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PSG Photo Solutions We help you get your lifetime of print and digital photos organized. Scan your prints, slides, negatives and heritage scrapbooks/photo albums.

https://psgphotosolutions.com As Certified Personal Photo Organizers we are here to help you use your photos to tell your story for friends and family to enjoy for generations to come. We are certified personal photo organizers and digital asset managers that can help you celebrate those big life events utilizing your photos in slideshows, posters, photo books and more. Restore damaged photos. Digitize your old film and video media. Set up backup systems so you won't lose your files when your computer or phone crash. Then help you tell your story and enjoy your photos with family, friends and future generations.

10/13/2026

“How do you eat an elephant?”

One bite at a time.

That old saying works surprisingly well for an overwhelming photo collection.
Instead of looking at every photo on your phone, computer, hard drives, and in all those boxes, choose one moment.

Maybe it’s last year’s birthday.

A family vacation.

Christmas morning.

Or yesterday’s pictures.

Gather just those photos together and label them clearly.

That’s enough for today.

You don’t need special software. You don’t need an entire free weekend. And you certainly don’t need to organize 20 years of photos before you can say you’ve made progress.

Managing your Photo Estate can begin with one small section you can actually finish.

Every family has a story of exploration.Maybe someone moved across an ocean.Maybe your parents left a small town for a n...
10/12/2026

Every family has a story of exploration.

Maybe someone moved across an ocean.

Maybe your parents left a small town for a new opportunity.

Maybe a career change, a marriage, an adoption, or one unexpected decision sent the family in an entirely new direction.

The photos often survive.

The story behind them doesn’t always.

That is why organizing a family’s Photo Estate is about more than putting pictures into folders. It is also about preserving enough context that the people who come after us can understand what they are looking at.

Today, as we recognize Columbus Day, take a look at an older family photograph and ask:

Where were they going?
What were they building?
What changed because of that moment?

Sometimes one photograph opens the door to an entire chapter of the family story.

10/09/2026

🎄 11 weeks until Christmas—and here's a gift that doesn't need batteries, an app, or another subscription.

Choose one meaningful photograph and frame it.

It could be a family portrait, a favorite vacation, grandparents with the grandchildren, or simply a moment you know someone loves.

Displayed photographs do something digital collections can't: they become part of everyday life.

I call those little moments, when we notice them, deposits into our “Love Bank.”
For children especially, seeing themselves pictured with the people who love them can reinforce a wonderful message: I belong here.

One practical tip: when framing a photo, use a mat or another archival method to keep the photograph from resting directly against the glass.

And next Christmas? Keep the frame and give them a new photograph. You've just created a tradition.

“My photos are all in the cloud.”That's a good start. But there's another question:Would anyone else in your family know...
10/08/2026

“My photos are all in the cloud.”

That's a good start. But there's another question:
Would anyone else in your family know where to find them?

Maybe thousands of family photographs are sitting in one cloud account that only you use. Perhaps you're the only person who knows the password—or even which service contains the collection.

And if that's the only copy, the cloud has become a single point of failure rather than part of a backup plan.

This is why managing family photos involves more than simply putting files somewhere safe.

You want the important collection protected and accessible to the right people.

Start with the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, two types of storage, one copy off-site.
Then think about access. Does someone you trust know where your collection lives?

These are also useful conversations to have alongside the financial, estate, and family planning you're already doing.

“Families who refine and retell a unifying narrative about their positive moments and resilience during difficult times,...
10/07/2026

“Families who refine and retell a unifying narrative about their positive moments and resilience during difficult times, produce children who consistently show more self-confidence.” — Bruce Feiler

I love that this isn't just about telling our children the happy stories.
We don't always live on the mountaintop.

I've seen with my own children how important it is for them to know not only our family stories, but stories about their grandparents and even their great-grandparents.

Some are stories of accomplishments. Others are about people facing difficult circumstances and finding their way through.

Those stories can say something important:

You come from people who have done hard things. You can do hard things, too.

Our photographs can help us tell both kinds of stories—the triumphs and the trials.

Find one family photograph this week connected to a difficult season.

What happened? What changed? What did someone learn?

That may be the part of the story worth writing down.

10/06/2026

The cloud is convenient. But should it be the only place your family photos live?

I wouldn't recommend it.

Cloud storage gives you some valuable advantages. You can access photos from different devices, your files aren't sitting on one physical drive that can fail, and you can add storage as your collection grows.

But cloud accounts have risks, too. Passwords can be compromised.

Services can change. Subscriptions can lapse. And sometimes you simply can't get to what you need when you need it.

That's why I recommend the 3-2-1 backup rule:
3 copies of your photos
2 different types of storage
1 copy somewhere off-site

The cloud can be that off-site copy. It just shouldn't be your only copy.

Try something simple today: pick one folder containing photos you wouldn't want to lose and figure out exactly where its copies live.

10/05/2026

Before you post that family photo, take 30 seconds and look at the background.

Is there a house number? Street sign? License plate? School logo?

That's something privacy advocate Tammy Copenhaver of 406 Digital Imaging Services LLC reminded me of when we talked at The Photo Managers conference in San Diego.

Tammy has created a 60+ page guide to practical personal privacy, including the information we may unknowingly share through our photographs.

And sometimes the information isn't even visible. Your phone may be attaching location data to the photo itself.

This isn't a reason to stop sharing photos. It's a reason to share them intentionally.

Try this today: Look at five photos you've recently posted. Don't look at the people first—look at everything around them. What could a stranger learn?

Managing your family's photo collection includes organizing and protecting it, but it also means thinking about privacy and how those photos are used.

10/02/2026

The best part of the photo book wasn't making it. It was watching my sons open it.

We had created a book from a family trip. As they flipped through the pages, they started telling stories about things that had happened—some of which they hadn't even told us during the trip!

That's one reason I love photo books.

They don't just give us something beautiful to look at. They give us a reason to sit together, point to a picture and say, “Do you remember when…?”

Christmas is now 12 weeks away, which makes this a good time to start if you've been thinking about creating one as a gift.

The printing is the easy part.

Finding the right photos, choosing what belongs, putting them into a story and designing the book takes time.

If you have the photos but aren't sure how to get started, let's identify your first step with a 15-minute Photo Estate Rescue Call.

10/01/2026

Would your children actually know where all your digital photos are?

Not just the ones on your current phone.

What about the old laptop? External drives? iCloud? Google Photos? Dropbox? Social media? An older phone tucked away in a drawer?

You may understand where everything is because you've built the collection over many years.

Your family hasn't.

That's why planning for your photos involves more than backing them up. Someone needs to know what exists, where to find it, what matters, and who should eventually take responsibility.

There can also be legal questions about access to digital accounts. That's a conversation for your estate-planning attorney. A Photo Estate specialist can work alongside that attorney to help address the collection itself.

You don't have to solve everything at once.

“In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” — John GreenThis p...
09/30/2026

“In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” — John Green

This picture is from The Photo Managers Conference a few years ago.
We're not in a workshop. We're heading out to lunch.

I go to the conference every year to learn, but just as important is spending time with colleagues I've gotten to know over the years.

Most of us only see one another in person once a year. The relationships continue through phone calls, emails and Zoom conversations throughout the rest of the year.

Looking at this picture, I don't really think about what conference session I attended that day.

I think about the people.

I suspect many of our family photos work the same way.

We photograph birthdays, vacations, holidays and ordinary days. But eventually, the event may become secondary.

The people become the story.

Next time you look through some older photos, try asking:
Who was I doing life with?

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