The Memory Curator with Allison Lee

The Memory Curator with Allison Lee The Memory Curator is an online course for busy mums/moms who want to organise their digital photos

Love to make photobooks? So do I!Here are my 3 favourite tools for making the process simpler, repeatable and fast.Canva...
25/07/2026

Love to make photobooks? So do I!

Here are my 3 favourite tools for making the process simpler, repeatable and fast.

Canva: Here I create projects that have multiple uses. One project can be printed as a photobook, downloaded as a video and saved as a pdf.

Lightroom Classic: I keep my family photo collection in Lightroom. So when I have a big project, I usually will make the photobook inside Lightroom so I can work with my photos without moving them or uploading them to a book making site.

Snapfish: All my family photobooks are printed with Snapfish at a family-friendly pricepoint, so I don't stress about damage.

Making photobooks becomes infinitely more fun and enjoyable once you have your photos organised. If a messy photo collection is standing in your way, comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to my free workshop on how you can get 1000s of photos organised fast.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story. I would love to help you too!

One of the biggest myths about organising photos is that you have to fix every mistake you've made in the past before yo...
24/07/2026

One of the biggest myths about organising photos is that you have to fix every mistake you've made in the past before you can move forward.

You don't.

Many of my students have tried to organise their photos several times over the years. In the process they've accidentally created thousands of duplicates, copied folders between computers and hard drives, and ended up feeling even more overwhelmed.

That's exactly why I teach using software. It does so much of the heavy lifting for you.

I also love the last part of this student's message. Once the photos became organised, it wasn't just her who benefited. Her whole family started looking through old memories and rediscovering moments they hadn't seen in years.

That's what an organised photo collection is really for.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story.

Comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to my free workshop so you can learn exactly what Julie did to finally get her photos organised.

I would love to help you too!

Most people think the quickest way to free up space on their phone is to start deleting photos.If you use Google Photos,...
23/07/2026

Most people think the quickest way to free up space on their phone is to start deleting photos.

If you use Google Photos, there's a much safer option.

The **Free up space** feature removes photos from your phone **only after they've been safely backed up to Google Photos**. It can free up gigabytes of storage in just a few taps without you having to scroll through thousands of photos deciding what to keep.

But I find most of my students don’t know it is an option!

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story. I would love to help you too!

Comment SOFTWARE and I will sent you the link to my free workshop on how to organise your photos fast.

Q: Can I import Live Photos into Lightroom Classic?A: Yes! Lightroom Classic imports both parts of a Live Photo, the sti...
22/07/2026

Q: Can I import Live Photos into Lightroom Classic?

A: Yes! Lightroom Classic imports both parts of a Live Photo, the still image and the MOV video file. It won't play the live animation the way your iPhone does, but both files are safely imported and organised together. This can inflate your collection especially if you are taking live photos of everything. There is not much to be done to avoid that with live photos you already have. But it is worth considering whether you want the option always on moving forward.

Interested in more tips on organising your photos?
Comment SOFTWARE and I'll send you the link to my free workshop.
Start building your own organised collection.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story. I would love to help you too!

It is time for another short course! This month it is Get Your Photos Backed Up in 2026. Tomorrow (Thursday 23 July): ...
22/07/2026

It is time for another short course! This month it is Get Your Photos Backed Up in 2026.

Tomorrow (Thursday 23 July): 10am Sydney time

Here is the link to register: https://memorycurator.com/pages/this-months-short-course

This class is for you if the worry of losing your photos keeps you awake at night.

Or if you have ever gotten that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you press "delete" on your phone.

We will be talking about your options for backing up your phone photos and your Master Photo Collection. There is not a one size fits all so come with questions!

Want to see what an organised photo collection actually looks like?These are real Lightroom Classic libraries from my st...
21/07/2026

Want to see what an organised photo collection actually looks like?

These are real Lightroom Classic libraries from my students.

And they did not start this way.

They started with photos scattered across phones, computers, external hard drives, USB sticks, and cloud services.

Thousands of photos.

Duplicates everywhere.

Folders that made no sense.

And no idea how to bring it all together.

Then they learned how to use software to do the heavy lifting.

They brought their photos together.

