Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find, and Share Your Photos

The first easy-to-remember, easy-to-repeat system for organizing digital photos so they'll be safe and easy to find for generations to come.

- Author, who created the digital photo archiving system for the Academy Awards, provides the one asset management book that's actually fun to read, easy to implement, and charmingly illustrated.
- Readers learn the seven important steps needed to keep photos organized, available, and safe.
- Each chapter ends with a slightly more advanced section for those who want to get more 'technical'

In 2008, retailers sold 40 million digital cameras in the U.S. and consumers made 19.7 billion prints from digital photos and--if you believe the conversations taking place on Flickr--shot between 5,000 and 50,000 digital photos. Most people are awash in digital photos (some taken, some received) stuffed here and there in random folders and albums across a hard drive. In The Digital Shoebox, Sarah Bay Williams, the woman who created the image archiving system used by the Academy Awards, shares her foolproof method for effectively organizing, finding, and sharing photos so readers never lose track of their most precious memories. Unlike many books on digital photography today that are driven by software, The Digital Shoebox teaches readers an easy-to-remember and easy-to-repeat system for that doesn't require learning lots of software or feels like homework. Part I of the book guides readers through the seven most important steps for organizing photos; Part II is packed with tips on ways to enjoy and share those photos. Each chapter ends with some slightly more advanced information, should readers want to get 'technical.' Based on the author's experience managing hundreds of thousands of photos as the communications photography coordinator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as someone who simply loves taking photos, The Digital Shoebox is the first concise and user-centered guide solely dedicated to organizing a personal digital photography collection.