Tag Archives: Digital photos

ScrapbookPictures.com

Our pictures are the most precious part of most of our scrapbook albums. So I’m sure that you take serious consideration about who is going to process and print your photos. I have recently come across ScrapbookPictures.com and I am impressed with all that they have to offer. The first thing that peaked my interest was the amount of different sized prints you can order. They can print your photos as small as 2 X 2 inches. How fun is that? They can also do poster sizes up to 30 X 40 inches and almost everything in between. The pricing … Continue reading →

Making Backups of Digital Picture Files

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Nicole, over at the scrapbooking blog, did a nice four part series on organizing and storing photos. Her articles had to do with prints of photos. But what do you do if you have digital prints? You can just store them on your computer’s hard drive, right? I mean, I have a 60 GB hard drive. Isn’t that for storing lots of digital pictures? While it is true that a large hard drive is good for working with photos, it is not the only place that you should save your pictures. Backing up your hard drive is good practice, and … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Arranging your pictures

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Now that you have organized and selected the pictures you want to use in your digital slideshow, you are ready to arrange and edit your pictures. If you missed the beginning of this series on creating a slideshow of your digital pictures, you can find it here. Arranging your pictures After selecting the pictures you want to use, they will appear in the timeline across the bottom of the program window. You can see in the screenshot below, I have selected five photos for my slideshow. Unless you took the time to order your pictures beforehand, you may want to … Continue reading →

Digital photo slideshows – Microsoft Photo Story 3

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What do you do with all of the digital photos you’ve taken? It is easy to let them sit on your computer’s hard drive for months without a single human eye ever seeing them. You could run down to your local convenience store or photo shop and get prints made. You could even print them out at home using a color inkjet printer. If you really want to show your friends that you are tech savvy (of course you are after regularly reading this blog), might I suggest putting your photos into a digital slideshow. You can easily make a … Continue reading →