What do you do with the pictures you take?

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Hopefully this is the correct forum to post this in. I scrapbooked for 2 years and didn't like it so I stopped.

Now I put my photos into photo albums which allows me to also put in some fun stuff like resort maps from Disney or special tickets from events. That's worked well.

I just got back from a solo trip to Disney. I took a ton of pictures and I love quite a few of them. I have been able to narrow my pictures that I want to print from 1000 to 588 and am still working on that. So many of them are from the Flower and Garden festival which I've never attended before.

But - that's still a heck of alot of pictures to get printed even if we do look through our photo albums alot.

So what do you do with the pictures you take?

 

[annnewjerz]

The unfortunate truth about most of mine is that I take them, edit them and then post them to my SmugMug never to do anything with them again.

For our trip to WDW that's coming up, I plan on making a photo book instead of my usual photo album with written captions. Rather than putting in a description of what each thing is, I plan on making it more like a coffee table book filled with photos rather than photos and words.

Two sites that seem to be well-liked are blurb.com and mypublisher.com. I just made a photo book containing pictures that I took a a bridal shower as a wedding gift for the couple and made a 60 page hard cover photo book on blurb.com for around $28. There are formats that allow you to use more than one picture per page (like a grid of photos on each page, 3 vertical and 3 horizontal - 9 total) so if you wanted to still have them printed but save on costs that might be a good way to go. You could do one large picture of something you liked at the F&G Festival on the left page, and then nine smaller photos of things relating to the F&G Fest. on the right.

HTH!
Ann

 

[jrc-elpaso]

I've used Picaboo to make a photobook of our trip to Alaska last summer and it turned out great. The software is free and there are tons of page layouts and backgrounds to use. The only downside is that you can't modify the page layouts. I'm thinking of trying Smilebooks for our WDW trip in September. Again the software is free - and the page layouts can be modified in an infinite number of ways. Move the pics around - change the shape - add text wherever you want, etc. I may make a small book of general photos sometime this summer to see what the quality is like - I think it will be comparable to the Picaboo one.

 

[Gdad]

I enjoy posting mine on Flickr. It has an active social aspect with interest groups for sharing, commenting, etc. And it links with Facebook so friends and family can see when I upload new pictures they may want to look at.

 

[wenrob]

Traditional scrapping or digi scrapping? What is it that you didn't like? If you did traditional, maybe give digi a try. I scrap (digi) the pics that I keep looking at over and over and the others kind of are on their own, lol.

 

[pointandshoot]

I can frame so I have some in my office and home. I sometimes use an image as a background for framing pins.

http://webhosting.web.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://www.dizframes.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/space.jpg&target=tlx_picm3qf&title=Mission Space

Some are in photo books. Some are given as gifts. My wife scraps so a few are used in her hobby. Sadly, many sit on a drive. Digital is awesome but creates more content than one can manage. I edit and delete with extreme prejudice.

Chuck

 

[Photoguy]

If you go to Ritz/Wolf Camera on Tuesdays and Wednesdays they have 6 cent 3.5x5 glossy prints. You can print out alot of photos for really cheap...might be good for scrapbooking.

Personally I think the best things to happen to photography have been going digitial and the internet. Back when everyone did actual prints you'd slap them in an album, look at them once or twice and that was it. And even worse...slides! Who didn't get tortured sitting thru your aunt and uncle's vacation slides? But the internet has made photos fun again. People actually enjoy looking at their friends photos when posted on Myspace or Facebook. I don't know why, maybe because you can post comments, but for some reason everyone wants to see your pictures posted on the net but you couldn't PAY them to look thru an album! Anyone else notice this?

 

[lap3]

I actually store mine on a 1TB external hard drive.

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

Personally I think the best things to happen to photography have been going digitial and the internet. Back when everyone did actual prints you'd slap them in an album, look at them once or twice and that was it. And even worse...slides! Who didn't get tortured sitting thru your aunt and uncle's vacation slides? But the internet has made photos fun again. People actually enjoy looking at their friends photos when posted on Myspace or Facebook. I don't know why, maybe because you can post comments, but for some reason everyone wants to see your pictures posted on the net but you couldn't PAY them to look thru an album! Anyone else notice this?

Some of my most prized possessions is the old photo album I inherited from my granparents that have old black and white photos in it from when they were kids back in the 1920's. I love photos in frames and had a ton of albums. I also am guilty of uploading and leaving it on Smugmug. I wish I had unlimited space in my house. I would print them all out and make tons of albums. It's all about making memories...

