What do you do with your photos?
coasterqueen wrote: I'm really trying to figure out what the world to do with my photos. Before Kylie was born we didn't have a whole lot so I either did scrapbooks or put them in photo albums. After Kylie was born, obviously photos galore! Up until we got our digital I would have them developed so obviously I had to do something with them so I put them in albums. Then we got a digital in December 2003 and I've printed out all digital pictures up until last summer when it just seemed to be too much! So then I decided to scrapbook and did a few pages until I really realized how much money it takes to do such projects and time I don't have.
Right after I got put on modified bedrest DH bought me scrapbooking software because he thought I would enjoy working with that instead of regular scrapbooking. I finally opened the program up the other night and worked with it and I actually like it. I made a few pages and printed them out. I almost want to just go to this.
Of course the perfectionist in me is saying "won't you be a horrible mommy if you don't have photo albums or regular scrapbooks and cheat by doing computer generated scrapbooks?"
So I guess my question is what do the rest of you do? I just honestly can't see myself spending all that money on printing out a ton of pics to put in albums OR all the necessities to do regular scrapbooks when we have enough debt as it is and will have to children to clothe, feed, and put through college.
MomToMany replied: I wish I had some advice for you Karen. All of ours are sitting in a huge box, waiting to be sorted through. Plus, all of our digital ones are on the computer. They would just wind up in another box. I have no time to (or any real interest) to scrapbook.
mammag replied: I've just started scrapbooking. I have to make up for 4 kids so I'm just hoping to have it done by the time the move out. I can't afford to go all out and do it all at once so I'm just doing a little at a time. The digitals I may do some using the computer and only print the few I want to add to actual scrapbooks.
Kaitlin'smom replied: well before kaitlin most are in a box...but we got a digital and alot are still on the computer, backed up and burnt to disk. I have done slide shows for her birthdays picking out the favorites from the prior year and I plan on doing that each year for her. I dont have the time or the real interest in scrapbooking. I would love to get my pictures in albums tho.
So no you wont be a bad mommy if you use the computer to do your scrapbooking, look at it this way at least your doing something wth the pictures.
jdkjd replied: On Ofoto.com and shutterfly.com you can upload pics into an "album" and order a photo album that they print out for you. You can also add captions.
I've been reading about how pictures that are printed out at home aren't going to last as long as professionall printed pictures. So every couple months I've been uploading my favorites and getting prints from Ofoto. The cool thing is that I can get copies of the same order and send them to relatives.
It seems the relatives always want hard-copies...
akbutterfly83 replied: I scrapbook..... yes it take time, and costs a lot, so i just do bits @ a time..... & sometimes i order stuff online.... cause they always have clearence sales.... and you get more for you money..... I'll try find some links and post them for all of you that are intrested.....
booey2 replied: Hi I wanted to try scrapbooking but I really don't have the time. Before we got our digital camera I always developed them right away and put them in albums. Now that we have the digital I want to start burning CD's or DVD's and start kind of using them as albums. DH wants to do it but he will take forever so I want to.
I don't think that if you do it electronically that it makes you less of a mommy, just an computer-age-mom.
kit_kats_mom replied: I put mine on my website with my journal...which, if truth be told, could be more creative, but whatever!
ediep replied: I only print out my faves to use in my scrapbook. I don't print all of the photos we take. I do have a little tiny album in my purse that I print out some for.
coasterqueen replied: Thanks everyone. I would just only print out what I want to put in a scrapbook, but the scrapbooking tools themselves are outrageous in price. I only have a cutter, round edger, and I think that's it and that was expensive. After going to one scrapbooking class and realizing what all they have and what you can use to make neat scrapbook pages it's just TOO EXPENSIVE! LOL.
I think I'll do one scrapbook on the computer and see what I think. Thanks.
DansMom replied: Thank god I'm not the only one whose pictures are all either (a) in a big box loose or ( in the computer or © still in the camera. Making albums is a project I really want to get to. But I'm lucky to get dinner on the table and Daniel bathed and get my quality time with him after work. Weekends are for grocery shopping and house cleaning. On vacations, I crash from all the running around and working full time, and just can't summon the energy for projects
I don't want to scrapbook---I'm not that unrealistic about myself, having never been crafty. I just want to put the photos in albums!
It's hilarious how items ( b ) and ( c ) ended up being icons in my reply above! You have to put spaces around the letters to keep that from happening.
coasterqueen replied: OMG Tracy, you just described me when it comes to time to do things, lol.
