Gathering Digital Photos and Videos
Expert workflows for gathering digital memories
Digital photo organizing is our most popular service at Chaos to Memories, and gathering everything in one place is always the first step. But gathering digital photos is challenging because people have so many files in so many places. Our average client has over 250,000 digital photos and videos, so we've developed a workflow that's efficient and thorough.
You’ll learn how to:
- build your digital gathering toolkit
- choose and format the best hard drives for your project
- gather digital memories from Mac and Windows PC
- gather from drives, disks, dead computers, and damaged Macs
- gather from dozens of devices, apps, clouds, and web sites
- merge, back up, and deduplicate digital archives
Whether you're gathering your own digital memories or working with clients, you're going to learn all the digital gathering best practices we use at Chaos to Memories. This course represents 30 years of technical experience, four years of workflow testing, and hundreds of hours of development
Who's this course for?
- Photo Organizers/Managers
- Serious Amateur Photographers
- Professional Photographers
- Digital Archivists
Course Includes
- Ten hours of self-paced video training in 64 lesson
- Solutions for Mac and Windows computers
- Solutions for iOS and Android devices
- Solutions for in-person and remote gathering session
- Resource Guide full of links, lists, and reminder (PDF)
- Downloadable transcripts for every lesson to use as reference notes (PDF)
- Digital Gathering tool list (PDF)
- Digital Gathering Guide for Clients (PDF)
- Printable Workflow Guides (PDF)
- Digital Gathering Checklist (PDF)
- Visual Guide to Memory Formats poster (PDF)
- Visual Guide to Digital Storage poster (PDF)
- Visual Guide to Computer Cables poster (PDF)
- Access on computer, tablet, or smart phone
- Immediate access to all lessons with no expiration
Enjoy the the first three lessons for free and check out the course curriculum below.
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“I have taken a number of Adam's courses over the years. This course is by FAR going to be one of the best resources for anyone working on a digital organizing project. In his typical no-nonsense style, Adam walks through how to best approach gathering digital files from ALL of the places! Each place is covered in a separate lesson, making it quick to refer back to on an ongoing basis.
- Kathy Robinson, Owner of Organized Images
Your Instructor
Adam Pratt loves people, photography, and a good story! He’s spent the last 30 years at the intersection of creativity and technology, including 20+ years at Adobe where he worked on the Creative Cloud team. He has experience as a photographer, book author, software trainer, and photo organizer. He’s also the founder of Chaos to Memories where he helps people enjoy their photos again by turning their photo chaos into precious memories they can enjoy and share.
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Course Curriculum
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PreviewLesson 1.1: Introduction (5:30)
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PreviewLesson 1.2: Building Your Digital Gathering Toolkit (14:15)
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PreviewLesson 1.3: Getting the Most Out of This Course (3:16)
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StartLesson 1.4: Choosing Hard Drives for Digital Gathering (17:25)
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StartLesson 1.5: Preparing a Hard Drive Using a Mac (8:59)
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StartLesson 1.6: Preparing a Hard Drive Using Windows (11:45)
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StartModule 1 Transcript (PDF)