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Digital Photo Albums Need Digital Back-Up

April 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Part of our most cherished memories are stored in digital photo frames.  Back in the old times, processing film from a camera was something of a chore.  One had to take your roll of film to trained professionals and sit calmly for a few days before they became ready to go, and one also had to pay for it.  Nowadays, most cameras are digital and the pictures are simple to develop by yourself.  All you need to do is load your best pictures into a electronic photography album also known as a digital photo album.

Digital photo albums are great, because they are basically photo frames that can store a multitude of digital photographs.  You could prop one up on your desk at home as you would an old fashioned picture frame, but instead of a single picture you will be treated to an entire timed interval slideshow.  You will either transfer pictures into the digital photo album directly from a USB thumb drive, or take them from your computer.  Most digital photo albums come with protectors so the device will not get scratched or broken, and they also include a rechargeable battery pack.

The most appealing trait of the digital photo album is the simple factor.  Old school picture albums were very fragile and difficult to maintain after a few years of wear and tear, and if a photograph was gone it was lost for good.  The digital photo albums can be easily reloaded without causing wear on the photographs themselves, as they can always be re-uploaded from the flash drive, a computer CD drive, or from the album itself.  Typically,most digital photo albums can display many more photos than the bland old fashioned album (some digital models can store up to 10,000 pictures).  If you still keep beloved paper photographs, you can have them uploaded into a digital album.

As exciting and convenient as digital photo albums are we must not forget that digital photo albums need digital back-up to ensure that the digital images are protected and safely preserved.

live.pirillo.com – Last year, my parents lost a lot of digital photos in a hard drive crash.  It was very tragic, because they had not backed up any of their digital photo albums.  They had the Picasa software to help them with the backup, but I had never explained how to use it. I have apologized many times. Picasa is now a free program, and can help save your photos, should some disaster or failure ever occur. This video was originally shared on blip.tv by l0ckergn0me with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

 

Article by Eric Vaknin

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A Digital Photo Album Will Help You Remember Your Pets Forever

December 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you’re a pet owner, then you know all about the special bond you have with your pets.  They give us unconditional love, and ask for hardly anything in return except for a safe place to live, food and water.

Here are three tips for taking wonderful photos of your pets and proudly displaying them in a digital photo album.

Back To Nature

There’s nothing quite like seeing an animal in its natural environment.  For your pet, that could be the couch, backyard, your bed or wherever your pet’s favorite spot.  Try to capture your pet in as many natural positions as possible, using natural light.  Use of a flash could disturb them out of whatever cute pose they’re in.

With natural light, you will also avoid problems such as red eye or over exposure.  Also, you’ll catch them where they’re most comfortable and less likely to move.

Keeping the photo natural may mean going to them and getting at their level.  If your cat is perched on top of a ledge, stand on a step stool.  If you’re dog is poking his nose out from under the bed, get down on your stomach and get as close as possible.

Capture Their Character

Every animal has its own personality.  Sometimes, they don’t like to reveal it to strangers, so that’s why it’s important to capture it in photographs for your digital photo album.  A great way to capture your pet’s personality is by keeping their eyes in focus, and making their eyes the focal point of a photograph.

If your cat always yawns after waking up from a nap, keep a camera handy and capture the moment. If they’re the more playful type, bounce a ball or roll a piece of string in front of them and capture them hopping around, having fun.

Capture Them In A Posed Shot

Now, there’s a time and place for doing silly human things with your pet – like dressing your dog up in pink ruffles or your cat in a studded collar.  When you do, make sure your camera is close at hand!  Posed pictures can be great fun to look at years down the road – and most times, the pets don’t mind the attention at all.

Another way to get a posed shot is right after a bath.  Often, this is an unpleasant task for the both of you, but you can at least make it a little better for you by getting a picture of your pet all clean.  Or, maybe you want to get a cute picture of your normally fluffy dog with his hair all matted down and wet.

Photos are such a wonderful way to share the joy of having a pet.  You can show them anytime you want to relatives and friends.  And when you have a digital photo album filled with wonderful photos, you’ll keep the memories of your pet alive forever.

So keep these tips in mind next time you decide to take a photo of your pet – and remember to give them their favorite treat!

Article by Matt Smolsky

Matt Smolsky writes for a variety of websites, including Hoorray, a photo sharing site that offers the quickest and easiest way to build a free online photo album, as well as free online photo storage.

 

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Digital Photo Albums

November 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Digital photographs have become extremely popular nowadays due to their inherent advantages over the more traditional sorts of photographs.  They can be viewed and used immediately after they have been taken – no need to wait out long film development times thanks to the fact that they require no further development unless they need to be tweaked somehow.  They can also be shared and enjoyed almost instantaneously thanks to the pervasiveness of internet connections and the wide range of equipment that can be connected over the internet or more localized wireless connections such as Bluetooth.  And thanks to the compressibility of files and the ever-dropping prices of storage media, thousands and even millions of digital pictures are far easier to store – in digital albums – than printed pictures.

