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Seven Ways For Saving Your Digital Images For Ever!
By Chris Thomas, Wed Dec 7th
So, you have taken lots of pictures with your new digitalcamera, the memory card is full, and you are wondering how tostore and archive your images. 1 Buy another memory card The method of storing your images with least effort is to buy anew memory card and keep your images on the first card. Takinginto account that memory cards are currently expensive, thisseems a costly way of archiving the images. In the longer term,however, there may be some argument for this method as memorycard prices fall, which they progressively have. However as timegoes by the digital size of images (measured in megapixels) willincreases partly offsetting this factor. 2 Transfer your images on to your computer Most if not all digital cameras come with a cable for connectingthe camera to a personal computer. The manufacturer has probablyprovided software with that cable so that you can install thesoftware on to your computer, connect the cable and transferimages from your camera onto your PC. Don’t forget, if all elsefails – read the instruction booklet! Once safely on yourcomputer hard drive, you can erase the memory of the camera andstart taking new photos all over again. However do check thatthe images have been successfully downloaded to your computerbefore you erase them! 3 Burn your images onto a CDRom Many home computers are now equipped with a CDRom writer. Thisis probably the preferred way of archiving your images for yearsto come. One word of warning though. Do not buy cheap recordableCDs – CDRs. Cheap discs are less reliable and we have found someto be problematic. We have also found that rewritable disks –those that can be written once and then overwritten – do notwork well in certain CD Drives. Best to use good quality writeonce CDRs and carefully label them, storing them in cases forprotection. In due course CDs will be replaced by DVDs providinggreater memory capacity as image files increase in size. 4 Store your images on a public web site If you are connected
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Is Your Business A Dysfunctional Family?
By Bill Knell, Wed Dec 7th
The other day I brought my mother into an appliance store topurchase a television. By the time we left with her newtelevision, she was completely disgusted. Unlike most of us, shecomes from an Read more...
to the internet you will be able to findsites on the world wide web which will store your images forposterity. Furthermore, they may let others view your images, orrestrict access to them by a password. Some sites charge forthis service. What the long term prognosis is for any of thesesites is – well – who knows. But they might be useful in theshort term. 5 Print your images at home for viewing You might want to put your images in an album to keep foryourself and to show family and friends. Photo printers areavailable for home use – either from the manufacturer of yourcamera or from another. The convenience of being able to printyour own images at home immediately will be offset by the costof consumables, which can be high, and the slow print speed ofmany home printers. Further there has been discussion regardingthe longevity of the prints made at home compared withconventional prints made on photographic paper. 6 Use a professional laboratory to make photographic prints. A more practical way of printing your images is to take yourcamera memory card or a CDRom to you local film processor forprints. You will be able to collect your printed images eitherthe same or the next day and they will be photographic printswith a very long life expectancy. The laboratory will be able tocrop your images or enlarge the full image or a section of it tofurther enhance your photo. 7 Put your pictures on to a photo gift For a lasting memento, why not put your pictures into a frame oreven get your laboratory to put them on a gist such as a mug ormouse mat. Such object will have a long life and attractinterest and attention. To see some of the possibilities when itcomes to photo gifts feel free to visithttp://www.view-link.com/photogifts.html Christopher Thomas Viewlink Ltd About the author:Christopher Thomas is both keen photographer and companydirector of Viewlink Ltd based in Amersham, Uk. The companyprovides digital photo developing for both amateur andcommercial photographers. For more articles by ChristopherThomas please visit the company website athttp://www.view-link.com
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