Friday, 26 December 2008
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QOTD: What Do You Do With Photos?
Guest post submitted by babydreams
If you're like me you've probably taken thousands of pictures of your family and friends (and food
) on your digital camera. I have file after file after file on my computer of images from the past year. I'd like to do something with the pictures but I'm not very crafty.
A girlfriend of mine suggested I make a photo book online but I was wondering if anyone has tried to do one before and what company they'd recommend going with (there are sooo many companies out there!).
What do you do with the digital photos you take? Do you print any out or just save them on your hard drive?
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I do digitial scrapbooking! I love it. It does take some creativity though. If this is not your cup of tea, I would recommend Shutterfly's photo book that you can put together. It is easy to do and priced well. It makes great gifts too! I hope this helps.
I like the idea of digital scrapbooking, but haven't done it yet because right now I don't have a lot of extra time to spend on messing with my pictures. I do the old fashioned photo album right now because it's quick and easy and gets the pics out of my computer where I can enjoy them in book format. Maybe this next year, since we're having a new baby, I will finally start my first digital scrapbook!
Try ourhubbub.com, it is a really great site that you can make photo books online, and then actually have them made into a book. It's pretty cool, I've been to the plant they make them at and work pretty closely with them. I'd definitely recommend it.
Keep them on my camera or on my computer.
My family has a media center, which is basically just a computer attached to our TV. It allows us to play music on our computer through our TVs, videos online, etc. So we keep our photos on the computer, and when we have company that will enjoy them (like my grandma or aunts and uncles) we put them on a slideshow on the TV. Or when we're housecleaning, or just hanging out and feel like looking at the pictures. Its relaxed, because there's no pressure to watch thousands of photos, but it makes for great conversation duing conversation lulls.
Right now, my pictures are stuck in my computer. I'm planning on printing them and putting them in regular photo albums.
One of my friends took several of my pictures on Picasa and made me a photobook on shutterfly. It is absolutely beautiful - by far my favorite gift! I about started crying!
@SleepinginShadows@xanga - That is a really nifty idea!
i'm always lazy to develop the photos. but i know one day if i have a child, i would defintely make a scarpbook of him/her. recently i learn to use the window movie maker on window vista and i am planning to make some movies soon :)
I do regular scrapbooking with paper and stickers and such.....
I upload them, save them on my laptop, and save them on Photobucket under private, in case my laptop were to suddenly crash or something.
I save everything on my computer, but I also print off a collection of pictures every few months (Shutterfly) and put them in regular photo albums. Eventually I want to start scrapbooking, but I'm not very creative, so I'm scared to try.
A friend of mine got a photobook for Christmas, of her grandkids, & family... It turned out beautifully with text telling the story of each picture etc.... I don't know how much it cost to have it made, but it was lovely!!! She had it done at Kodakgallery.com
Kodak.com has a really good program for scrapbooks and albums with several instant fixs you can make and no I don't work for them.
I actually just upload all of my pictures right here on Xanga. That way I can view them easily, and so can all my friends and family.
I use myphotoalbum.com to upload my pictures. I also have an external hard drive where I have all my photos saved and organized.
i print out my pictures as well as download them on my computer. i do scrap booking with my photos, its fun!
these are all great suggestions. Since I got into digital cameras I have exploded with the taking of pics. All organised into albums of specific events or categories on my main computer and back-up on my lap top. Yes my first question was what do I do with all of them? I have tried several online places that gave free album storage - so many of them have now gone out of business or only allowed a very limited storage for free. Kodak is my favorite for family pics as I can make them private, and send a link to special friends and family who are all online (and spread around the world) without it being open to everyone on the web. They have one condition for keeping them there for more than 1 year - you have to order from them once a year minimum. No problem for me, around Feb I check out what I have put in there and just order the particular ones I want hard copies for in my normal photo album, and they are a whole lot cheaper than doing this myself or going to places in town for prints. The other types of photos I put mostly into CARE2 which has an unlimited album storage - condition no more than 400 in any one 30 day period. (the album can be made private or public - your choice) Easy to keep within that boundary most of the time. Again I can share the link anywhere I wish and love to do just that. Now I see Facebook is doing that too, for those who may have one. There are just so many out there to find a good place to utilize those pics and show them off (I have to have a reason for taking them, no good to me if they are just sitting on my computer and no one else sees them haha) The ones I use here in Xanga have all been downsized so not much good for a storage place for later use, and I have yet to find a way here to have them in just albums with links I can share elswhere the same way as I have the other places.
For the most part I just have them saved on my computer. I've made a wedding photo album through Snapfish though. I like the photo books. I just have far too many photos of my daughter to fit everything I want to in a photo album. Also I'm terrible with saving photos and keeping them nice. I've lost so many that I just don't print them anymore. I do want to get an external hard drive to save copies of all the photos on, so I have a back up though.