Archive for December, 2008

The many benefits of a free online photo album

If you have never uploaded your photographs to the Internet before, to both store and share, you may be wondering exactly what is a free online photo album. In order to understand what it is, you should know how they can be used, how their contents can be shared, and the additional benefits of a digital photo album.

A free online photo album is a way for you to electronically store photographs in a secure environment. For instance, if you have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of pictures stored on the hard drive of your computer, or stored on CDs you had made when your photos were developed or when you had digital prints made, you can upload those to a special internet site to protect and store for as long as you want. Computers can crash, hard drives can become corrupted, and CDs can be scratched. But when you store your photographs in a free online photo album, you are assured that you will never lose the photographs that are most meaningful to you. Don’t take chances with your precious photography – instead store it safely and securely online in a photo album.

In addition to using a digital photo album to store all of your photography, you can also use your album to share your favorite pictures with friends and family. Instead of creating prints and mailing them around the world, simply direct your loved ones to the website where your album is located and they can see all of your favorite shots. Instead of guessing which pictures they might enjoy having their own prints made from, they can select exactly which pictures to store to their own computers, to have printed out, or to have placed on a variety of products like mugs and calendars. Take out the guesswork and simply share your entire free online photo album with anyone who might enjoy seeing the photographs that you include.

If you run a blog or a website, you can also use your album to store the images you want to display on your site. Instead of taking up storage space and bandwidth to host images directly through your blog or website, simply pull the images from your digital photo album. In addition, you can pull images from your album to use for any internet activities in which you might participate, including bulletin boards or chat groups.

Additional benefits of using a free online photo album include the amount of security available for your pictures. You can choose exactly who will be allowed to view your photographs by setting your album’s security levels and deciding with whom to share the contents of your album. In addition to the security benefits is the benefit of being able to have access to a variety of gifts and gadgets that you can order to be printed with your favorite photographs from your album.

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Creating Free Online Photo Albums

There are many web sites that offer free online photo storage options. These web sites understand that storing your photos online is a great way to keep track of them. Most web sites that offer free online photo storage allow you to place your photos into an online photo album if you wish.

Creating free online photo albums classifies your photos into categories that you designate and then allows you to accessorize those categories or albums for beautifully unique presentations of your decorating style. Free online photo albums are a great way to share your photos with others without incurring any cost other than the time it takes you to set up the photo album and then to invite others to view it.

When you are ready to create a free online photo album, the process is relatively simple for most sites. First you need to upload your photos to the web site. It doesn’t matter what order you upload them in as you can rearrange them once they are on the web site. For most sites, it also doesn’t matter what equipment or media source they come from. This means that you can upload those photos from the digital camera, a flash drive, a memory stick or even from other web sites, so long as you upload them all to the web site where you are planning to create your free online photo albums. Usually the web site will subsequently help you, through the use of its wizard or online help program, to get all of your photos into the same file type such as .jpg.

Once you have your photos uploaded, some web sites have auto fillers for their photo albums. This means that you can select the group of photos you want to compile into a photo album and then simply click on the auto filler option and the web site’s program will file the pictures to the photo album for you.

A thoughtful part of creating free online photo albums includes how you organize your photo albums such as for their naming conventions and what photos you will store in which photo albums. Make sure that your photo album names give you an idea of what photos are stored inside the album. That way you don’t have to go searching in every photo album for one particular photo or group of photos.

Consider having a “Miscellaneous” photo album for photos that are not categorized into any other photo album. This will give you one centralized location even for the photos that don’t need an entire album of their own. Try using naming conventions for photos in the Miscellaneous folder that have a date in the name so that you can be reminded at a glance when the photo was taken and hopefully also be reminded of what took place on that date so you don’t have to open the photo to view it. Your albums should be fun to locate and use.

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