Organizing Photos? Start Here to Learn the Basics!

Organizing Photos?

If you are new to photo organizing, it can be really difficult to know where to start! That’s why this page exists! Here, I put the all the must-read articles, must-watch videos, free courses and other fun resources to get you started on the right track towards organizational bliss! Enjoy!

New to Organizing Photos? Read this before you get started!

I’m a Perfect Pinnable!

Free Email Course: The Organizing Formula – Mastering the Fundamentals of Organizing!

Before you start organizing, it’s important that you understand the basics of the organizing process! To help you get a solid foundation, I have created a free email course that will explain some of the basics in just minutes a day. What I call “the organizing formula” is a proven set of step that lets your organize anything well. Organizing photos is really not than different from organizing shoes, you just have to understand the workflow! This course explains the exact step you need to take, and in what order, regardless of what you’re trying to organize.

Backup Basics

I want everyone to understand how to backup their photos (yes, even if they’re not organized!), so I’ve written a 5-part series on the topic, which will help you figure out all the moving parts. Click the links to read!

Other Popular Posts

Here are a few of my other popular blog posts:

Use the Resource Library for FREE Exclusive Content!

The resource library on this website is full of exclusive content created specifically for my email subscribers. You’ll find guides and checklists to make the first few steps of organizing so much easier.

I'm Caroline, a Certified Photo Organizer, and I'm here to help you sort your stashes of memories!

I live at the intersection of Family History and Digital Organization, so I teach people just like you how to organize and preserve their family stories and treasures, so that future generations can enjoy them too! You can read more about me here!

My company offers online courses, online workshops, and private coaching to help you get your ducks in a row! I invite you to book a Discovery Session to see how we can help you get organized!

Patricia P. Holler, Oregon
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

In desperation about the hodgepodge of digital photos that were scattered around unorganized in my life, in July 2020, I found info about Caroline Guntur’s DPO PRO class. I signed up and devoted the early Covid-19 lockdown months to working through the modules offered in the class. The class videos were very informative and enlightening. I gathered thousands of digital photos from many locations — old phones, old computers, CDs & DVDs, plus emails & text messages. I went through them all and discarded many duplicates. I formulated a naming convention for pictures, that I have now begun using for all my digital files. Along the way, I had many questions which I emailed to Caroline. Her patience is phenomenal, and her always-attentive care and prompt responses helped me immensely. I also learned so many useful things in this class that were not directly related to organizing photos. For example, I now have an automated system that backs up my entire computer daily, in addition to a cloud-based backup system that I already used. For me, the cost of the DPO PRO class was a hefty financial investment, but it has already been worth every penny. Caroline is a wonderful teacher, and I think of her as a friend, though we have never met.

Bryn M., Sweden
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Caroline helped me finally organize 20 years of images, in various formats, scattered across multiple locations and devices - a task I had been wanting to accomplish for years, but was completely overwhelmed about how to begin. I had three iPhoto libraries and didn’t know which one was the most current or had the most images, plus I had images saved in several Dropbox folders, a few thumb drives, my computer hard drive, two external hard drives, an iPad and two years of images on my iPhone. I also had images in an Aperture library, a program that doesn’t exist anymore so I didn’t know how to access them. I’m a reasonably “techie” person, but reading online articles about how to begin sorting through them always left me feeling overwhelmed. None of the step-by-step articles applied to me and my specific needs...Finally, I have ONE image library for all my images, all organized so I can quickly find any image I want, and with the peace of mind that all my images are constantly backed up and secure... I never would have been able to figure out how to do this alone. It is the best money I have spent in a long time!