Just something to add about writing the story down immediately.

I’ve had my grandmother’s old typewriter on my kitchen bench for a few days now and because it’s so accessible I’ve been typing a lot.

Yesterday I had a lot to say and found myself standing there for over an hour typing away about what the day was and what we were doing.

I learnt to type on old typewriters in school, so typing is totally fun for me. I was making up stuff at the end, so I could keep typing!

Anyway, I was standing there amazed going, “I’m going to leave this guy out here for a bit longer, so I can do more of this!” It usually lives in another room in the house, but now I’m wondering how I can get it out of there and nearer to my scrapbooking area permanently.

Oh, and we had a family do on Saturday night and I purposely left the typewriter out. It got a work out and it was pretty funny to read what my niece and nephew said. Niece (aged 12) had never used one before and nephew (aged 15) just typed as he talked and talked about there being no backspace and that he made mistakes etc. Was funny and fun to read.

So, immediacy of story captured for me? On Grandma’s typewriter of all things. It’s a bit bigger than a notebook in the drawer, but it’s working, so I’m going with it!

Thanks for the fun episode!

Debra in Australia

We do plan to answer it — just thought I’d let you know, hee hee!

I know I’ve talked about my workflow in different ways around Paperclipping.
There’s a bit here and there in articles — you could try doing a search on
my website for “Aperture” and see what you come up with. There is also a
Member’s Video where I share my process for choosing photos (although it’s
been even more refined since then).

As soon as my Design Course is done and released to the Paperclipping
Members I am going to start working on a course for Aperture. Not only will
I teach in detail all the in’s and out’s of how to use Aperture, I’ll also
share my workflow! :) I can’t tell you how excited I am to make it!!

One question that keeps coming up for me as I listen and relisten to show after show is how do you handle the same stories/pictures? For example, I really love taking my daughter to our local parks and our family to some local beaches here, and of course some are our favorites and we have lots of pictures from several different visits. At times it feels a bit stale when all the pictures have the same background especially if something not extraordinary happens during that visit. I do love Stacy Julian’s big picture approach and to try to use those pictures for things not necessarily related to that picture (ie a picure of my daughter playing at the beach on a layout about her personality), but I sometimes find it hard to get inspired by those pictures which are great, but feel stale. I know Nancy goes to Disney a lot and Noelle you mentioned your frequent trips to local parks what do you do with all those photos when they kinda all start to feel the same?

If you answer my question I’ll definitely have to subscribe and become a non-schmo!

Keep up the great work!

Nancy Hyland

Also, I have a new Mac on the way, so I think I may be migrating from iPhoto to Aperture. Noell, I’d love to hear more about your Aperture work flow. And I’d also love to get feedback from others who’ve gone from iPhoto to Aperture. I really just use iPhoto for organizing, and I don’t currently do a lot of processing on my photos; will Aperture help me do some basic editing?

Oh, yes, I totally do use a photo more than once! I have found that a single
photo can have three or four different stories to tell! One might be an
event story, another might be a relationship story, another might be an
individual personality story, then there could be a tradition story. Those
are just examples.

Or sometimes I want to scrapbook a story in my head — I’m not starting from
a picture, I’m starting from a story. I’ll go looking for a photo that
demonstrates my story well and often a good find is one I’ve already
scrapbooked. No worries because the layout and the story on the layout will
be totally new.

I could have sworn I’ve written an article on this with examples, but I
can’t find it. I just might have to write another! :)