86 % of all digital photos we take never leave the
memory card. Why?
We are all time-challenged,
and the task of doing something useful with the photos can be a little daunting
(and we usually get around to it when we are very tired and don’t have the
energy for it).
I have found that my best
long-term satisfaction is creating a photo-book, where the printer uses their
ink, not mine. One of my good friends
found some of these books on special for an incredible price. I was able to
create two photo books of my family trip last summer – each containing about
100, full page sized photos, for maybe $65 total. This would be about 1/3 rd. the normal
price.
Otherwise, I put most of my
photos up on Picasa website, where I pay a little extra for larger storage, and
as an insurance policy that they won’t go out of business (as Sony did) and
lose my photos in the cloud. These are
little slide shows, and I can easily e-mail them to friends. I can also e-mail single photos to friends
using that system.
Other recommended websites
for storage and sharing: Shutterfly, www.shutterfly.com, SugarSync www.sugarsync.com,
Flickr
www.flicker.com. While these are good, so far my tests with
them haven’t pleased me as much as Picasa.
Picasa will also seamlessly move my photos to my Walgreen’s account for
in-store printing via on-line ordering. I have quit posting up my photos on
Walgreens site, as it had some working issues and I got frustrated with their
system. But they still do decent (cheap)
printing. Try www.BHG.com/digital for
some more ideas.
Non-digital photos ? BH says “send that box of old nondigital
photos to a service such as www.ScanDigital.com, or www.ScanCafe.com. For about 25 to 50 cents a photo, you’ll
receive a disk of images. These
companies use high grade, professional copy techniques to get better results
than “home copying” systems found in retail stores.
Please post a comment on your favorite photos sharing site, or other ways to make digital photos more useful.
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