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The first fully digital camera was released in 1989 by Fujifilm. If you were lucky enough to own one, that means youve been taking amazing photos for over 30 years. That probably also means that you have tons of images floating around.

Even if you only started taking photos with a smartphone, that amounts to an enormous collection of digital memories. Tap or click here to see if your photos were used in AI surveillance research. At some point, you need to sort through and organize your photos in a central storage location.

But where do you begin if you have thousands upon thousands of photos? Its a daunting task, but theres a simple trick to making it easier on yourself.

Dont try to do it all at once. If youre staring at thousands of photos or just swiping through your phones gallery and thinking, How in the world do I sort all this? youre not alone. But dont think about the end goal. Take it a small chunk at a time.

That can mean sorting through one day, one week or one month of photos while youre watching TV. Or maybe you turn on your favorite podcast and sort pictures until you finish an episode.

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No matter how you decide to split things up, stay consistent. Chip away a little at a time and before you know it, that mess is contained.

Need help getting the ball rolling? Here are some tips and tricks to cleaning up your photos.

You might have photos stored in places that you dont realize. The most obvious place would be digital storage like your smartphone or on your computers hard drive.

But what about the old camera that you threw into the junk drawer years ago? There is a good chance the memory card might still have some images on it that havent been backed up anywhere yet.

Make a list of all the places where you could still have photos stored:

The next step can be laborious, but it is necessary to save storage and money. If you have been studious about placing your photos in marked (or dated) folders, going through them shouldnt be too much of a pain. But you should make sure not to store duplicate images.

But since you could have photos spanning decades from various devices, you will need some help in sorting through them. Luckily there is an app for that, and Remo is perfect for the job.

Available for Android and iOS devices, Remo Duplicate Photos Remover is an app that scans your phone for duplicates and deletes them for you.

If you are working on a Mac, have a look at Photos Duplicate Cleaner. For Windows-based machines, Duplicate Cleaner helps you locate and delete similar photos, and it works for other file types, too.

You have gathered up all your photos and removed duplicates now what? Well, the next step in organizing is to decide the central platform that will host them. You could take a hybrid approach by storing them in the cloud and on a dedicated hard drive, or you can go with just a cloud option.

Here are some options:

If you have a hard drive on your computer with enough storage space, you can save all your images on it. But there are some risks involved, like hard drive failures or viruses. Thats why a secure cloud backup is a must.

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Dumping photos into your hard drive isnt the best solution. Its better to use professional software to help organize. Open-source digital photo management software like digiKam is great for this purpose. It runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS and is a tool for importing, managing, editing and sharing photos.

In combination with cloud storage, we recommend storing your photos securely on an external hard drive. External drives are less likely to fail and can easily be locked away in a safe. Some external drives to consider:

WD (or Western Digital) has been making popular external drives for years. This USB 3.0 drive is compatible with Windows PCs, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Xbox. It comes in four varieties ranging from 1TB ($49.00) to 5TB ($99.99).

Solid-state drives (SSD) are a bit more expensive than conventional ones, but they offer faster transfer speeds. Since this SSD is compatible with USB-C and USB 3.2, it has transfer speeds of up to 1050MB/s. It has drop protection and IP55 water and dust resistance.

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