After nine months of planning the week finally arrived to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. All 12 of us arrived in Sunriver, Oregon on Saturday and we celebrated their anniversary on Sunday. The dinner, slideshow, and presents were all a hit and a complete surprise to my parents. Additional fun was had playing pickle-ball, tennis, hiking, swimming, bike riding, family dinners and playing games.
Amid all this fun there were photos taken on two point and shoots and six different smart phones. If you find yourself in the same situation here are a couple steps to help with managing your photos after a special event:
- Set up a Dropbox account. Dropbox is a file/photo/music/document sharing tool. Here is a good tutorial that talks about file sharing. As a new user Dropbox gives you 2GB of free space.
- Invite all the members of your party to use Dropbox. Dropbox supports dual platform which means Windows & Mac users alike can use it.
- Create a folder in Dropbox specifically for your occasion and share it with your group.
- Have everyone upload their photos to the Dropbox folder
There are a couple things to keep in mind during this process. The first is file size. If you want to use Dropbox as a free service you need to consider how many photos have been taken and the size of the file. The bigger the file size the faster you will reach your 2GB of free space, so make sure people are uploading the best photos (not all of their photos). The other thing to consider is how you will manage the photos once they are all in Dropbox. I will share ideas on that process next week. At this point you have all your photos in one place, everyone can see them, and they are saved in a secure place.
With three days still left on this week long celebration I am off to enjoy some family fun on the tennis courts!
rita norton
I am the momma to two children and was an Oregonian for the past 25+ years. A job transfer for my husband (in the summer of 2016) resulted in a cross country move and now I am a Massachusettsan. I confess, I had to look up the demonym! The birth of my son 20+ years ago was also the start of my entrepreneurial adventure. Photos have always been at the core of my businesses and continue to inspire and drive my passion to create beautiful keepsake photo collections for my clients.
I love dropbox too – its been a big help for sharing photos and for backing up! I even back up my blog to dropbox!!
Thanks for your comment – dropbox is great for all of our data backup.
Dropbox is the best. Are they still doing the thing where if you get someone to sign up, you get an extra 500 MB of storage space? I’ve shared photos with family, and their bonuses gave us the extra storage space needed to fit all the family photos.
Kathy – yes, they still award 500MB of storage for each accepted invite – and that is exactly what I have done too…that way I have enough space to host all the photos.