Here are some basic photo tips that you might find helpful.
Tip 1: Scan all your old photos and turn them into digital versions. Photos fade, and can even get lost ! So preserve those old photos by scanning them and turning them into a digital version you can make a backup copy of! Here are some articles to help you get started in scanning your own photos.
Article: How to Scan a Photo into Photoshop Elements or Photoshop
Article: Setting the Scanning Resolution in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
Article: Getting Old Photos Changed to Digital Photos
Article: 4 Steps to Straighten a Scanned Crooked Photo in Photoshop Elements
Article: How to Straighten a Scanned Photo in Photoshop
Tip 2: Save the original photo. Whenever you open a photo into Photoshop 
Elements or Photoshop, immediately do a “Save As” and name your photo a new name as to create a new image to work on.
This allows you to preserve the original photos so that it cannot be ruined or changed, and you will always have the original photo if you need it.
Learn how to duplicate an original
photo in Three different ways by taking the Getting Started Series Lesson 2!
Lesson 2 comes with a Bonus Step-By-Step Guide: 3 Ways to Duplicate a Photos!
Get Lesson 2 for Photoshop Elements!
Tip 3 Organize your Photos! It is hard to use your photo for digital scrapbooking or photo editing if they are lost on your computer!
Get training to organize your photos and digital scrapbooking supplies, How to “Get Organized in the Organizer: A Simple Start in Photoshop Elements, Lesson 1” is a great Intermediate 3-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics of using the Organizer for organizing images!
This Simple Start Lesson Set teaches you easy and simple ways to begin to organizing with the Organizer in Photoshop Elements!
You might also want to get this Organizer
training to help you organize your images – How to “Get Organized in the Organizer Using Organizing Features in Elements, Lesson 2“ Lesson 2 takes your digital organizing to the next level, by pushing past the basics of the Organizer! Make your digital photos, digital scrapbooking supplies, and digital scrapbooking projects neat, tidy, and incredibly easy to find with more secrets revealed about the Organizer!
Get this coordinating all-about-the-Organizer training and learn how to do more advanced organization within the Organizer, like add keyword tags or create albums and categories to bring some much needed order to all of your many digital things! While other companies may focus their Organizer training specifically on photos (and only photos!), Digital Scrapbooks and More reviews organizing both digital photos and digital supplies – for the best of both worlds!
Tip 4: Always back up your photos. Back up your digital photos to a CD or external hard drive.
You can just copy your digital photos from their folders on your computer to an external drive so you will have a copy of all of your images. One of the easiest ways to backup your digital photos on CDs or an external hard drive is with Photoshop Elements Organizer.
Get training on how to do this with: How to: “Get Organized in the Organizer Using Organizing Advanced Features in Elements, Lesson 3.
Learn how you can use the Organizer to help you make much-needed back up copies of your most-treasured photos in case of an emergency or computer-crash, or learn how to make a back up copy of your favorite supplies to use on a newly purchased computer or separate laptop.
Try these 4 tips to saving and organizing photos!
Enjoy!
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