One of the most appealing aspects of digital photography for many people is the ability to more easily share pictures than was possible with prints. This article gives you some tips and some links for sharing your digital pictures.
Do not email large pictures to family and friends; you will soon have everyone annoyed at you. Never send any photo files except jpegs (with a .jpg extension). If you have a digital camera this is how your files are produced. If you have a scanner make sure to convert your images to jpegs before you send them or upload them. The pictures that come from digital cameras and, often, ones that are scanned into your computer are much larger than they need to be for viewing on the Internet or attaching to emails. You must use some photo software to reduce the size first. 800 X 600 pictures or even smaller is best for this purpose. You keep the large files for printing. Windows XP will take care of this resizing for you. Just go to My Pictures folder, select a picture and click on Email this picture. In Windows Vista, go to Pictures, highlight a picture (or several), right click, choose Send to email recipient and you’ll get a choice of sizes. An even better way to share your photos is to put them up on the web and tell your friends where they are. They can much more easily view them than if you send them the files via email. It’s also much easier for them to go back to view the pictures again if they don’t have to hunt through a couple weeks of email to look for them. If you use one of the on-line photo finishers to get prints you’re probably all set. They have facilities for sending your friends an email with a link and instructions for them to view your pictures. They can even order their own prints (saving you some money). If you actually want your friends to have access to the originals (for making their own prints) be careful not all of the on-line photo finishers support original files.
You can also share pictures at these sites but the emphasis in on ordering prints. The sharing features may or may not be what you’re looking for. www.shutterfly.com www.kodakgallery.com www.dotphoto.com www.clubphoto.com www.snapfish.com
If you haven’t uploaded your pictures for printing you can still upload them to sites which specialize in photo sharing. Many of these used to be free but a lot of them went out of business. Those that remain charge a nominal fee; it’s worth it if you share a lot of photos. The best one
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