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018 Preserving Digital Photos on an Online Website
Your niece’s wedding was lovely, and you were able to take some fun pictures of both family and friends that you saw there. If you are like my wife, Jill, when you get back home, you download the pictures to your computer and perhaps crop them or adjust the color, etc. She then generally erases them from her camera, so that she has room for new ones. Sometimes she posts them on the internet and sends a few choice ones to the people who are in the photos. And then what happens to them? These are some of her thoughts:
It is easy to forget about the pictures that you have taken, and you may have many now on your computer. But what happens if your computer fails, and those precious photos are wiped out? Read more
017 How to Display Photos in Digital Frames
A digital photo frame by Think Geek
Many digital photo frames offer standard features like built-in memory, Wi-Fi, and video playback. Here are some considerations: Read more
016 How to Make a Photo Album
To begin: Read more
015 The Difference between Making a Scrapbook and Selecting a Service to Make It for You
When you make your own scrapbook, you have total control on how you want the finished product to work. You can experiment with different kinds of page set-ups, backgrounds, picture displays, etc. The options are endless. The process of putting all of these varied factors together in a finished product can be pleasurable for many. Scrapbookers often meet together and work on their pages, allowing them enjoyable visiting times as well.
Although there are many options that you have in a professionally made scrapbook, you still will need to use the professional’s choices of templates, colors, themes, etc. Professional albums are much more expensive, usually running from $12 for a two-page 6 x6 spread to $26 or even $50 for a two-page 12 x 12 spread.
In addition, there is a time factor involved – not just your time if you are creating the album yourself, but also the time for a professional to create it for you. A typical 20 page album, for instance, can take four to eight weeks.
014 Selecting a Scrapbooking Service – Custom Scrapbooking
Example custom pages by Generationscrap.com
013 How to Make Scrapbook Memories
But just how to begin making scrapbook memories? My wife, Jill, offers these suggestions for starting a regular, physical scrapbook (as opposed to a digital scrapbook): Read more
012 The Differences between Making a Photo Book and Selecting a Service to Make It for You
Advantages in Making a Photo Book by Yourself
- Although purchasing software with sufficient power to format, paginate, index, etc. book-length projects can be expensive, if you have many books to print with many pages, making a do-it-yourself photobook is likely to be less expensive in total than using a photo book service.
- Having your own software allows you to design your book in virtually any way you want – there are no fixed templates, for example, the you are required to use. You can make your own.
- Your printing and binding options are greater. You can select for example, a printer with the highest quality and lowest printing prices but whose bindery (if they have one) cost or quality is not great, and then use a bindery that may be a different company whose quality and pricing better meets your needs. You do not have these choices with a one-stop photo book service.
Advantages in Using a Photo Book Service Read more
011 Selecting a Photo Book Service
Photo Books Are Great for Preserving and Sharing Memories
As discussed in the prior article, photo books differ from photo albums in several ways, not the least of which are: Read more
010 How to Make a Photo Book
Photobooks provide memories that will last for generations
A photo book is like a photo album, only with these differences:
• Your photos are actually printed on the pages, not attached to them by glue or stickers,
• Colorful arrangements and pre-designed themes are often available via software,
• The cover can have a design of your choosing, rather than the usual plain cover,
• Bindings are usually permanently sewn or glued, unlike albums that have posts or clips that allow insertion and removal of pages, and
• Multiple copies of the same book can be printed in any quantity you choose.
Never heard of a photo book? You’re not alone. Read more
009 The Differences between Making Photo Gifts and Selecting a Service to Do It for You
- Cost
- Quality and variety
- Control
- Convenience
Cost Read more