Photo storage management is a topic that comes up often. I have participated in numerous discussions on this topic here on ApertureExpert.com and on other photographer community sites. Regardless of what photo management software you use to edit, catalog and manage your photographs and videos, you need a good strategy for storing and preserving these valuable digital assets. While photo storage management is only a part of the larger subject of Digital Asset Management, it is of such importance that it deserves direct attention. In this article I share my method for photo storage management.

Using a shared Photo Stream’s “like” function as a way of having friends or family tag images can have some clever uses, however Aperture makes part of the workflow a little messy. Fortunately, iPhoto can step in and make the process a little cleaner.