Summer is a big time for travel and getting together with friends and family. That means lots of photos.

Do your future self a favor by taking these five simple steps:

1. Download the photos from your camera or memory card no more than a week after the event ends.
2. Delete any photo that’s out of focus (or just the accidental snaps).
3. Store the photos you want in a safe place (an external hard drive or — even better– cloud storage).
4. Label the photos you keep with the following: who is in the photo, where it was taken, when it was  taken).
5. Share the labelled photos with family and friends, as desired.

I hate finding old photos or memory cards and having no idea of what I’m looking at. Take care of it right away and you won’t have to face that problem.Download the photos from