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You probably made the transition over to a digital camera a long time ago, and most of your newer photographs are likely stored on your computer. Still, some people continue using analog cameras because they enjoy their output and the process. You may also have a number of older photographs that you need to keep sorted as well. So how can you organize your photographs?

Before you can figure out how to organize old photographs, you need to find them. Your first step is to look around the house and find all the loose photos you may have floating around. Photographs end up in drawers, wallets, and all kinds of random places. You may want to ask family members if they have any shots they would like to organize s well. Gather everything in one place.

The next step to organize family photographs is to purchase some plastic storage bins for photos. Why go with bins instead of photo albums? Simply put, it is one of the easiest ways to organize photos. You do not need to go to the trouble of sorting your shots into albums or scrapbooks, which can be very tedious and time-consuming.

Still, bins allow you to impose some organizational control over your photos, because you can label each of them. There are a lot of different methods you can use to come up with categories. For example:

• Organize by date, with a bin for each year or set of years.
• Organize based on different epochs of your life. You could have a bin for high school and college, one for your 20-somethings, another for your first marriage, etc.
• Organize by location, like “Photos from Texas,” “Photos from Virginia,” etc.
• Organize by person, so you have a bin for photos of your immediate family, one for photos with your extended family, another for your friends, and so on. If you have a ton of photos of any particular person, they can get their own bin.
• Organize according to the person who owns the photos (if you are setting this system up for everyone in your household to use).

Additional Tips:

• Label the backs of photos while you are archiving them, so that descendents and others will be able to identify their significance.
• Get rid of low-quality shots, unless you have a very particular reason to keep them.
• Don’t want to keep physical copies of some of your photos, but scared of losing them completely? Photograph them with a digital camera and store the data.
• Make sure you keep the bins with the photos in an environment which is cool, dark and dry. Photographs are highly susceptible to damage in muggy, hot or bright conditions. They can easily fade or become discolored.

Once you have a system worked out, stick with it with any future photographs you store. This is a great way to grow a photo collection and keep it organized without investing a ton of time and effort.