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General discussion

What do you do most with your digital photos?

Nov 16, 2005 7:23AM PST

What do you do most with your digital photos?

Create slide shows (tell us more)
Print them out (tell us more)
Use an online host for others to view (which one?)
Send to friends and relatives (how?)
Put them on my personal Web site (tell us more)
Other (what is it?)
I don't do anything with them (why not?)
I'd do something if I could get them off the camera!
I don't take digital photos (why not?)

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Putting the pictures on Website
Nov 18, 2005 3:41AM PST

Okay I consider myself rather lazy Happy I still shoot my pictures on film because I do not see the same clarity with digital cameras. Keep in mind that I make a living in part from pro photography of people and often places. I can create photo albums and send a link (really lazy) to whoever I want. Some albums are for the public and some are for particular persons and a lot for my family. Since I live in western Canada and my family are in the eastern part of the country it is fast. I have a rather savy family who take the ones they enjoy and print them on glossy paper and do whatever they want. It is also a fun way to share lots (thousands of pictures) with people everywhere. My ego is enjoying the comments and I also get people to put a pin on a world map. It is now full of pins from countries and that to me is what photography is, fun to take and fun to share. I do include a slideshow for the family to download sometimes with voice over. Gosh, such an ego, but hey, I consider my photography alright. Oh I have been doing photography for over 30 years.

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What do you do most with your digital photos?
Nov 18, 2005 5:50AM PST

I share with friends and relatives via email. When I get enough to fill up a CD I burn them. Soon will be burning DVDs. I also burn the photos that I have been sent. It's the best way I know to archive photos. On the rare occasion that I want one printed, I use Walmart. I, so far, have only printed as the result of a request. I know I have saved Hundreds of dollars this way!

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Use an online host for others to view
Nov 18, 2005 6:07AM PST

I use Sony Imagestation and Snapfish for the photos I would like others to see. I also email particular photos to the subjects.

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I don't use digital cameras.
Nov 18, 2005 7:54AM PST

I still use my old Leica SLR camera with some great lens. Great quality.

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I develop them (if you can call it that)
Nov 18, 2005 8:04AM PST

After I review and edit them in PS Elements, I burn them to CD/DVD and take them to the nearest Walgreens/Walmart photo department. I have them developed in Kodak/Fuji photo paper and include a photo CD in the order in case I want to make some copies of them. Finally, I keep the original files in my External HD in case I decide to do some extra editing in the future. Can't complain. It only costs me 19-25 cents per photo and I only print the worthy ones.

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what to do with photographic items
Nov 18, 2005 9:09AM PST

the ones I like I print and put them in an album which is kept in a glass fronted book shelf,some of the others I burn them onto a CD however a lot of them I simply remove from my digital camera.I'm just not that good a photographer!!

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Burn them to DVDs with Nero Vision Express
Nov 18, 2005 5:17PM PST

I use Nero Vision Express and use random transisions and put appropiate music that goes with certain sections of photos
I have put two different weddings on with music and gave them to the two couples they were mother and daughter and were over the moon with them
I have also done the same with my grandaughters pictures from her school prom night and put music and I did the start with my voice message to her and she as now stored it in her box of memories
I have also put all holiday photos on where I went with my sister and gave this to her and she now shows them to her friends
Its great to be able to do this on to DVDs and then can be played back it make gret viewng with family and friends and no pictures can be damaged when looking at them

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Use as screensavers
Nov 18, 2005 9:47PM PST

I use all my photos (over 1,000) as screensavers

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What I do with my photos
Nov 19, 2005 5:09AM PST

I use Flickr as my web photo host as I have Yahoo! mail beta and it works well. I also have a photostream on my Yahoo! 360 blog page for my family and friends to see. My 16 year old daughter uses Photoshop 7 to edit her photo collection. She is a great photographer!

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"Other"
Nov 20, 2005 10:06AM PST

I am a family historian and collect all of the photos that I can from my family. In addition, I take as many digital pictures as possible whenever I see any members of the family.

I save all of these photos to my computer in folders named for the various family blood lines, and share them with the other members of the family through CD's. By sennding out new CD's every couple of years to all of the various relatives, we update each other about how we look, how our kids and grandkids look.

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Mostly arrange by content and date in Photo Folders
Nov 20, 2005 11:15AM PST

I tend to feed lots of them via email to friends and relatives. Then I have a website at cbuck-country where I set them up in a story-type format whenever I can to give them purpose. I'm nearly ready to begin uploading my 2005 photos now.

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Pretty much the same thing
Nov 22, 2005 5:27AM PST

I too save and arrange them on the hard disk, sending them via mail to friends and family. My mom, however, does not believe pictures are pictures if they are not printed, so she has me print some for her Happy

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The best slideshow program
Nov 20, 2005 3:15PM PST

is JAlbum ... and it is free !!!

You will find it at:
http://jalbum.net/

As the blurb on the site says: "This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free!"

Enjoy

Daphne

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Digital Photography
Nov 21, 2005 5:05AM PST

I am the family record keeper of sorts, so I have scanned in all family photos going back several generations, including tin types. I am working on an illustrated family tree, much more interesting with photos.

Most current pictures have been put up on my family web site, where members of my family, from Calif. to NY to Fla. can see them, often within an hours after the event.

When selling items online, I send the photos to server space and then reference them from the printer ad, or by using HTML in the online ad.

I also used digital pics to document the rebuilding of a vintage motorcycle, and these pictures became the start of a web site that is now a world-wide resource for this brand of motorcycle.

When I want to print photos, I wire then to Wal-Mart and have them printed there, to be picked up an hour later.

To make movies, which use both video as well as still images, I use Pinnacle Studio 9. I haven't found any other program as intuitive as Studio, and use it even though I have had problems with earlier releases.

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Online Sales
Nov 29, 2005 5:54PM PST

My wife and our oldest daughter use a small IntelPlay digital camera to photograph dishes and costume jewelry which they market from their website and and on Ebay. It is not the best but it is good enough for now.

They have been selling from a local mall for over a year enough to pay the rent for the booth. Now, after a couple of months of learning the ropes online, they have had one successful sale. Later when they get their feet on the ground they can show me how to do it best.

I admire their tenacity to keep going until they get it right. They are plowing the money back into the business to grow.

Eventually, the wife and I plan to retire (we are about 60) and travel the USA. We plan to take the computer with us and an online service to keep our new lifestyle going a while. We are basically homebodies, so we will return to the farm to recouperate on occasions.

I am looking forward to the freedom of retirement. Right now we are paying down the debts with part time work so that will not be a worry.