Sorted them into a simple dated folder structure.

Identified duplicates.

And created one organised collection they could finally understand and manage.

These aren't professional photo organisers.

They are ordinary people who learned a system.

If you have been looking at your scattered photos thinking, "I could never get all of this organised," I want you to see what is possible.

Comment SOFTWARE and I'll send you the link to my free workshop where I show you how to start building an organised photo collection of your own.

21/07/2026

My opnion? No.

Unless your budget is unlimited.

I would much rather see you invest in 2 regular external drives and back up regularly.

I have seen more SSD drives fail in the first few weeks than I have regular drives.

You can get 3 to 4 regular drives for the price of an SSD of the same size.

⭐️If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story.

📸To learn how to organise your photos mess fast comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to register for my free workshop.

To make sure you don't miss any tips, follow me Allison - Photo Organising Expert and Photographer

Where are ALL your photos?Not just the photos on your phone right now.The ones on old laptops you haven't turned on for ...
20/07/2026

Where are ALL your photos?

Not just the photos on your phone right now.

The ones on old laptops you haven't turned on for years.

External hard drives you kept "just in case."

The Downloads folder on your computer.

USB sticks sitting in a drawer.

Photos sent to an old email address.

CDs you haven't looked at in decades.

Most people have spent a lifetime collecting photos without ever having a system for bringing them all together.

So they stay scattered.

And the longer you leave them, the harder it feels to start.

But you don't need to sort through each of these places one by one.

You need a method for bringing ALL your photos into one consolidated collection and software that can help you organise them quickly.

That's exactly what I teach.

Comment SOFTWARE and I'll send you the link to my free workshop where I show you how to bring decades of scattered photos together into one organised collection.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story. I would love to help you too!

What is the #1 thing most people don’t know about Apple Photos? (tip: save this for later if you have an Apple device)...
19/07/2026

What is the #1 thing most people don’t know about Apple Photos? (tip: save this for later if you have an Apple device)

It is that when you use the Apple Photos App, your photos are stored in a proprietary Apple file called the Photos Library.

This file is NOT a folder. It cannot be opened like a regular folder in Finder. It can only be opened by the Photos App.

Most people expect that they can access their photos somewhere outside of the Photos App. That would make sense right? You can see individual files that are documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc. So why can’t you see your individual jpegs or image files?

That is a question for Apple, but in my experience with 100s of students, this becomes really problematic when you want to store your individual digital photos on an external hard drive, or organise them into folders, or use a software like Lightroom Classic. With your photos stored in the Photos App (and thus in a Photos Library file) you can’t do any of the above.

In addition, if you have old Photos Libraries that didn’t get properly upgraded, they can be impossible to open with the current iOS version you have. So your precious photos are forever locked into this Photos Library file.

I spend a significant amount of time helping people figure out how to extract their photos from their Apple devices, in particular the Apple Photos App. It can be done and there are about 4 different ways to do it depending on your situation.

1. Download from icloud
2. Request your photos back from Apple
3. Export from the Photos App
4. Use a secret backdoor method to break into the Library

Apple is brilliant at a lot of things, but can make organising your photos really complicated.

If you would love to know how to organise your photo outside of the Apple ecosystem but still use your iPhone, comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to my free workshop

Ever wondered about this? iCloud can be tricky and it is easy to get lost in the setup especially if you have multiple A...
18/07/2026

Ever wondered about this? iCloud can be tricky and it is easy to get lost in the setup especially if you have multiple Apple devices. You can be keeping originals in one place and tiny files in another. It is worth understanding what is going on.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story.

If you would like to learn more about getting your photo mess sorted, comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to my free workshop.

I would love to help you sort out your photo mess. Make this the year you finally get it done!

Ever wondered about this? iCloud can be tricky and it is easy to get lost in the setup especially if you have multiple Apple devices. You can be keeping originals in one place and tiny files in another. It is worth understanding what is going on.

If you are new here, I am Allison and I help people get their photos organised so they can protect their memories and use them to tell their family's story.

If you would like to learn more about getting your photo mess sorted, comment SOFTWARE and I will send you the link to my free workshop.

I would love to help you sort out your photo mess. Make this the year you finally get it done!

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