For years, our industry has celebrated September as Save Your Photos Month, dedicated to photo preservation and management. Throughout the month, professionals host free events covering various topics to help you protect and organise your photos. This year, The Photo Managers are thrilled to offer exciting YouTube LIVE events twice a week, along wi…

Today we are going to talk about identifying, converting and managing videos and home movies. Videos are of course part of our collection, and we feel is very important for us to do an episode just on videos – so we brought in and expert to explore this topic with us: Adam Pratt from Chaos to Memories. Regular listeners might remember Adam from pre…

We’ve all been there! We finally want to tackle that photo organising project, we’re off to a good start and motivated and then we encounter the first roadblock which stops us in our tracks. Next thing we know: we are procrastinating and the project comes to a halt. Here are some of the most common roadblocks we have encoutered: Not knowing where t…

Also published on our YouTube channel. We are honoured to have another wonderful guest with us: Nancy Rose from the Compass Rose Legacy Foundation. Nancy is a Legacy Doula and the Executive Director of Compass Rose Legacy Foundation. Her lens captures the profound beauty of human stories and the moments that define our legacies. Join us to find out…

This episode has to do with our Golden Rule 5 - Do something! What we mean is find means to bring your photos back into your life so you can enjoy them. One beautiful way of doing so is creating a photo wall or a photo gallery in your home. We are excited to have our colleague and expert Haleh Shoa from Picturli back for this episode! She not only …

Are you expecting a baby? Then this episode is totally for you! Even if you have already welcomed your baby recently, we encourage to join us, we’re sure there is a tip or two for everyone with children. When a new baby comes into our life, many things change and sometimes routines and habits simply fly out the window and life can get a bit chaotic…

Are you good at procrastinating about your photos? Well, you are not alone! Since Chantal is planning to run mini-classes / workshops soon she recently conducted a survey to find out what readers and listeners are interested in most. The clear winner was ‘How to Stop Procrastinating about my Photos’. Interestingly, Fiona and Chantal have already cr…

We are excited and honoured to welcome David Vaskevitch from Mylio Photos today. Tune in to find out why he thinks of Mylio Photos not only as his second heart but also his second brain. He shares some of his personal stories that wonderfully show how a good photo management program can help us keep memories alive and also have fun with our photos.…

Before we start with the actual topic of this episode, Chantal would like to ask you for a favour. She is planning to offer short online classes in the future. She’d really appreciate if you could take a minute to fill in this survey for her so she can find out what you are most interested in. Now on to our today’s topic: Chantal just came back fro…

We are thrilled to have Caroline Guntur from The Swedish Organizer back as our special guest to talk about the approach author Margareta Magnusson describes in her book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning. Caroline has recently written a blog post that drew our attention: Respectfully, This is the ONE Thing Swedish Death Cleaning Gets Complete…

The short answer is: No, it seems it is not outdated! Findings from a recent survey we conducted amongst our listeners showed that using a simple folder structure as opposed to a photo management program is not as out of fashion as we might have thought. Listen in to find out where people store their digital photos, how they structure their folders…

Meet Libby from Momento in Sydney and discover how this Australian photo book printing company came into existence - as the second one in the world at the time - and how they are serving their clients in Australia and New Zealand today. Momento is so much more than a printing company. The three founders, of which Libby is one, came from the world o…

We can’t believe we’re up to episode 100! It has been an amazing journey and we are so excited to keep going and more motivated than ever. This is also thanks to you, dear listener! Without you, what would be the point?! We’re passionate as ever sharing what we know about photo management with the wider community. Not only this, our podcast has als…

Many of us are sharing photos with others using different methods. Some put them on social media platforms, others in cloud storage services or some simply email or message photos. Today’s technology makes sharing easy and quick. However, how safe is it in terms of privacy? Join us and learn from Allison Freedman from Arrange Wander Focus how we ca…

We are both so grateful for the opportunity to bring you our podcast this month. Amy Revell has many notable achievements in the Professional Organising space including an Award Winning Podcast (The Art of Decluttering) with over 3.5 million downloads, appearances on numerous TV shows, articles in loads of magazines and newspapers, a successful boo…

As we are organising photos, we usually like to know what happened when. There is a whole range of information we can gather during that process that can help us to date or place photos. This applies to printed and digital photos. A great tool to help us gather that information that sometimes randomly comes up during the sorting is a timeline. Some…

