The Importance Of Backing Up Your Digital Images

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Find different ways to keep your wedding images safe and understand the importance of backing up your digital images now.

The Importance Of Backing Up Your Wedding Pictures

Backing up your digital images is important for several reasons. First, it ensures that you don’t lose any important or irreplaceable photos. Accidents happen, and hard drives and other storage devices can fail, so it’s always a good idea to have multiple copies of your wedding pictures in case something goes wrong.

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Groom with wedding party in black tie and smoking cigars against the venue wall

Avoid malicious software for your wedding pictures

Second, backing up your photos protects against ransomware and other malicious software. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts your files and holds them hostage until you pay a ransom. If you don’t have a backup of your photos, you could be at risk of losing them forever if your computer is infected with ransomware.

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Free up space to back up your wedding pictures

Third, backing up your photos allows you to free up space on your primary storage devices. This can be especially useful if you have a large number of photos and are running out of space on your computer or other devices. By moving some of your photos to a backup location, you can free up space on your primary storage devices and make them run more efficiently.

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Digital security for your wedding pictures

Overall, backing up your digital photos is an important part of maintaining the security and integrity of your digital assets. There are many different ways to back up your photos, including using online storage services, external hard drives, or even printing them out and storing them in a physical photo album. Whatever method you choose, it’s important to regularly back up your photos to ensure that they are safe and secure.

Click here to see our favourite hard drive we use while editing.

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Wedding Photography Packages

We take backing up your images seriously, so don’t underestimate the importance of backing up your digital images. All your investments and memories can be gone if you don’t improve your storage of these treasured images.

What we offer our couples:

1/Online gallery for under a year on pic-time, family and friends can download and print from the professional printing shop if they want.

2/Glass USB with all your wedding pictures on, depending on the package you’ve chosen

3/Professional prints wrapped in a cotton ribbon alongside the glass USB and pic-time gallery, again depending on the package you’ve chosen.

4/We also offer album services if couples wish to purchase a luxury item for the home decor.

The options are endless with the services we offer

We have done this on purpose to spread out the chances of losing your images and we encourage all couples to download their gallery from pic-time and back up with their hard drives or iCloud account.

Backing up your wedding photographs is your responsibility

Please note, that we can only store your wedding images on our systems for 1 year before they’re deleted, as we don’t have the space when we shoot 40 weddings a year and this is a standard practice.