Photo Freedom Giveaway.

I struggle with getting them from the disk to the printer. I have a whole collection of photos, but have printed out only a handful in the last few years.

i hate to add to the task of going through what will inevitably be over 1000 comments, but here goes...i'd love the book...annie

1. Finding inspiration (books, magazines) that offer layouts with multiple photos.
2. Taking descent Christmas photos. There is too much "stuff" in the picture.
3. Time to photoshop my pictures that need it.
Amber

Just finding where to start... I feel so lost in it all.. I'm 2 years behind and I feel overwhelmed so I'm not doing anything.

My biggest photo struggle is finding the time to edit my pictures and then get them printed. Once they are printed I never know which ones I should scrap or just put in a regular album.

thanks for the giveaway post! for sharing this book with us!
my biggest struggle with photos is that I get overwhelmed by all the photos. I have boxes of print photos when I used a camera with film (at least 12 photo boxes full of snapshots).
Then there was a gap of four years - between having a film camera...and buying a digital camera.
Now I have folders on my computer just full of photos - including 11 blurry photos leading up to the one good photo I was trying to capture. I can't seem to delete anything.
to sum it up: organization. it's all too much so I don't know where to start.
signed,
Paralyzed by Indecision

My biggest photo trouble is shooting without flash!

My biggest photo issue is where are they and have I scrapped them yet? Between printed pictures (pre-digital days) digital pictures stored on CD (because my hard drive was full and I didn't want to lose them if it crashed) and digital pictures currently on my hard drive I struggle with keeping track of whats in an album and what isn't.

I need a system to help me organize my pictures, both digital and those already printed. I have been trying to do a non-chronological album highlighting my kids at different ages all on one page, documenting their favorite things at different ages, etc. but I have a hard time finding the photos I need for each page. I know I have them . . . somewhere!

Two big struggles for me - losing pictures (actual prints, not computer files) and not being able to part with photos that are of a poor quality.
Thanks, Ali!!!

biggest struggle -
blurry photos...
shoot in AV mode and am always messing with iso and then my 4 year old and 9 week old puppy don't help because of the movement.
Hope I win -
nikki

Would love to have a copy of this book, I was just looking at it this morning online.
My biggest struggle is taking pictures of my grandchildren, they are at the age where it's so hard to get the to sit still. Looking for creative ways to take photos of constantly moving children. :)

Wow, what a lot of entries! My biggest problem is remembering to take out the camera! Thanks for sharing this book with us!

My biggest photo struggle is knowing when to delete the less than stellar photos. I'm getting better with my more recent photos, but I have 3+ years of digital photos that I am afraid to purge. I just can't seem to bring myself to get rid of something that I "might" be able to use in a layout sometime in the future.
Thanks for the chance to win the book!

My biggest photo struggles -
Keeping my camera away from my kids (it now has to be sent in for repairs!)
Keeping my photos and negatives organized
Lighting - things just never turn out the way I think they will because of the lighting
Biggest digital frustration - that darned pause between when you push the button, and when it takes the picture.
Getting photos printed - I want to have them all done, even the mediocre ones.

My biggest photo struggles -
Keeping my camera away from my kids (it now has to be sent in for repairs!)
Keeping my photos and negatives organized
Lighting - things just never turn out the way I think they will because of the lighting
Biggest digital frustration - that darned pause between when you push the button, and when it takes the picture.
Getting photos printed - I want to have them all done, even the mediocre ones.

Since switching to digital, my biggest struggle is deciding whether or not to print all the photos I don't delete. I have gotten much better about deleting (gasp!) the photos that really aren't that good or the extras when I take 15 of the same thing. But I still struggle in the "to print or not to print" department. If they're on the computer only, then in all likelihood I'm the only one who's ever going to see them. (Although my kids LOVE looking at them on the computer.) Yet, even when I get them printed, no one really looks at them again except me! I know that I'm not going to scrap every single picture & therein lies my printing dilemma.
And the next biggest issue for me is having enough room for the actual physical storage of them.

Hi Ali,
Since starting scrapbooking & genealogy, I have become my extended family's dumping ground for old & new photos. I treasure these photos but I am having a hard time keeping up with them. I'm trying to archive prints as well as scan and save digitally. I have fantasies of eventually making a CD-based slide-show that I can send out to everyone--someday...
Thanks!
Krista

I have the hardest time using a colored photo on my scrapbook pages! It so hard for me to pick out paper and embellishments when I try using a colored photo! It's so much easier when I turn everything to black and white!

problem...tons of pictures and tons of page/album ideas...the problem is meching the two of those together, in an organized way!...debra