Digital Photos - now what?
 

I took a bunch of digital photos at the beach in Port Elgin. Now I want to share them with the hosts. They have email and internet access. Is the easiest way to just email the photos to them as jpg files, or is there something better that I don't know about e.g. posting them on a website or something?

Best way, by far, is posting them on one of the free sites. Yahoo offers free space, and it's also an opportunity to get a spare email address. My favorite is probably webshots-- www.webshots.com . I used their free space for a couple of years, and finally subscribed for extra space. Mine are at http://community.webshots.com/user/bookhall .

There's a guy who maintains a labor of love--an ongoing comparison of free photo sites. Try http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/photo/albums.html . He's been keeping it updated for years, and I both thank and admire him for it.

There are several options. I put them on my hard drive and back them up with my CD burner.

I attach selected photos to e-mail to friends & families, but if the recipient only has a 56K modum, it could take a long time form them to download.

You can place your photos on ofoto.com or shutterfly.com and then share your photo albums with friends and families.

I do all three. Good luck ((b))

Thanks bookhall. I checked out Yahoo and I think I can use the photo albums. Bud I will check out the sites you gave me also. ps I love the budman saluation symbol!

We use Yahoo photos and it works well for sharing pictures. A nice feature is that you or your friends can order prints of the pictures through the site if you want hard copies.

I use Ofoto.com to post pictures for family and friends to see. It's free and very easy to use.

The easiest way to share digital photographs is to take the digital card from the camera to a store, have prints made, and mail the pictures to your hosts.

They will then be able to look at the pictures whenwver they want, hand them around, take them over to show friends, etc, without jamming around some piece of electonic hardware.

There's a variety of ways of getting prints made; the most convenient (outside of giving the card to the clerk and saying "Please print them all, 4x6.) are at kiosks inside stores (often at Wal-Mart and Costco, in the case of the US of A)You put the memory card in a slot, and your images come up on a screen.

Press a few buttons for each picture, and you either skip it, or you tell the machine what size print,you can crop it so you cut out the bad parts, do a little color correction and fix up poor exposure, plus make some other changes.

You do not have to pay any attention to resixing original files or alter resolution settings to meet printer requirements.

The prints are on real photo paper,usually from Kodak or Fuji. Different retailers take different lengths of time to make the prints, but at some Costco stores you can do your shopping and pick up your photos before you leave.

If you do want to send pictures by e-mail, decide if you want the recipients to just see the pictures on a screen, or if you want them to be able to make prints. You need to fix up the resolution into two different files if you want them to have both prints and on-screen viewing, without them having to do a lot of computer manipulation.

Save them in a pixel size (750 wide works well for horizontal photos) for on-screen viewing, and save them in a high resolution file based on 250 pixels per inch for each inchyou think they'll want a print to be. GFor instance, for 5x7 print, save the file at 1250 x 1750 pixels (or close to that; many camera take 1200 x 1600 pictures, and that's close enough)

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