If you are using an iPhone and a Mac, photo management can be really easy by using what you already have: your Apple Photos Library! We have invited expert Paul Einarsen to learn more about Apple Photos Libraries and the often mentioned Apple Ecosystem. Some topics we chat about: What is the Apple ecosystem? What do you need to use it? Sharing and …

When organising our photos, we inevitably encounter a packet of negatives. So, what do we do with them? Keep them? Separate them from the photos they are with? Throw them out and only keep the photos? Before we even suggest listening to this podcast episode we are here to suggest you…. Keep them…(please) In this episode, we talk about Your negative…

Join us and our today’s guest Hazel Thornton who gives us an insight about how you can research your own family’s stories - and find out more about the bathing beauty on the book cover of her latest book What’s a Photo Without the Story? How to Create Your Family Legacy! Discover why it is so important to tell the stories of our photos and how it c…

We both have been fortunate enough to travel earlier this year. Like everybody else, we both took lots of photos during that time. There are many different ways you can manage and also back up digital photos while travelling. However, today we are simply sharing what we both did. Some steps were the same, such as a daily purge in which we deleted t…

We are excited to share this episode with you. Adam Pratt, founder of Chaos to Memories, is one of our most popular guests on the DIY Photo Organising Podcast! Adam has just released a new book called 'Declutter Your Photo Life', written to help you turn your photo chaos into precious memories to be enjoyed and shared! This book is a remarkable res…

We have a little bit of a different podcast episode for you today. After our break, we got together to talk about our hopes for the podcast, our motivations and what we both value and believe to be helpful moving into the next 12 months. We then decided it would be something we could share with you, so we hit record! We invite you to listen to a fe…

One of the most asked questions when it comes to photo management is: how can I share my photos with others? As always, it depends on a lot of variables such as the photo management software and computer you are using. However, a great solution, which we have mentioned many times, is SmugMug - a cloud-based sharing software. Today, we talk with Kay…

Even though we have talked about printed photos in past episodes, a recent question from a listener prompted us to highlight our five most helpful and practical tips to remember when starting to sort printed photos. We know we live in a digital world these days, but that was not always the case. If you are ready to start sorting your printed photos…

Memories can be found in printed photos, slides, negatives, photo albums, photo scrapbooks, framed photos, artwork, certificates, and other memorabilia. Knowing how to safely archive these items will help keep them preserved for future generations.Kate Jacus is our very special guest on the podcast episode today. Kate has over 13 years of experienc…

Have you ever considered becoming a professional photo manager or organiser? Find out in this interview by Cathi Nelson from The Photo Managers how we became pros and podcasters!

We see the phone as a camera and we want to transfer new phone photos to a computer and our photo hub regularly. Not only to back them up, but to be able to curate them and our photo collection easily. Today, we are looking at how to transfer those photos from Android phones to a computer. We are sharing a variety of options with you, some require …

Decluttering and organising photos is hard. It can be a very overwhelming and time-consuming task and, naturally, photos belong to the very personal and sentimental belongings. Imagine how much harder it must be for a person who hoards. Unfortunately, there is quite a high part of our population with hoarding disorders, around 5%! However, there is…

We all have them in our collection: duplicate photos (and videos)! Learn what programs can help you find and remove those duplicate photos from your collection. We are talking about programs for Macs and Windows and there is also one that runs on both operating systems (no affiliation): •DupeGuru (cross-platform, works on Apple Mac and Windows PC) …

Following our call for your questions, a listener has asked "What am I supposed to do with the original hub in the end?" To answer that question, we are looking back at our Golden Rule 3 - Creating a Hub - to clarify the steps that we suggest you follow to start off your photo organising project. We are explaining in detail how to copy the gathered…

In a world of digital photos, photo books and posting to social media, is there a place today for printing photos and using traditional photo albums? Our guest on the podcast today, Vee Lawrey from Coral Coast Photo Life, would say a resounding YES! We invite you to listen in as we chat with Vee and learn some new and creative uses for traditional …

How wonderful to connect with you again - our first time this year! We are going to make a wild guess that perhaps you took a photo or two over Christmas and New Year! So did we! Chantal went on a holiday with her family to Tasmania (in Australia) and Fiona went on a holiday with her family to Phillip Island (in Victoria, Australia).We thought we w…

As we see one year out and another year in we would love to take this opportunity to thank you for your care and dedication to the precious memories of your loved ones through caring for your photos! Photos bring us all so much joy, and we also understand they can bring us mixed emotions too. As we step into a new year please know that we are cheer…

