Today we are going to give you 10 places to store your digital files. Now that close to everyone has access to phones with camera we find ourselves capturing images often. If your phone is anything like mine sooner or later you are getting the notification that you are out of storage. Geez, Like where am I going to store all these files that I do not want to totally delete, I want to still have access to.
Well today we are going to give you a few tips on where to store your digital images.
Here are a few general ideas:
Two options:
Physical
Cloud Base
Physical
Hard Drive on your computer
External Drive
Thumb Drive
Mobile Phone
CD- rom (yes I have clients that use them)
Make sure to have images in several places in case of loss theft fire
The other option
Cloud Base
There are many options to store digital images and before I give you the company listing I’ll give a few easy breezy inexpensive ways.
Save a copy in your email.
By Emailing the File to yourself
Upload images to photo retailers
Shutterfly Walgreens Sam’s Club Photos
They keep your images in there systems for years
Google Drive – this is a free service if you have a google / Gmail account gives you up to 15GB of storage space
Next are companies that specialize in digital image storage
DropBox – 2GB Free
Amazon Photos
Google Photos
Photo Bucket
Apple I cloud – up to 5 GB Free
BackBlaze
I drive
Flickr
Microsoft one drive
Nikon Image Space
Sony Play Memories
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