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Community weekly poll: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos?
- 5/15/06 4:11 PM
photos and what to do with them
by ruffems - 5/16/06 8:01 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
I literally take thousands of photos a year. I think the last count was nearly 5300 this year alone. I travel every week for business to locations such as Colorado and Florida.
I take my digital camera, 3 sets of rechargeable batteries and my laptop. I download each day the photos that I take and put them on my laptop. I store them in folders that delineate out the date and where I was that particular day.
I have dvd's full of photos over the last 5 years and if anyone wants a photo or selection of photos I ask them where the photos were taken and then I burn them a copy of all the photos taken.
I cannot feasibly go thru all the photos I take to weed out the bad ones versus the good ones.
So in essence, the photos go on to the hard drive and anyone who wants them can have them.
An easy solution
by rover2 - 5/16/06 1:01 PM In reply to: photos and what to do with them by ruffemsMark, what happens if you have a hard drive crash or you have a fire, or a flood? What will happen to all your memories? Backing up copies on discs is good but they take up a lot of space and they can be lost. So, what if you were able to go to a free website and no matter where you were, you could upload all your pictures for free. The site would back them up and store them forever in a granite vault. Your pictures would still be on your free web account and you would have access them at any time. You could have prints made, etc. How much easier this would be. You would be able to access all of your files with the click of the mouse. Go to www.photowize.com/usa and check out how simple this process is.
Easy solution? And......... What about the "small prints"?
by floresr - 5/16/06 5:45 PM In reply to: An easy solution by rover2Hi,
Step by step Dear Rover2.
Did you read their "Terms & Conditions" page?
Must - almost all of them - of the free services have a "Termination clause" like this:
"You acknowledge and agree that xxxxxx, in its sole discretion, may terminate your Membership (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, or suspend access to the Service, and remove and discard any Content including, but not limited to, any and all information, communications, postings, albums, image files or any other content within the Service, at any time, without notice, for any reason."
Keep in mind a "Plan B", just in case Rover2.
Bye,
(NT) Upload them to PhotoBucket
by jcsmith - 5/16/06 8:54 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
First things first
by betteguadalupe - 5/16/06 8:56 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
After taking pictures when I get back home I attach usb cable to camera and download to Kodak sharing file on my PC..then I can edit them and send them out all with one program..I think its neat..they get the picures through Kodak sharing and I did it all in just minutes, and I get a response back from Kodak that this person or that person are sharing my pictures..
Image Event and slide shows
by digidiva100 - 5/16/06 9:04 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
I use ImageEvent.com for photo sharing. It's very nice, 3 easy ways to upload including ftp and it presents the images in slide shows if the viewer so desires. You can upload larger images and even videos to the site as well as documents. The viewer can set the viewing size and the timing of the slides in the slide show.
I also make slide shows using ProShow Gold and can add music, motion effects and transition effects with many to choose from. It will also time the slides to the music, either the whole show or specific slides to a song. You can also add sounds that play with or without the background music. I also have PhotoShow Deluxe 4 and use it too. It's also a nice program but not as full featured. However it too now allows you to burn DVDs as does ProShow Gold. You can also upload the shows to the web with both programs and add video footage to the shows which I have done.
Judy
http://ImageEvent.com/jhowle
Upload them on fotki.com
by emarkhasin - 5/16/06 9:11 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
I love this service.
Other
by George B. Lockwood - 5/16/06 9:15 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
First I edit all photos in Photoshop CS, save the edited photos in the .tif format. Then place them in a named folder, then place the folder on my 160Gb external USB-2 hard drive.
I also burn the folder to a CD and take it to Wolf Camera for prints.
I also convert (.jpg) some of the photos for sending to family and friends via email attachments.
None of that
by TrackStar1682 - 5/16/06 9:29 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
Just hand out prints!
Digital Photo Sharing
by CeliaTrout - 5/16/06 9:30 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
Always upload to Flickr. Very easy for all my relatives--young and old--to check out the family photos and download or print their own.
As for family video, I usually upload 1 or 2 of the occasion to youtube.com, and send everyone the url in an email... they love it!
Save Your Precious Memories FOREVER
by rover2 - 5/16/06 9:50 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
Your digital photos are precious memories of your life and need to be preserved forever. There is only one online photo website (and it is free) that has the complete solution to all of your pictures. So the first thing that I do is to upload all my pictures to my personal site where I can organize them into albums, get prints, and have them made into gifts. The important thing about this site is that it backs up all of your photos, archives them, and stores them in a granite vault. You will never lose your pictures again. The service that I use is Photomax. www.photoarchives.myphotomaxusa.com For more info check out www.photowize.com/usa
Use of Digital Photos
by Frank Hall - 5/16/06 9:52 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
Upload from Camera (Canon Powershot A610) to hard drive (iBook G4) and review the photos. Then, i pick the best and upload to Yahoo Photos and send an email to share. It is simple and quick. I went to Arizona about a month ago and had over 600 images. I narrowed them down to about 240 and developed a slide show with music. The time consuming part was selecting the photos and organizing them. Adding the music was a snap.
"that depends . . ."
by poppep01 - 5/16/06 10:25 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
When you say Digital Photos, that runs the gamut to snaps with a camera phone to a small 640x480 digital snap-shot camera to a 5+ megapixel better camera. I use all three. I snap photos with my phone when I'm at the store & send the small image home to see if that's what my wife is looking for, then delete it. I have 2 small cameras that will take about 10 pictues at "high resolution" 640x480 that are todays equivalent of the old Kodak instamatic. It let's you show stupid stuff like friend's making faces at the camera. Don't mess with them, just download and send to the friends in the picture and the couple of them tht missed out on coming. Use yahoo, upload once, and then send out an email to the whole list. The 5 Megapixel camera comes into use as a portrait camera or a beautiful landscape photo. Those you load up into your photo editing tools and start 'fixing' them. Everyone I know that is really into photography has many tools, some good at one thing some good at another, when I'm all don with my projects, what I do with it depends on who it's for. My father is 88 years old, and just barely knows how to turn on a computer, I send TIFF files to a Photo store near his house that I found on the web, and the make him 8x10 color glossy prints & deliver them. (every electronic device in his house blinks "12:00" and will continue to do so forever) My brothers and sisters get mailed 2 presentation quality CD's, one for their own computer's and one for storage. Trying to pretend that "digital photos" make up a homogenious group is a fallacy, and human beings are neithe homogeenious. The real answer to the question is "that depends . . ."
No Editing?
by ktwilson86 - 5/16/06 10:45 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
Almost every photo can benefit from a little time in Photoshop... Not even an option, here.
Travel site
by nnederlo - 5/16/06 10:45 AM In reply to: What is the first thing you do with new digital photos? by Marc Bennett
For those travelling - why wait till you get home?
There's a great site www.mytripjournal.com that lets you comment and load photos on the road as you go. An easy way to stay in touch with all your friends and no hassle when you get back - you've done it already!
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