In the digital age finding your photographs shouldn’t be a problem. It’s not like you’re having to deal with masses of negative strips like we used to have to organise when we used 35mm film cameras. In those days you’d need to keep them safe in wallets and make sure they didn’t get dusty or creased, because if they did you wouldn’t be printing any more photos from them!

No, today we just need to save our images to a computer or a storage device and we can store tens of thousands of photographs as easy as we’d save files on the Internet. Then they’re ready for you whenever you need them to print as pictures, upload to websites or print on canvas.

However, you need to be careful with your digital pictures because you won’t have any negatives to rescue you, should you happen to lose the file or delete it accidentally. Therefore you should copy your images and keep backups, because if your computer crashes and isn’t recoverable, can you afford to lose the images it contains?

You can use an external storage drive, a USB flash drive, or even upload your photos to Flickr or some other such file saving website. The more copies you have of your pictures, the safer they’ll be.

Imagine if the worst happened right now, and you lost every photo on your PC; have you made backups?