Digital Image Storage Options

I adore my digital images. Mostly they are of my son and husband, but there are also a lot of vacations, animals, and friends. Unfortunately, all of these images eat up the disk space on my laptop. I use my computer for work as well as fun, not just photography. This means I need all the room I can get. I usually go through my pictures and delete the ones I don’t absolutely love, just to get more room. Of course that fragments my hard drive, so then I have to go through and defrag every once in awhile too. Not much of a problem, but I still run out of room.

So where else can you put your digital images, other than on your computer or camera? Well I edit most of my images so they don’t stay on my camera card. I upload them to my computer and delete them off the camera. Then I edit and keep only the ones I love. The options from there are write them to a disc, upload them to a storage site, put them on an external hard drive, put them in a digital frame, or print them and put them in an album or traditional frame.

The only thing I’ve decided for sure is that I want to keep digital copies. What is your favorite way to store your images?

Photo Credit Bohman

June 18th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Large Files | (0)