I was slogging through the pictures, three months per day, and I was finding it time-consuming and unpleasant, like always. It was satisfying, though, to be pushing through the backlog. I love having made photo albums; it's just the making of photo albums that I dislike.
On Saturday I noticed that Snapfish had an enticing coupon code: 65% off for photo books purchased by January 8. "Hm," I said to myself, "how much headway could I make by tomorrow if I really made an effort?"
A lot, it turns out. I just clicked purchase on a photo book that runs from September 2020 through the end of July 2022. There are three helpful things I want to remember:
- Pete did a couple of two-page spreads with just a little input from me. I asked him to help with pictures from his 2021 Scout trip to Philmont, and he wound up being so independent that I asked him to do his 2022 trip to Germany too. It felt great to be able to delegate. I don't have to do it all myself these days.
- The kids kept asking to see my progress, and laughing and reminiscing while they looked at the in-progress version of the book. This was much more motivating than solo late-night slog sessions.
- I have figured out a method that works better than my old approach: if I keep uploading small batches of pictures, I don't have to scroll through a ton of images with tiny sidebar thumbnails. I use Photos to look at my pictures and decide which ones to upload, and copy them into a folder called "for upload," which I empty after each batch makes it into a Snapfish album. This gives me something like 5-10 pictures to pull from; I use them to make a couple of pages and then repeat the process. Back when we had slower internet, I used to do all my uploading at once because it took a while. But these days it is quick and painless, and the result is that I'm not wading through 80 itsy teeny thumbnails in the Snapfish interface to find one particular shot.
PHEW, I am relieved to have that item crossed off my list of nagging tasks.
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