jymbee
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Used to be that folks would put their memorable images in binders of some kind and take them out to view from time time, at family events for example. Or perhaps in a slide carousel always at the ready to bore friends and family with slides of your adventures.
But these days given everyone has a very capable camera in their smartphone, one can build up an inventory of thousands of digital images in short order. So now that you have these many thousands of images that you've taken over the years, what do you do with them? Any kind of digital organization? Print your favorites and create photo books? Online image galleries of some kind?
Personally I use Adobe Lightroom to store them all in "catalogs" in something of an orderly fashion but I'd have to say that easily 90% of them could be deleted with nothing of any significance being lost. And given we're the only ones that even know how to use Lightroom, when we're gone no future family member will be able to recover a shoebox of images from the back of a closet and relive family moments-- like we used to be able to do a generation ago.
But these days given everyone has a very capable camera in their smartphone, one can build up an inventory of thousands of digital images in short order. So now that you have these many thousands of images that you've taken over the years, what do you do with them? Any kind of digital organization? Print your favorites and create photo books? Online image galleries of some kind?
Personally I use Adobe Lightroom to store them all in "catalogs" in something of an orderly fashion but I'd have to say that easily 90% of them could be deleted with nothing of any significance being lost. And given we're the only ones that even know how to use Lightroom, when we're gone no future family member will be able to recover a shoebox of images from the back of a closet and relive family moments-- like we used to be able to do a generation ago.