Now summer’s over, here’s what to do with all those photos on your camera roll

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON AP The summer holidays are over and all those great times you had on vacation have been memorialized in hundreds of smartphone photos Now what Selected highlights the prettiest sunset the best group shots have been posted on Instagram or shared in the family chat group But multiple more will likely languish in your camera roll Because smartphones come with increasingly large amounts of file storage it s too easy to take photos just because we can But it s also real work to go through them all later so it s too easy to forget about them Here are particular quick and easy methods to help deal with the pictures and videos overwhelming your phone Pick your favorites There will chosen shots that will be the preponderance significant standout photos that you want to share with others or know that you ll look back on years later or just keep for reference Star or heart any photos that fall into this category which puts them into a folder or album for favorites Delete with help After a new extended family trip to Turkey I ended up with quite a sparse photos of restaurant and cafe menus They were shared in the family WhatsApp group to decide where or what to eat But we ll supposedly never visit those establishments again It s inevitably good practice to cull photos that you just don t need anymore which could also include screenshots pictures of receipts or duplicate images But going through hundreds of trip photos could be a little tedious without specific help Fortunately there are dozens of photo deletion and cleanup apps available that aim to speed the job up Various of them resemble dating apps like Tinder because they let you swipe left to delete and swipe right to save a photo Particular are free others need a subscription It starts getting more challenging when you have images that are similar but not identical Which one should you keep Specific apps have a comparison feature to help you decide I tried a insufficient of these apps and discovered that Clever Cleaner s Similars function works well helping me whittle down for example several of the various nearly identical shots I took of Istanbul s skyline while passing the Bosphorus Strait by ferry at dusk The free app grouped similar pictures together and then suggested the best shot to keep I located that I generally agreed with its suggestions Tips to help organize your photos Even if you ve managed to sort through your camera roll it will likely still be a jumble of images stretching back in an unbroken stream So group photos into albums organized by themes Android and iPhone users can do this on the Photos apps on their respective operating systems Select all the photos from a trip and add them to a new album Planning ahead will make this process easier Create an album when you start your trip then save the photos there as you take them You can also create a shared album on Android or iPhone which lets other people view or comment on photos or add their own If you don t want to set up a shared album Android and Google Photos lets users create links so others can just view an album or individual photo It s not so easy on iOS which only lets users export the album s photos You can share individual photos with an iCloud link but it expires after days Remember to print Now that you ve edited and curated your holiday pictures consider taking an analog approach to showing them off Print them out and put them in an album that people can flip not scroll through Or blow up the greater part eye-catching shot to frame and hang it as wall art Related Articles First look Universal s Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses for Inside the newest hotel in Ojai which is also the oldest Mahjong nights draw young crowds to San Francisco bars and restaurants The Mecca of ventriloquism is in Kentucky Take a look inside if you dare A guide to earning and redeeming frequent flyer miles Google Photos offers a photo book printing function that uses artificial intelligence to curate photos into generic themes like Spring Memories or They Grow Up So Fast and generate basic no-frills layouts Other services like Mixbook and Shutterfly offer services that automatically generate more elaborately designed photobooks Mixbook can even provide AI-generated photo captions though the results might be well mixed AP Tool Writer Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco contributed to this overview Is there a tech topic that you think necessities explaining Write to us at onetechtip ap org with your suggestions for future editions of One Tech Tip