to getting down to a managable number to save as the memories beyond on your phone / personal icloud? Do you print them in books or just create a folder somewhere? Roughly how many do you pull out and how often?

[Anonymous]

Google photos is where I back them up - it has a pretty good search functionality and I assume it will only improve with time.

I print photos out occasionally for frames but I am really bad about that. I wish I made little photo books but.... lazy.

[Anonymous]

I upload mine to Shutterfly on their app and about quarterly I go through and get some printed. It's nice bc then I can get multiples of a few good ones to give to grandparents, etc. I got a thing like this for hanging up photos on a rotating basis: https://www.amazon.com/Mkono-Hanging-Display-Pictures-Organizer/dp/B077JM749G?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_10

The rest that are printed will eventually get put into books (probably). Even if not, I still like looking through old boxes of photos at my parents house so I figure my kids will enjoy that someday too if they don't make it into books.

[Anonymous]

I make a year book with the year's pictures. I make a calendar when Shutterfly runs its free calendar special (right now, actually). I have some frames in my kitchen that display several pictures, and I print out a bunch 2x a year and update that.

[Anonymous]

I also make an annual photo book. I organize my photos through adobe lightroom, which also allows me to drag and drop photos into a book template (which is uploaded to, and printed by, Blurb at the end of each year). I import my photos each day that I happen to take any and add the best ones to my book template. I'd say about 10% of the photos I take end up in the book that I print. I also have a google hub in my kitchen that functions as a digital picture frame (you just have to upload photos to google photos). My kids love looking through the books and do so pretty frequently!

[Anonymous]

Is anyone using Amazon Prime for storing photos? I just learned about it and have put all of my phone pictures there, but haven't gotten into creating albums or anything.

Otherwise I use Costco's photo storage. I print most of the pictures I have of my kids and put in albums, I'm that old school, but they are taking up a lot of room!