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Photo Albums
Photo albums are the traditional way of storing your photos,
including Halloween
photographs. There are many types of photo albums to be found from the
usual book type to photo blocks to the flap type that can hold up to
300 pictures. These are simple books used for filing photographs and
usually don't have any space to record dates, people or places. Some
can be found in higher end department stores that include a space
along the binder for adding info about the photos filed.
While a photo album is fine for storing away photos to keep them
from getting dirty, dusty and finger printed, you
might want to try your hand at something more creative. With
the advent of digital photography and digital cameras becoming less
and less expensive, going digital makes sense! Cameras range from
very inexpensive key ring cameras and digital cameras for kids all
the way up to very high end, expensive digital cameras. You can also
buy docking stations that print your photos out on the spot. You can
take your camera to almost any place film is developed and use the
digital picture center to print out your photos there. You can also
load them into your computer and use your existing printer to print
your photos.
Digital Photo
Albums
Also called Digital Photo Frames, this is the latest way to display your
digital photos. They range in size from one's that will
fit on your keychain to large desktop and wall mountable versions.
Keychain versions are very compact and can usually store from fifty
to seventy-five pictures.
Desktop and wall
mountable versions range from a few inches in size up to a whopping
fifteen inches. The better digital photo albums have a USB
connection for transferring your pictures from your computer to the
digital photo album. Some play
slideshows of your photos set to change every few seconds and even
include playing MP3 music in the background.
One of the better desktop models is
Fuji's "Slim 7-inch Widescreen LCD Digital Picture Frame". It has a
480 x 240 resolution and supports standard JPEG images, plus a
variety of video file formats. To move your pictures and video from
your computer you can use your USB port or a flash/memory card. It
even comes with a hand-held remote control and built-in clock and
calendar.
Most all digital frames use an SD Memory
card to hold the photos. Standard size is 1 gigabyte. This size card
will hold more photos then you'll ever want to show!
Online Photo Albums
There are a number of general purpose online photo album services
available. These sites allow you to upload you favorite Halloween
pictures to a personal photo gallery of your own. They allow you to
create different folders to keep pictures in so you can have, for
instance, a Halloween folder, a Christmas folder, a vacation fold,
etc.
This type of service
works well if you have lots of friends and family scattered all over
the country or over seas. You just send them the address and they
can all go check out your latest batch of photos! |