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The Best Ways to Take Advantage of Your Old Photos
Author: Alex Don
After a few years of owning a digital camera, the average amateur photographer has a huge number of pictures somewhere on an external hard disk or on CDs. Some of his favorites have been printed out and placed into an album and he may have used a few with a Calendar Kit to give out as a gift. Others have been used to make a fun slideshow to watch at a family reunion. But there are still hundreds or maybe thousands of pictures which are left there and never used. What could you do with them?
The truth is the options are countless. An idea that might suit you is a digital photo frame. This is something like a small external flat screen you can hook up to a computer or insert a memory card and cycle through several photos. There is a wide variety of frames available on the market today. The cheapest ones range from 70 pounds for a 5.6 inch one to 150 pounds for 7 inches. Prices will continue to drop over the next years as the manufacturing costs for color screens will decrease.
A cheaper alternative is using an online photo service. These have spread up all over the web and will allow your friends and family to browse through your photos whenever they want. Many of these services are free of charge and they can be easily used by people with very little computer knowledge. Or, if you have the time and want to create your own photo website, there are many tutorials available on the Internet that take you through the whole process step-by-step, from buying a domain name to uploading your images.
There are also many online companies that offer high-quality printing services. A single photo can cost as little as one penny. You can also choose a different printing option, like getting your digital images printed onto mugs, t-shirts, cushions, teddy bears and anything that crosses your mind.
An option which has gained popularity these days is canvas printing. The photo is printed directly on a specially treated canvas, framed and sent to your house. Up until recently, this service used to be quite expensive, but thanks to a series of innovations in the canvas printing technique, it has become much more affordable. Canvas printing turns a digital photograph into an interesting, eye-catching piece that can bring even the dullest wall to life. The size of these prints ranges from 40x30cm to 160×120. However, not all digital images are suitable for high enlargements. You can use the tools embedded in the canvas printing website to see if your photo is suitable for the print size you have chosen.
Besides all the online services out there, you can also use the services of the automated photo kiosks which can now be found on all high streets. All you have to do is insert a memory card and select the pictures you want to print, then you put in some money and the machine prints them for you on the spot. Or you can use the same machine to burn photos on a CD. This is a very convenient option for photographers who don’t have a good printer or a CD writer at home.
About the Author:
Alex is a writer about photography techniques for http://reshade.com . Reshade works in the field of online picture processing programs and offers a free online photo resizer web-tool. It’s also possible to purchase a photo resizer application for Windows. Give it a try !
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