Photo Organizing FAQ's
How much will my Photo Organizing Project cost? Photo organizing is a time-consuming service. We take great lengths to protect your images and have developed an efficient process for organizing digital and printed photos.
A few factors that determine the time and cost of a project:
How many images you have. The more images, the more time it takes to complete your project.
Where and How Your Images Are Stored
The number of sources you have digital images stored on (various devices and cloud services). Do you have prints stored in multiple closets and boxes around your home? For clients that are able to do so on their own, we recommend you consolidate your images into one place.
The consolidation process can be extremely time-consuming. You can reduce our hours by doing 2 things.
- Consolidating all of your printed images in area.
- We recommend purchasing a new hard drive and copying all of your photos from various devices and the cloud onto this hard drive.
For analog media, this means looking through your house and your family members’ houses for all of those important family photos and albums. We recommend purchasing clear plastic bins and putting everything you find inside of them.
How Organized You Already Are
If you already have your images scanned, or organized into folders, or tagged by person, then that will speed up our process.
Your Organizational Goals
Digital organizing is split into two phases:
1.) Consolidating and General Organization: This includes copying all digital image sources into one place. (Cloud services, photo cds, thumbdrives, external drives, services such as shutterfly, walgreens and old devices just to name a few.) This phase also includes organizing info folders by year and month, removing exact duplicates and removing screenshots. This type of organization creates the foundation for how you will sort all of your future photos.
2.) Detailed Organization: This is where we tag by person, and/or location, choose best images, assigning categories to your photos, adding keywords, and more. This type of organization allows you to easily and quickly search your photo library.
For analog (prints, albums, heirlooms, VHS, miniDVs, etc.) organizing, it is important to ask yourself the following questions:
1.) Do you want everything scanned, or only images of people or important memories?
2.) Do you want your media physically organized in order by date? This tends to take time and requires input from you to ensure we have the proper dates.
3.) Do you want details added to the file names of your scans, like people’s names, places, events? We recommend this as it allows your images to be searchable.
4.) Do you want your digitized prints added to a digital photo library?
5.) Do you want archival labels placed on your media?
Do you have digital images, analog media (Prints, Albums, Artwork, VHS, etc.), or both?
Each type of organizing service requires a separate set of skills and tools to complete. The format of your media will dictate how your project is done and how much time it takes to complete.
How can I make my job less expensive?
Culling your images before you send them to us will help reduce time and cost.
*Please note that every project and scope of work is different and can only be priced after we collect, sort and create a project plan estimate.