DansMom replied: I found this out the hard way---pictures I printed at home that were exposed to sunlight faded over the course of a year. I burn them onto a disk periodically and take them to a professional photo place nearby for prints. DH doesn't use the computer at all (he's phobic and old-fashioned), so I need to make prints for albums so he can enjoy them too.
DansMom replied: Karen, it's because we work full time... there just isn't enough fuel or time for working mommies to get projects done. Did you see that episode of ER where the working mom to three kids was taking crystal meth to stay chipper? It was almost funny, although troubling too. I could almost relate to the need for amphetamines (I stick to just coffee though).
coasterqueen replied: I did not see that episode but I can almost see the need for a "pick-me up". LOL. By the time I get home I'm so literally exhausted I don't even have it in me to play with Kylie and I feel so awful about it. I just keep pushing through the day/evening telling myself 8:30 will roll around and I can finally put my feet up and relax. Yeah right that's when a billion other things like picking up the house, etc has to get done. As it is if I watch any tv at night it's while I'm moving around from room to room. It's pathetic. Our weekends are mapped out to utilize our time as best as we can. My lunch hours are the same....full of errands so I can get home to Kylie.
Why did women have to have a big movement and want to be in the workplace?
Kila replied: I've been thinking the same thing lately. I definitely want to do somehting with the pics but I just don't have the time or $ to do the regular scapbooking. My main concern is that they aren't going to look good enough. Kind of cheezy, ya know? I haven't decided. We got a color printer for Christmas and still haven't worked all of the kinks out yet. I t prints b/w just fine but when we stry to do color it just doesn't come out right.
iluvmysweetiepies replied: Kila- one thing i've learned with printing photos is that you have to regularly use it or the color isn't right. if you print a couple sheets it should be back to normal. you are talking about photo paper right?
iluvmysweetiepies replied: Well we have a photo album for each of the kids and a couple for family or random pictures. Before we got the digital we had to print all the pics so just the best went into an album and the rest into a dated filing box. Now we have the digital so most are on the computer, but every once in awhile I try to get the best printed to put in an album. I did do one scrapbook for each of the kids with their 1st year pictures, but it took forever and was really expensive, like $70 an album! I'm sure it can be much more expensive though. I just got this scrapbooking software though so I think I'll buy an album with the covered pages and insert the sheets. With the software it'll look a lot more creative and be so much easier. It can be fun, but I'd rather spend time with the kids then scrapbook, but that's just me.
loveydad replied: I'm so uncreative at these things. My son and I made collages of each of the kids to put in his locker at school, but other than that.
My pictures are divided into folders on my computer so I can use them when I need them, wehenver someone sends em I sort through them and put them in the folders.
The other photos I have, (i dont have a lot either, Henry's mother took almost all my photos with her and wont' let me have copies at least of Henry and Matt) are sitting in a couple of photo boxes waiting for me to put tehm in albums.
Kila replied: Well it hasn't printed good quality color print yet. DH has printed out about 15 pages and the color just looks bad. It's kind of disappointing. I was so excited to get the printer and now we can't get it to work right. We have Kodak Premium Photo Paper but I think we'll see if another brand/type of paper might help.
ian'smommy replied: Are you using a regular color cartridge in the printer, or are you using a photo color cartiridge. The difference is outstanding. And then of course, the paper makes a difference too. I've started to take my digital camera to the store, put my card in teh amchine and print out the pictures I want from there... I printed out 2 4x6's the other day on a kiosk at the store and it only cost me 76 cents with tax. I can't remember the last time I printed out my own pictures. I gave up... Cartridges are too expensive..
sunrosejenn replied: I got into scrapbooking back in 2000. I love it but it is time consuming and can be expensive especially since I got into Creative Memories. I've got a baby album for Eliana and I will complete that by hand. After that I will probably do digital once I find the right software. Any software suggestions?? I've got Scrapbook Factory and HP Creative Scrapbooking and can't really do what I want with it.
CantWait replied: I just get them developed and put them in a photo album. I would also love to scrapbook, but like you said, the time and money involved is way to much and I don't have it.
I keep all my photos on the computer also, but didn't know that you could get scrapbooking software. Is this easy to use. That would be a great gift to put together for family with a computer as well as your own keepsake.
holley79 replied: I saw a scrapbooking program at Office Depot that I was thinking about. It was pretty easy to use?
All of our digital pictures have been stored to CD and labeled in a CD holder. After Annika is born then I will just print certain pictures for her scrapbook. Other then that they will go on CD labeled. All my 35s that I take are in memory boxes.
fashionmumofboys replied: Some of mine are in photo albums and the rest are in a box that need to be sorted and put into order.
I usually just leave mine on the computer and copy them onto a CD.
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