August 2008 Archives
With so many photo sharing website options, it can be difficult to choose which one is right for you. Each seems to offer a little bit more than the next. You can be overwhelmed by the options and offers, sign up on the spur of the moment, and discover later that the site doesn't offer what you want.
Do your preliminary research by answering these five simple questions and you're sure to pick the right site first time.
Freewebs, like Tripod and Geocities before it, offers a full range of website tools for free. Photo sharing is very easy -- Freewebs has options to create albums and slideshows, and even offers photo editing tools.
Looking for a safe place to store your photo sharing images? KoffeePhoto has the security you seek. Want a handy desktop utility for organizing and sharing your photos? Or an easy method for ordering prints? You can get it all -- and more -- at KoffeePhoto.
A lot of people think digital photography is too difficult for kids to master, but you can easily prove them wrong. After all, what's one of the perks of digital photography? You can take a hundred pictures, decide you hate them, and delete them all without paying a cent for film and development. That makes digital photography and kids a perfect match: kids like to mess around and with digital cameras, they can.
If you've thought about introducing your kids to digital photography and want to do it in a fun and interesting way, try some of these ideas.
Everyone loves great photo captions. They take a scrapbook or picture book beyond the mundane, add a personal touch, and liven up your photos. But for some people, the process of coming up with photo captions is absolutely excruciating. They're terrified that they'll write something dumb, or they just can't figure out what to say so they end up writing nothing at all.
Fortunately, when you're working online you can fiddle around with your captions without worrying you'll be stuck with one you don't like. With systems like Flickr and iPhoto, you can practice with a variety of captions without committing to them.-- and you can edit your captions anytime. Here are some tips to get you started on your great photo captions
Whoever came up with the idea of using photo mugs as photo gifts must be a billionaire by now. It's such a simple concept: take a mug -- something people use all the time -- and make it personal by sticking a photograph on it.
We see them everywhere these days, but not too long ago, they were all but unheard of. In those days, just having a photo mug was a status symbol of sorts -- the ultimate in photo gifts. Now that they've become so common, though, just a photo mug doesn't seem quite as impressive. So how can you make your photo gifts stand out from the crowd?
Were you ever concerned about how to store photos online? Many people once were. Websites used to be notoriously fickle about deleting stored data -- even iPhoto one time lost one of my files. People worried that they wouldn't be able to access their precious photos if something went wrong. Many people still have concerns about privacy.
Fortunately, most of those qualms have been addressed, and it makes a lot of sense to store photos online. Here are some answers to the most common questions about online photo storage.
Smilebox is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. With options to make scrapbooks, slideshows, e-cards, photo albums, and postcards, you'll never run out of things to do -- and reasons to smile. Let's talk about slideshows.
