Course: Gathering Digital Photos and Videos

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 Information

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

Here’s feedback from a student:

“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

Our full list of courses includes:

• Gathering Digital Photos and Videos
• Organizing Photos with Lightroom Classic
• The Practical Guide to Camera Scanning
• Managing Photo Organizing Projects
• Estimating Photo Organizing Projects
• Easy Index Scanning Workflow
• Fixing Dates of Digital Photos and Videos
• Digital Format Foundations
• Metadata Foundations
• Organizing Photos with Adobe Bridge
• The Practical Guide to Hard Drives
• Metadata for Clients
• Seven Steps to Creative Problem Solving

…with more coming soon! We do also offer 20% off if you purchase the Complete Collection.

Interested in working with Chaos to Memories?

If you’re near Chicago and ready to get started, come visit our Wheaton Studio Monday – Friday, 10-5. Please bring your memories with you.

Contact us for more information, shipping instructions, and to get started on your project.