Its been half of 2013 already......time just flies.....seems like just a few days ago we were waiting for the clock to strike 12:00
Most of us have taken our vacation to our dream location during the summer.
We've clicked hundreds of photos to get that perfect picture of the sunset or our child's naughtiest grin.
We all love to capture the best moments on our latest digital camera. What we forget to do is backup our photos. Only after losing them to a crashed computer do we realise the importance. I lost some precious pics of our two year stay in the US to a broken hard drive.... Some of the pics were not copied onto a DVD, and we lost them.
None of us want that to happen. So I make it a point to take my back ups every quaterly. Here's how I do it.
1. Take all your pics in one place
2. Go through them and rotate, remove red eye and most important Delete the blurred, repetitive shots. You don't need these photos to take up space where you plan to store your photos.
3. Put them into folders with year as the name. In it place the folders event wise or person wise. These folders can directly go into your DVD, harddrive and cloud storage in the original format and Size.
A lot of people order photobooks online, these websites offer storage for your photos, but most of them keep it only for a period of time and delete them if you have not ordered a product for a long time. They may also alter the original format. Its important to beware of these and to not assume this to be your ultimate back up.
Take your backup in three places two sets of DVDs, an external harddrive and on cloud.
Get it done yourself or hire the services of a photo organiser who loves doing this.
Most of us have taken our vacation to our dream location during the summer.
We've clicked hundreds of photos to get that perfect picture of the sunset or our child's naughtiest grin.
We all love to capture the best moments on our latest digital camera. What we forget to do is backup our photos. Only after losing them to a crashed computer do we realise the importance. I lost some precious pics of our two year stay in the US to a broken hard drive.... Some of the pics were not copied onto a DVD, and we lost them.
None of us want that to happen. So I make it a point to take my back ups every quaterly. Here's how I do it.
1. Take all your pics in one place
2. Go through them and rotate, remove red eye and most important Delete the blurred, repetitive shots. You don't need these photos to take up space where you plan to store your photos.
3. Put them into folders with year as the name. In it place the folders event wise or person wise. These folders can directly go into your DVD, harddrive and cloud storage in the original format and Size.
A lot of people order photobooks online, these websites offer storage for your photos, but most of them keep it only for a period of time and delete them if you have not ordered a product for a long time. They may also alter the original format. Its important to beware of these and to not assume this to be your ultimate back up.
Take your backup in three places two sets of DVDs, an external harddrive and on cloud.
Get it done yourself or hire the services of a photo organiser who loves doing this.

