Every significant time of year generates a large amount of photos and in the past, these memories would be developed and stored in a book album or frame.  But since the popularization of digital photography, which makes it easy to take hundreds of photos without running out of film, many of these digital images are often neglected or forgotten entirely.  Here are a few suggestions that can you help manage your pictures so that they can more easily be shared.

1. Print them out

Instead of taking photos to a special location to have them developed, you can simply print them at home.  Your every day printer will work, but printing a lot of pictures will drain your ink cartridge easily.  If you wish to print photos regularly then I would suggest getting a photo printer, which uses a more specialized ink to print better quality pictures.  There are printers that only print 4×6 photos, but there are also printers like the Kodak all-in-one printer, which can also be used for printing documents and different sized photos.

2. Display in a digital device

If you don’t want to be bothered with printing, but still want to share your pictures then there are many digital display options.  Photos can be uploaded and displayed on TV screens, or just have your computer display them in a digital photo album.  One of my favourite devices to display digital pictures are digital photo frames.  Picture can be uploaded to the frame and they will display like a normal picture frame only they can also cycle through many photos like a slideshow.

3. Store them on a backup drive

If you upload your photos to your computer, it can be difficult to keep them organized and safe.  It’s always wise to backup your digital files, but transferring your photos to external hard drives is great opportunity to organized organize them.  And if you have multiple computers or devices that have internet access, you can connect your hard rive to your local network connection so that your photos can be accessed on multiple devices.

Did you know?

The first attempt at a digital camera was by Kodak in 1975, which was an 8 lb device that took .01 mega pixel images.

-Janel

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