As the year is coming to an end, and a new one is beginning, it is a perfect time to reassess your plans, and actions, regarding your photos. We know this time of the year is filled with opportunities to add even more photo memories to your collection! So, in the episode, we thought we would get straight to it and record our 5 Essential Photo Manag…

So you have decided to take on the task of decluttering your home...Congratulations! We understand this can be a big job. We also know that photos are only one part of this process. In this episode we focus on helping you decide when you might choose to organise your photos, when you are decluttering your home. Organise photos first?Leave it to the…

Looking for a book to help you on your photo organising journey?...We have authors Cathi Nelson and Jordan Babeon as our guests on the podcast today, talking about their updated book, Photo Organizing Made Easy! Cathi and Jordan join us for an engaging conversation about how they worked together on the newest edition of the book, and how they are f…

Why bother preserving your photos? We understand it can be an involved, time intensive, often times emotional and potentially expensive project to take on organising and preserving a family photo collection. So...why bother? In this latest podcast episode we discuss a question raised by a listener. When considering the task of organising and preser…

Do you have any slides in your photo collection? Chances are either you, or your parents, or your grandparents do. These are some of the formats you might have seen; •120 •35mm •35mm Super •35mm half-frame •126 •127 •110 •Subminiature •Stereo Realist •View-Master Reel ....there are so many! The first slides came on the market in 1901, and there are…

What a treat! We have had the privilege of interviewing one of our gorgeous podcast listeners...and now we get to share our chat with you! We are thrilled to introduce you to Lisa Johnston. Lisa is passionate about many things, including family history, documenting significant events, and the passing on of stories and memories to keep them alive. S…

Today we address a sensitive topic when it comes to our photos. We are very aware that not all our photos, or memories, bring us joy and feelings of happiness. So what can you do if you know you have photos in among your collection that are difficult for you to look at, sort out, or deal with? Our episode this week is focussed on this question. We …

Have you heard of Save Your Photos Month? It is all FREE...and who doesn't love a good freebie?! Every year in September, photo organisers, companies, and photo retailers come together to raise awareness about the benefits of safeguarding your photos. Professional photo managers (like us wink wink) will be presenting over 40 mini-classes to teach y…

Do you know which photos you would choose to document your life...if you were asked to select only 100 photos? •Loved ones? •Childhood friendships? •Family pets? •Mentors, teachers? •Ancestry photos? •Houses, special places? •Hobbies? In this podcast episode we encourage you to think of the meaningful photos you have that connect you to past experi…

So, let's get serious for a moment. How long does it really take to scan your photos? Really. Start to finish, how long? In our previous episode we talked about realistic time frames for organising your photos...in this episode we have you covered if you are scanning your photos! The task of scanning your photos can be overwhelming, we get it; but,…

So, let's get serious for a moment. How long does it really take to organise your photos? Really. Start to finish, how long? In this episode we break it down for you, using our tried and true 5 Golden Rules. We walk you through each of the steps in organising your photos and, using our own experiences, provide you with some realistic time frames fo…

Have a listen to today's episode to hear about photo traditions and why we believe they are so important. We also give you lots of ideas to start your own photo traditions to document growth and change in your loved ones.By Fiona Staff and Chantal Imbach

You may have heard of Fiona's family pet before, their adorable Japanese Spitz, Pounder. He has been known to have his say in the background of one or two podcast episodes. Oh yes, the joys of family pets! Well, in this episode, all about photos of our precious pets, Pounder makes sure to have his say too! Pets play an enormous part in many people'…

We are so excited to share this with you! We are thrilled to introduce you to three industry experts in Photo Organising; Adam, Caroline and Casey. We understand that organising your photos can be an overwhelming project and sometimes we just need a little extra help to guide us through the steps. We sourced the best course creators for you! We tho…

If you needed to quickly find your favourite photo of you with a special loved one in your life, could you? If you needed to quickly find the most memorable photos from your last holiday, could you? If you needed to quickly find a photo of a cheeky child that is important to you, when they were young, could you? Needing to finding precious, memorab…

Did you know that Google are making some changes with their Google Photos service? Well, we are here to let you know that they are! The changes will come into effect as of June 1st, 2021. In our episode today we answer this question from an inquisitive listener, "What's happening with Google Photos?". In this episode we explore •How Google Photos w…

It is no secret that even a quick glance at just one photo and you can open the floodgates to hundreds of memories. We are also very mindful that organising years, and often multiple generations, of photos can inevitably open the floodgates to a whole range of emotions and feelings. In this episode we broach upon the sensitive topic of emotions. We…