 

[jann1033]

most of mine are just online or in a external drive. occasionally i print out one or two or email one or two.
i have always loved looking at old photos though, guess my great grandkids will need a computer to see mine

 

[boBQuincy]

I post them to DisBoards, of course!

Some get printed, matted, and framed to hang in a rotating gallery around the house. A lot of our photos go into slide shows. Many are posted on our web site. Others are digi-scrapped online and the finished layouts/pages are printed to go in a scrapbook.

Some will eventually hang in a noted museum but none have asked me for any photos yet.

 

[tripodjw]

I can frame so I have some in my office and home. I sometimes use an image as a background for framing pins.

http://webhosting.web.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://www.dizframes.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/space.jpg&target=tlx_picm3qf&title=Mission Space

Some are in photo books. Some are given as gifts. My wife scraps so a few are used in her hobby. Sadly, many sit on a drive. Digital is awesome but creates more content than one can manage. I edit and delete with extreme prejudice.

Chuck

That background for pins is a absolutely brilliant idea. of course i'd seen the pin sets already framed but never thought of using one of my pics to do this.

Will keep this in mind for my forthcoming trip. Thanks for the idea.

 

[scoot241]

Before I had an SLR, I would load all my pictures on my storage drive, make copies and adjust the ones I wanted to print in Photoshop, print a bunch every so often to put into albums, and post a few on the Internet.

Now I load all my RAWs onto the storage drive, import them into Lightroom, adjust the pictures as needed, export to JPG, and post to Internet and/or print them.

All of my pictures, in addition to being on my storage drive, are backed up to an external drive.

By the way, I highly recommend two drives, or at least two partitions, in your computer. One drive holds Windows (or your OS of choice) and all of your programs, while the other holds all of your files and data (documents, movies, music, etc.). This way, if something happens to Windows, you can just wipe that partition and reinstall without having to worry about losing much (if any) data.

 

[Duckfan]

I take a lot of pictures now too. I usually take about 500+ pictures on a vacation. Then I put them on my computer to look at. I delete any really bad ones. Usually I pick about 200 (yes that is still a lot) and print them and have a dedicated photo album for that trip. Then I back them up to an external drive. Yep, I am double photo nut.

 

[Iwant2BAprincess]

Guilty as charged. I am a scrapbooker but I take such a large volume I am behind on printing them. My pc is visible in my house so they are always on display as the screen saver though. (Yes, I have them backed up too)

 

[DopeyDave]

My pc is visible in my house so they are always on display as the screen saver though.

That was going to be my suggestion... use your pictures from your most recent trip as a screen saver slide show until your next trip!

Another thing I did was buy an iPod Touch, primarily as a photo album. I can carry 'photo albums' from 6-8 trips (each with 500-1000 pictures) on an 8GB iTouch. I can usually include a whole digital copy of a movie and lots a music besides. You never know when you'll want to show people pictures from your Alaska cruise, or Tokyo DisneySea, etc. Wait'll I get back from my Viva Italia ABD!!

 

[handicap18]

I upload many of mine to my smugmug site to share with family and friends (and also as another backup).

Mostly however I use them as a screen saver on my computer. Our computer is in the living room and visable to the whole room. I have approx 3000 images that the screen saver uses. It changes a new picture every 7 or 8 seconds. The kids love it and also when we have company over they love looking at it too.

eta:
Also with the one's that came out real good and I really really like I will enlarge them anywhere from 8x12 to 20x30 and matt and frame them to hang on the walls around the house.

 

[ImMarcik]

I upload many of mine to my smugmug site to share with family and friends (and also as another backup).

Mostly however I use them as a screen saver on my computer. Our computer is in the living room and visable to the whole room. I have approx 3000 images that the screen saver uses. It changes a new picture every 7 or 8 seconds. The kids love it and also when we have company over they love looking at it too.

eta:
Also with the one's that came out real good and I really really like I will enlarge them anywhere from 8x12 to 20x30 and matt and frame them to hang on the walls around the house.

What kind of screen saver program do you use?

 

[handicap18]

What kind of screen saver program do you use?

I use gPhotoshow (I use the free version). Very easy to use. You can also add music if you'd like. Lots of transitions. Also you can chose more than one folder. I have 2 folders on 1 hard drive for the screen saver. 1 is just Disney Pictures and the other is all other pictures.

 

[mtdewlarissa]

i have digital picture frame so i use some there. i also give the good ones for xmas gifts with a nice frame and add new photos the next year.