This episode has to do with our Golden Rule 5 - Do something! What we mean is find means to bring your photos back into your life so you can enjoy them. One beautiful way of doing so is creating a photo wall or a photo gallery in your home. We are excited to have our colleague and expert Haleh Shoa from Picturli back for this episode!  She not only shares some practical tips but actually shows us how she designs a photo wall using Canva. Hence, we strongly encourage you to watch this...

Are you expecting a baby? Then this episode is totally for you! Even if you have already welcomed your baby recently, we encourage to join us, we’re sure there is a tip or two for everyone with children. When a new baby comes into our life, many things change and sometimes routines and habits simply fly out the window and life can get a bit chaotic. Before we know it, photo chaos has taken over and we are drowning in cute baby photos.  Listen in to hear some tips about how you can stay...

Are you good at procrastinating about your photos? Well, you are not alone! Since Chantal is planning to run mini-classes / workshops soon she recently conducted a survey to find out what readers and listeners are interested in most. The clear winner was ‘How to Stop Procrastinating about my Photos’. Interestingly, Fiona and Chantal have already created an e-guide (downloadable here) about that very topic. Since it seems to be such a popular topic, we are re-visiting some of its content...

We are excited and honoured to welcome David Vaskevitch from Mylio Photos today. Tune in to find out why he thinks of Mylio Photos not only as his second heart but also his second brain. He shares some of his personal stories that wonderfully show how a good photo management program can help us keep memories alive and also have fun with our photos. We learn about various features Mylio Photos offers, such as: importing photos, videos and documents from various sources  the event...

Before we start with the actual topic of this episode, Chantal would like to ask you for a favour. She is planning to offer short online classes in the future. She’d really appreciate if you could take a minute to fill in this survey for her so she can find out what you are most interested in. Now on to our today’s topic: Chantal just came back from Switzerland where she helped celebrate her mum’s 80th birthday. Of course, that involved some photo gifts.   Hence, today she can share...

We are thrilled to have Caroline Guntur from The Swedish Organizer back as our special guest to talk about the approach author Margareta Magnusson describes in her book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Caroline has recently written a blog post that drew our attention: Respectfully, This is the ONE Thing Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Completely Wrong. We could really relate to what she has written and wanted to hear and learn more about her take on The Swedish Death Cleaning...

The short answer is: No, it seems it is not outdated! Findings from a recent survey we conducted amongst our listeners showed that using a simple folder structure as opposed to a photo management program is not as out of fashion as we might have thought. Listen in to find out  where people store their digital photos, how they structure their folders of their photo collection and  which programs they use to manage them. We also respond to some comments and questions such as...

Meet Libby from Momento in Sydney and discover how this Australian photo book printing company came into existence - as the second one in the world at the time - and how they are serving their clients in Australia and New Zealand today. Momento is so much more than a printing company. The three founders, of which Libby is one, came from the world of digital media in the mid 1990s and met when working for a CD-ROM company.  They loved photography, travel and also family memories. Because...

We can’t believe we’re up to episode 100! It has been an amazing journey and we are so excited to keep going and more motivated than ever. This is also thanks to you, dear listener! Without you, what would be the point?! We’re passionate as ever sharing what we know about photo management with the wider community. Not only this, our podcast has also become a platform for colleagues and other experts whom we have invited to talk about topics that they know so well and that are relevant for...

Many of us are sharing photos with others using different methods. Some put them on social media platforms, others in cloud storage services or some simply email or message photos. Today’s technology makes sharing easy and quick. However, how safe is it in terms of privacy? Join us and learn from Allison Freedman from Arrange Wander Focus how we can share photos in the safest possible way. Find out from Allison why we can be our own worst enemy when we share photos and what strategies...

We are both so grateful for the opportunity to bring you our podcast this month. Amy Revell has many notable achievements in the Professional Organising space including an Award Winning Podcast (The Art of Decluttering) with over 3.5 million downloads, appearances on numerous TV shows, articles in loads of magazines and newspapers, a successful book titled ‘Simply Organised’, and… is an all-round-awesome-human!  Amy and her team at The Art of Declutter apply simple yet effective...

As we are organising photos, we usually like to know what happened when. There is a whole range of information we can gather during that process that can help us to date or place photos. This applies to printed and digital photos.  A great tool to help us gather that information that sometimes randomly comes up during the sorting is a timeline. Some options to record a timeline are: A simple note book Index cards  One sheet per year in a binder An Excel sheet A bubble...

