Comments on: Review: Photo Freedom by Stacy Julian

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:05:59 +0000

First off: Why did I take so long to find you???? *sigh* I love your blog, was going to start one like it myself! hahaha!
Secondly: I too read this book looking for more. I too was quite disappointed as she really did not seem to take advantage of what digital has to offer. (I have not sent a picture to be printed since I bought a digital camera!) I do not see the point of printing pictures to file them in boxes afterwards, not when I can file them on my hard drive!
That said, I loved Stacy’s 4 catagories and have adapted my own version of them (added a fifth one). I have used this philosophy for the tagging of my pictures, and must say it’s working well for me right now.
Great post, great blog!

By: trish

trish — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:18:56 +0000

I have been a scrapper for many years and have both traditional and digi photos and trade off scrapping using both methods. I originally read a borrowed copy of this book and was thoroughly confused and felt very much like you do. However, the friend that let me borrow the book had recently taken Stacy’s class (Library of Memories) and I could actually SEE the system as she developed hers and the benefits she was experiencing (like being able to grab any photo she wanted.) I took the class this past winter and am SOLD on the system! I have since bought my own copy of the book and use it as I continue to tweak my system. Additionally, in the class Stacy does address digital storage and how to apply the system to your digi files and actually goes quite in depth about it. She ended up rewriting a portion of the class in order to pass this info on because so many class members had these same questions and challenges.
One last thing…oddly enough on Stacy’s blog today she shared about how messy her house is after a trip to Japan and included pix of laundry, things to unpack and the knife drawer she decided to sort through instead. *L* She really isn’t perfect and has shared about how the creative team comes in and cleans things up for scheduled photo shoots (such as the one where you can see her closet!) Just thought you might want to know! *S*

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:01:43 +0000

Good post Jennifer! I have an ongoing photo project of organizing pre-digital photos and negatives. Eventually I will be using scanmyphotos.com to scan thousands of them, and hopefully catagorize them in Lightroom.