Problems
1 I just took a photo. How do I share it?
2 I've lost yesterday's photo. Where is it?
Answers
The cause of your problem could be:
Too many photos. Your laptop or phone has reached its limit.
Photos on Phones
What you can do:
To make space
1 Delete your unwanted out of focus photos and pictures of your feet or thumbs. Easier to get rid of them now than have them cluttering up the place.
I have found that if I delete photos in the phone before loading up to the laptop, that saves time and space. Otherwise, I have to delete in both places, despite being asked if I want to delete on all devices, it just doesn't happen.
Having the originals stored for a month is handy if you delete by mistake or change your mind. But I keep deleting. Then next time when the laptop asks if I want to import all, all the deleted photos and duplicates are added and my laptop is overloaded.
I ignore warning. Sometimes eventually the photos storage is so full that it crashes. Then I can't delete photos to rectify the problem.
Backups
Before doing any major overhall of the photo system orgniaation, you should backup the lot of your photos library. That could mean backing up it overnight because it takes a long time. You don't want to interrupt it.
2 Learn how to use the two-storage systems on your phone. You should have a main disc. You may have bought supplementary storage at the start in the shop, or ordered it online later. When one system is full, you can switch to the other.
Find out how to do it, make the switch. When you are in the shop and buying it, ask.
Make a note of the intructions. Or find the instructions online and email them to yourself.
To Share Photos
Find the share a photo symbol under the photo on a phone or at the top of yourscreen on an ipad or laptop. It is usually an upward arrow. Select mail. You can share with another phone.
Alternatively, either email direct to the person whose photo you have taken if they are standing beside you. Or email it to yourself and then email it to them.
If you cannot connect your phone to your laptop via icloud, mail the photo to yourself and then drag it or save it to your iphoto or other photo storage system.
Lost Photo?
I hunted all over my photos and date hunts. Then I simply went into finder and found my missing photo.
Labelling and Saving
When I upload a photo, whether from my phone or the internet, I immedately label it with as many words as I can think of which I might use later in a search. For example, casa mia restaurant. I don't just label it Casa Mia, which is already labelled in the phto because I photographed the restaurant frontage. I lable it, casa Mia, Italian, restaurant, Hatch End, Pinner, London, England.
I might have several photos of the restaurant. To save time finding the right one, I add another description or two or three, such as: wine bottle, glass of wine, dessert, manager, outside, inside, menu, decor. The date could also be useful.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
1 I just took a photo. How do I share it?
2 I've lost yesterday's photo. Where is it?
Answers
The cause of your problem could be:
Too many photos. Your laptop or phone has reached its limit.
Photos on Phones
What you can do:
To make space
1 Delete your unwanted out of focus photos and pictures of your feet or thumbs. Easier to get rid of them now than have them cluttering up the place.
I have found that if I delete photos in the phone before loading up to the laptop, that saves time and space. Otherwise, I have to delete in both places, despite being asked if I want to delete on all devices, it just doesn't happen.
Having the originals stored for a month is handy if you delete by mistake or change your mind. But I keep deleting. Then next time when the laptop asks if I want to import all, all the deleted photos and duplicates are added and my laptop is overloaded.
I ignore warning. Sometimes eventually the photos storage is so full that it crashes. Then I can't delete photos to rectify the problem.
Backups
Before doing any major overhall of the photo system orgniaation, you should backup the lot of your photos library. That could mean backing up it overnight because it takes a long time. You don't want to interrupt it.
2 Learn how to use the two-storage systems on your phone. You should have a main disc. You may have bought supplementary storage at the start in the shop, or ordered it online later. When one system is full, you can switch to the other.
Find out how to do it, make the switch. When you are in the shop and buying it, ask.
Make a note of the intructions. Or find the instructions online and email them to yourself.
To Share Photos
Find the share a photo symbol under the photo on a phone or at the top of yourscreen on an ipad or laptop. It is usually an upward arrow. Select mail. You can share with another phone.
Alternatively, either email direct to the person whose photo you have taken if they are standing beside you. Or email it to yourself and then email it to them.
If you cannot connect your phone to your laptop via icloud, mail the photo to yourself and then drag it or save it to your iphoto or other photo storage system.
Lost Photo?
I hunted all over my photos and date hunts. Then I simply went into finder and found my missing photo.
Labelling and Saving
When I upload a photo, whether from my phone or the internet, I immedately label it with as many words as I can think of which I might use later in a search. For example, casa mia restaurant. I don't just label it Casa Mia, which is already labelled in the phto because I photographed the restaurant frontage. I lable it, casa Mia, Italian, restaurant, Hatch End, Pinner, London, England.
I might have several photos of the restaurant. To save time finding the right one, I add another description or two or three, such as: wine bottle, glass of wine, dessert, manager, outside, inside, menu, decor. The date could also be useful.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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