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Declutter Your Photo Life

Curating, Preserving, Organizing, and Sharing Your Photos
By Adam Pratt
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Declutter Your Photo Life by Adam Pratt is a practical guide to transforming your scattered photo collection into an organised, accessible, and shareable treasure trove. Whether you are a professional photographer, casual snapper, or family historian, this book offers a clear, step-by-step workflow—Gather, Preserve, Organize, Share, Maintain—to help you gain control over digital and physical photos alike. With expert advice on using tools like Adobe Lightroom Classic, scanning techniques, and archiving methods, you’ll create a calming order out of chaotic memories, ensuring your photos can be enjoyed today and preserved for generations.
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Turn your photo chaos into precious memories to be enjoyed and shared!

Now more than ever, we hold our photo collections dear. They are often some of our most prized possessions. Wouldn't it be great to finally have all your photos organized, safe, accessible, findable, and shareable? With Declutter Your Photo Life by your side, you have just what you need to achieve photo bliss.

Photographers and family historians understand the immense power that photographs have to convey meaning, emotion, and memory. We cherish both old film photos that were handed down by previous generations and our latest digital photos captured on the newest smartphone. But when those priceless memories are unorganized and scattered every which way—on a smartphone, on a laptop, on memory cards and flash drives, on two or three photo-sharing websites, in photo albums, and in shoeboxes in the attic—the joy of photography becomes an overwhelming burden. What a mess!

Whether you're a professional photographer, a casual shooter, or the designated family historian, Declutter Your Photo Life will help you organize and enjoy your photos once again. In this book, professional photo organizer, photographer, and author Adam Pratt teaches you his straightforward step-by-step workflow that, along with powerful image-organizing software such as Adobe Lightroom Classic, will have you taking complete control and creating a calming order out of your photo chaos. And once you've mastered Adam's system—Gather, Preserve, Organize, Share, Maintain—you'll be able to enjoy and share your photos today and for generations to come.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Chapter 1: Overwhelmed by Photos
  • Chapter 2: Workflow Overview
  • Chapter 3: Software and Hardware

PHASE 1: GATHER

  • Chapter 4: Gathering Digital Photos
  • Chapter 5: Deduplicating Photos
  • Chapter 6: Creating Your Photo Archive
  • Chapter 7: Gathering Physical Photos

PHASE 2: PRESERVE

  • Chapter 8: Preserving Photos
  • Chapter 9: Converting Digital Formats
  • Chapter 10: Scanning Physical Photos

PHASE 3: ORGANIZE

  • Chapter 11: Curating Photos
  • Chapter 12: Organizing Photos
  • Chapter 13: Dating Photos

PHASE 4: SHARE

  • Chapter 14: Sharing Photos
  • Chapter 15: Accessing Your Photo Archive

PHASE 5: MAINTAIN

  • Chapter 16: Maintaining Your Photo Archive
  • Resources
  • Index

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681988757

Publisher: Rocky Nook

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Rocky Nook

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 264

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About the Author

Adam Pratt loves people, photography, and a good story! He spent the last 25 years at the intersection of creativity and technology, including 22 years at Adobe, where he worked on the Creative Cloud team. He's a professional photo organizer, software trainer, and photographer. He's also the founder of Chaos to Memories, where he helps people enjoy their photos again by turning their photo chaos into precious memories they can enjoy and share.

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