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I am struggling about what to do with the extra photos I don't use in my scrapbooks, as well as the duplicate photos I don't use or give away. For some reason I have a hard time parting with them. I may need them one day....
I am interested in what the rest of you do with yours. Do you store them? If so, how? Do you trash them? I appreciate your ideas!
It's an absolutely gorgeous day in Houston, TX today!
I am fairly new at scrap booking s this may not be the best way, but I bought a nice photo box with file cards and store them there. I also store a copy of a CD with the pics and list the files on them. I use the same folder names on the paper file tabs as I do on my computer. Does that make sense?
I even keep out of focus photos because I have seen where people make mosaic border using the out of focus pics for a unique look. I am also learning to use PSE and have been able to sharpen some of my slightly out of focus prints to look much, much better.
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I have mine stored in a sterilte photo type box with a locking lid and handle - both my unused and extra "done" pictures are in there - seperated by categories - the only pictures not in there are my wedding ones - that book is done and I put all the extra pics in small photobooks - Having all the other pictures stored this way really helped me this past Christmas - I made 2 heritage 8X8 scrapbooks for my two brothers and all the pictures I needed were right in the box! It is a great box - I can just grab it on my way out to a crop and I have them all right there to be able to work on what I want!!
Hope that helps!
SUGGESTION: Even if they are just in a shoebox..... Or if you do digital, make a CD..... Give some kind of copies or duplicates to a friend to keep for you. One of my friends lost every photo of her kids when their house burned to the ground!
Oh yeah, I know... "That won't happen to me. Those things only happen to other people." Sure!
I choose the best pictures to scrapbook then throw the rest in the trash, I only keep the best so if that means to have three pages then I do I teach scrapbooking classes and alot of my people that come ask the same question but some are not real hip on the idea. They can't part with a one but the way I usually put it to them is if they didn't develop good you would trash them I would think. It is totally your preference.If you can part with them get rid of them.
I am struggling about what to do with the extra photos I don't use in my scrapbooks, as well as the duplicate photos I don't use or give away. For some reason I have a hard time parting with them. I may need them one day....
I am interested in what the rest of you do with yours. Do you store them? If so, how? Do you trash them? I appreciate your ideas!
It's an absolutely gorgeous day in Houston, TX today!
Don't throw them away! Well, let me clarify. When I used regular film, my husband and I would always go through the roll immediately and throw away the bad pictures. You know, the blurry ones, or where someone's head is cut off, or my hips look too big
That was all before I scrapbooked. We still do that, but there's still some pictures that don't make it to my album. And, since we always ordered duplicates, I had extras that I didn't give away. I save all these extras and keep them in a rubbermaid box, mostly in the photo processing sleeve (labeled of course with date and event).
You wouldn't believe how many times my daughter needed a picture for school (her senior year of highschool, you could order a half-page in the yearbook for a tribute -- we used my extras for that; the year she grad. college, her sorority friends held senior nights and made slideshows of pictures sent by family and friends). It sure makes it easier not to pull apart my books.
I try to put duplicate pictures into extra swap pages. Some I put in an album for my mother. Some I keep. Even though I have an only child he may have more than one child. If I have duplicates I will have enough for books for more than one grandchild someday.
If there are other people in the photos besides my kids (like their friends, classmates, etc.) I give the duplicates to that person's mom, or my kids' teacher if I don't know the children well (like at a class party or event)! I have close to a dozen envelopes with these duplicates in them that need to be given out right now (I worked on separating duplicates over the Christmas holidays!) I have an envelope or two full of my daughter's extra campfire photos that her whole group are going to take and make an album for the Campfire leader at the end of the school year, for example. I only save the duplicate photos that are really, really good for myself for the future. These I put in photo safe boxes with each of my children's names on it, or they go into our family box of photos. I just take too much photos to keep them all!
Most duplicates I give to family. But the ones which I don't use in my scrapbook and haven't given away I store them in a photo box. I occasionally go into the box to make demo pages or gifts for family or friends. Or I may even go into the box to make a scrapbook page for myself. I have 3 albums right now (one for each kid) but want to make an album for myself (my favorite photos of the year type book). I also have gone in that box to do swaps such as a circle journal which I belong to. It's great when I have duplicates. I use a digital camera so I print out only the good ones so I don't have that many duplicates but sometimes I get carried away as my photos are getting very good and I just have to order every shot that came out great. For years now I have done only one or two pages per project (day) except for vacations and maybe birthdays when I have a lot of photos and a lot to say.
This may sound funny, but... Put them in a photo box and keep them in a safe deposit box at the bank. This is also a great place to keep your negatives/CDs. This goes along with GarnetJ's idea to give them to a friend. I've heard too many horror stories of people losing their albums to fire, landslides in California, etc. If you don't have a copy somewhere else, you will lose your albums and all your extra photos so you won't be able to replace you precious photos.
What do you do with extra photos?