Digital photo albums have a definite and tangible advantage over actual physical albums that store printed pictures. Firstly, due to the fact that storage media capacity is increasing while its price is dropping, it is becoming ever easier to store large amounts of high-quality pictures, and in digital albums as large as desired, on even a tiny flash disk or memory card.  This is possible even if the pictures stored in that disk or card are of the highest resolution and the highest quality possible or desirable.  By comparison, a physical printed picture album can only contain so many pictures before it becomes too large and/or heavy, and thus too unwieldy to be brought around easily.

Digital photo albums can easily be modified or tweaked to suit the needs or tastes of their recipients or viewers. Pictures can be increased or decreased in size very easily to ease viewing or for viewing on large monitors or TVs, or for high resolution printing purposes.  By comparison, it is impossible for users of physical picture albums to do anything similar with the pictures they view – they would have to digitize them first using a document scanner and then manipulate the images they derive by doing so.

It can be equally easy for viewers or users of digital albums to do something as drastic as changing the formatting of the album itself and selecting another format or template that suits them better. Digital photo albums can easily be re-sized and cropped according to the recipients’ changing needs.  Depending on the format of the album, it can even be easy for users to make use of pictures stored inside digital albums for their own purposes.  The same cannot be said of albums using traditional pictures, which cannot be changed in the same way.  Such a change can only be effected by purchasing a new album and painstakingly transferring the pictures to it one at a time.

A digital photo albums’ advantage over printed picture albums is so great as to make the comparison almost pointless.  However, there is one advantage a printed picture holds over a digital one: there is currently no digital substitute for a printed picture stored in one’s wallet, which can be taken out and utilized immediately when the need suddenly arises.  Mano Tomas M&G Production Wedding Photography Videographer http://www.mgproduction.ca

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Using Microsoft PowerPoint To Create Digital Photo Albums

November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you want to create an impressive and useful digital photo album you might want to consider Microsoft PowerPoint.  A PowerPoint photo album is just a presentation that helps you store and display these photos in a digital way.

Advantages of making a  digital photo album with Microsoft PowerPoint include…

  1. PowerPoint is available on most computers.  You don’t need to buy other software to make a digital photo album.  It is easy and cost-effective to do it with PowerPoint.
  2. Show your photos according to the sequence you like, make your memories more beautiful.
  3. Besides photos, you can also add effects such as attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds, specific picture layouts and more into your PowerPoint digital photo album.
  4. A digital photo album that is made in PowerPoint is easy for wide sharing.

Below are the step to follow to create an attractive digital photo album with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

1. Open PowerPoint. On the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.

 

2. Insert pictures. Click File/Disc button.  Choose pictures you want to include in the album from folders on your hard drive.  You can import several pictures to the album at a time.

In the photo album dialogue box, you will see the selected pictures in the Picture in Album list.  You can view each picture by clicking it.  And you can also change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button.  Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.

3. Create album layout. Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like.  By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.

4. Create title and subtitle for your album. After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album.  Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.  Display Slide 2, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for this slide.

5. Edit the photo album. On the Insert tab, click the Photo Album arrow, and then click Edit Photo Album.  In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, under Picture Options, select Captions below All pictures box, and then click Update.  Now you can edit the file name below each picture with a suitable caption.

6. Apply a theme to your album. On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.  Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer.

You have now finished making your own PowerPoint digital photo album. Want to e-mail it to your friends or colleague?  Want to share it with others?   Below are a few tips about how to do this.

1. E-mail your photo album to others

Maybe you will find that the photo album is in a huge size due to the mountainous images added in it, and you can’t send it properly via e-mail.  In order to reduce the size of it, you can use compressed pictures in your photo album.

Open bitmap image with a program that converts images and save the image in one of the following graphic file formats: jpg, gif, tif, wmf.  Once your image has been saved under another format, you can reinsert it into your photo album.

Here is an article tells how to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint

2. Share your photo album with others

You can upload your beautiful photo album to some online sharing websites, such as YouTube.  Let more people enjoy it or let your friends view your photo album online.

Convert your Photo album to a certain format that YouTube accepts.  Then upload it with your YouTube account.

Tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter

It helps you easily convert your photo album to WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG formats that can be accepted by YouTube. After the conversion, you can directly upload it.

3. Keep your photo album for permanent store

The photo album you make maybe valuable and meaningful.  In order to store it and prevent it from being edited by others, so far the best way I know maybe is to record it on a DVD disc.  As we know things stored in a digital way could be easily lost.

Use some professional tool to help you burn your photo album to DVD such as the PowerPoint to DVD tool from Acoolsoft.

To view the finished PowerPoint digital photo album is an enjoyable thing.  The process of making it is also interesting.  So, when are you going to create your next photo album?  Very soon, I presume.

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