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Printing, Storing & Sharing Your Images

There are many options for printing digital images, whether you do it yourself on a printer at home, upload images or you visit a local hour-photo shop. Get help deciding which way to get your prints, which printers are best and how to select the right printer paper for your images. Learn how to use your images to create postcards, business cards, greeting cards, posters, tee-shirts and more.
Photoshop Express Beta Review
When Photoshop launches a free online photo editor, people pay attention. A company best known for its beloved (but pricy) photo editing software is bound to impress when it enters the online photo editing realm, right? Well, read this review of the just-launched free Photoshop service to find out why it doesn't match up to the competition.
Best Photo Image Hosting Sites
Photo image hosting sites provide a great service, making it quick, easy and fun to show off and share your digital pictures. They also serve as a crucial backup for images that are currently just sitting vulnerable on your computer's hard drive. Here is a list of some of the major photo image hosting sites, and what they offer.
Flickr
Flickr is one of the most popular image storing and sharing sites on the Web. Here is a review of the Flickr photo site features, including pros and cons, photo security, sharing capabilities, ease of use, storage space and more.
Portable Digital Photo Storage Devices
Portable digital photo storage devices are a wonderful way to back up and save images, especially if you're shooting pictures while traveling. Some of the devices can hold as many photos (maybe even more) as your home computer, and many double as DVRs, mp3 players, video players and more. They also allow you to easily show off your favorite pictures. Here is a list of top portable digital photo storage devices.
How to Watermark Your Photos
If you are sharing photos, especially if you will be posting them online or emailing them, you never know what will happen to them. Someone could take the photos for their own use, and you might never even know. While there are many ways to protect images, watermarking is probably the most effective. Here is a simple step-by-step tutorial on watermarking your photos.
How to Resize Photos for E-mail or Web: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Today's digital cameras shoot large-sized images. This is great for making prints, but it is a bad thing when you're sharing images. You don't want to bog down someone's e-mail, for instance, with oversized files. Plus, many e-mail programs won't send or receive large files. If you are posting the images to the Web, it will take too long to load and look weird in its original size. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to resize photos for e-mail or the Web.
Top Photo Storage Boxes and Organizers
The photo prints, or even CDs and DVDs packed with picture backups, can quickly get unwieldy. Don't stop shooting, but do start getting organized. A good storage box or organizer will keep your photos and discs from getting damaged or deteriorating. It can also allow you to file your photos, so that you can quickly find pictures by date or subject. Here are the top photo storage boxes and organizers.
How to Create Your Own Photo Album Web Site
One of the best ways to share your great digital images with friends and family is through your own personal Web site. You don't need to be a computer know-it-all to create a basic site to showcase an online photo album. In fact, even a novice can create a great site. You can create a wedding Web site for before, during and after pictures of the process. The same goes for a new baby. Or just have a site with several albums of family events and vacations. It's free and easy.
Share Your Photos Online
There are countless sites that allow visitors to upload photos to share with friends and family. This saves everyone the trouble of receiving large attachments by e-mail. Most sites also allow those you share the photos with to order their own prints, or even the images on coffee mugs and various other gift items. Find out about the major sites offering this service (usually for free).
How to E-mail Digital Pictures the Right Way
Some people are the bane of the Internet, sending off mass e-mails to all their family and friends that are huge and take forever to download, or they are in an uncommon file format, or they are in some other way annoying. Find out how to please instead of pester when you send your favorite digital images by e-mail.
Storing Your Digital Images
Once you have a digital camera, you eliminate the pesky need to keep track of endless prints and negative sheets. While it might be tidier to store digital images, you aren't done with organizing and storing images. Find out how to use the various methods available.
Turn Your Digital Photos into Artwork
Once you've taken that digital image, you don't just have to clean it up in your editing software and print. Have fun! With these simple steps, you can turn a basic photo into a masterpiece to share with family or hang on the wall. Use this step-by-step guide.
Canon i70 Portable Photo Printer Review
The Canon i70 Portable Photo Printer manages to print gorgeous photos, despite its compact size and light weight. If you have a Canon camera, you can connect directly to the printer and nix the computer. Find out all about this amazing little wonder.
How to Put Photos on Your Web Site
About.com's Web Design guide offers a step-by-step guide to posting your favorite digital images onto your own Web site.
Printing Digital Photos & Scans
About.com's Graphics Software guide provides key instructions on printing either digital camera images or scanned photos.
Scanning Basics 101
This site is filled with great tips on scanning images, which can be especially useful if you want to convert older film images to digital form. Even if you don't, there are helpful sections on printer resolution settings and image formats.
Digital Photo Printing Tips
Learn the basics about taking that digital camera's images and getting them down on paper. For instance, you won't get a good print off of a bad image, this article notes. It also explains the significance of printing paper selection and image editing software.

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