Eleven Exciting Things You Can Do With Your Digital Camera Photos

You have a digital camera and enjoy taking photos/photos'>photos where ever you go. You put your photos/photos'>photos on the computer at appropriate moments like after a holiday or event. But what can you do with these photos?

You can:

1. Leave them alone and do nothing apart from look at them from time to time.

2. Edit and enhance them using programs like Picasa, Picture It, photoshop, Kodak or any other suitable program you may have. Doing this enables you to remove red eye, crop out unwanted areas, brighten up a dark section or entire photo and more. You can even add text and backgrounds to make them specific to various aspects of life eg wedding, birthday, beach etc.

3. Create slide shows or folders on the computer specific to what you want. If you have an external hard drive then you can transfer and sort out photos into topics, on it because photos take up space on your computer and can slow it down.

4 Back up your photos by burning them on CDs and DVDs every seven years to keep uo with the advancement in computer technology.

5. Print your photos out either using your own printer or make use of the specials at the shops and print them out using ther printing equipment.If you do this you can possibly do it straight from your camera, or from a memory stick or CD / DVD once the data is put on them.

6. Create photo album with your hard copies. You could be extra creative and try scrapbooking.

7. Create a photo book of something special like a holiday, wedding. new baby. This is great to give away for a gift or keep yourself ( or both!! )

There are special programs you use for this eg photostyler. So you need the required software to download. I got mine from the local chemist but you can download them from sites on the computer. Basically you create the 20 or more pages ( your choice ) one page at a time using a kind of powerpoint application where you can add backgrounds, text, change positions of the photos and more. You save it and the organise the production of the hard copy by burning it onto a CD to take down to your local chemist for processing. The book will come back to them then for you to pick up.

These programs enable you to also use your photos to create personalised mugs, calenders,posters, stationary. What a great idea for gifts.

8. Create a mind movie around the idea of the law of attraction, which requires a power point kind of software to do. A mind movie consists of a movie of photos set to words and music. If you are keen to find out more go to mindmovies.com

9. Put your photos on various places like Facebook, blogs, websites, flickr to show others.

10. Sell things either second hand or new on online auction sites like ebay and TradeMe.

11. You can earn a little extra money by creating your own online stores on sites like on cafepress ( look up cafepress.com ) and zazzle ( look up zazzle.com ). The items you will be selling range from apparal to mugs to stationary to other gift ideas. The idea is that you put your own photos ( or art works ) on these items and then keep the difference between the wholesale price and retail price. Actually the proceedure is all done online. So you just have to uplad your photos onto your selected item and your product is then created. You get given a link which you can put on any website, blog etc for the advertising of your shop to get traffic. When people want to buy your item they will do it directly through cafepress or zazzle and your set up account will be credited. Just look up the respective sites for more information.

So as you can see there are eleven exciting things you can do with your digital camera photos once you have enjoyed taking the everlasting shots. In fact you could do these things with your film camera photos if you scan the photos onto your computer with the exception of point 6 and 1.

-By: Hilary Daglish

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