If you are using an iPhone and a Mac, photo management can be really easy by using what you already have: your Apple Photos Library! We have invited expert Paul Einarsen to learn more about Apple Photos Libraries and the often mentioned Apple Ecosystem. Some topics we chat about: What is the Apple ecosystem? What do you need to use it? Sharing and synchronising your photos with the family - find out more about the new feature of a shared library and why it is important to have a...

When organising our photos, we inevitably encounter a packet of negatives. So, what do we do with them? Keep them? Separate them from the photos they are with? Throw them out and only keep the photos? Before we even suggest listening to this podcast episode we are here to suggest you…. Keep them…(please) In this episode, we talk about Your negatives Why we recommend keeping them Archiving options for your negatives The difference between scanning prints and negatives Links...

Join us and our today’s guest Hazel Thornton who gives us an insight about how you can research your own family’s stories - and find out more about the bathing beauty on the book cover of her latest book What’s a Photo Without the Story? How to Create Your Family Legacy! Discover why it is so important to tell the stories of our photos and how it can be beneficial not only to ourselves. The great thing is that you don’t have to write a book or a biography, you can start small and keep it...

We both have been fortunate enough to travel earlier this year. Like everybody else, we both took lots of photos during that time. There are many different ways you can manage and also back up digital photos while travelling. However, today we are simply sharing what we both did. Some steps were the same, such as a daily purge in which we deleted the duds and other unwanted photos we took. Others were a bit different because one used the phone only and the other also used a DSLR camera and...

We are excited to share this episode with you. Adam Pratt, founder of Chaos to Memories, is one of our most popular guests on the DIY Photo Organising Podcast! Adam has just released a new book called 'Declutter Your Photo Life', written to help you turn your photo chaos into precious memories to be enjoyed and shared! This book is a remarkable resource for anyone needing a straightforward step-by-step workflow to help them organise and enjoy their photos again! Interviewing Adam in this...

We have a little bit of a different podcast episode for you today. After our break, we got together to talk about our hopes for the podcast, our motivations and what we both value and believe to be helpful moving into the next 12 months. We then decided it would be something we could share with you, so we hit record! We invite you to listen to a few little changes we have coming. Also, if you have any photo-related questions we haven't answered yet in one of the previous episodes, please...

One of the most asked questions when it comes to photo management is: how can I share my photos with others?  As always, it depends on a lot of variables such as the photo management software and computer you are using. However, a great solution, which we have mentioned many times, is SmugMug - a cloud-based sharing software. Today, we talk with Kaydin Carlsen from SmugMug, who has been a passionate advocate for the photography industry for more than a decade and has been supporting and...

Even though we have talked about printed photos in past episodes, a recent question from a listener prompted us to highlight our five most helpful and practical tips to remember when starting to sort printed photos. We know we live in a digital world these days, but that was not always the case. If you are ready to start sorting your printed photos we encourage you to have a listen to this podcast episode as we share how we tackle sorting printed photos. Here is a sneak peek... •Sort by...

Memories can be found in printed photos, slides, negatives, photo albums, photo scrapbooks, framed photos, artwork, certificates, and other memorabilia. Knowing how to safely archive these items will help keep them preserved for future generations. Kate Jacus is our very special guest on the podcast episode today. Kate has over 13 years of experience archiving many precious items, including numerous collections at two Smithsonian museums. Today Kate brings us her practical tips and advice...

Have you ever considered becoming a professional photo manager or organiser? Find out in this interview by Cathi Nelson from The Photo Managers how we became pros and podcasters!

We see the phone as a camera and we want to transfer new phone photos to a computer and our photo hub regularly. Not only to back them up, but to be able to curate them and our photo collection easily. Today, we are looking at how to transfer those photos from Android phones to a computer. We are sharing a variety of options with you, some require just a USB cable, others an internet / wifi connection or the cloud. One would think that transferring phone photos is easy. It usually is, but...

Decluttering and organising photos is hard. It can be a very overwhelming and time-consuming task and, naturally, photos belong to the very personal and sentimental belongings. Imagine how much harder it must be for a person who hoards. Unfortunately, there is quite a high part of our population with hoarding disorders, around 5%! However, there is help and we have the pleasure to learn from today's podcast guests: Angela Esnouf and Wendy Hanes from Hoarding Home Solutions, who are...