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Sharing Digital Photos
Friday, November 20, 2009
By: Rachel Davis
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Gone are the days of fighting over duplicate prints and waiting an endless week for
my memories to be developed. With my new digital camera, sharing photos is a
snap. Now just a day after my sisters’ wedding, I’ve downloaded all my photos
and am about to email pictures to my friends and family. And I’ve received
several emails with all of their photos.
With the invention of digital photography, there are also countless options on
sharing photos. Here’s a brief overview:
- Through Email
Most of us are already familiar with how to communicate over email,
so it makes sense to share photos this way. The problem with sharing
photos this way is that most are too big to send over email. Popular
email accounts, such as Hotmail and Yahoo, often limit the inbox size
to 10 MB. If you sent just 2-3 large pictures, you could clog up your
friends’ email and cause chaos on both ends.
- Online Photo Albums
This is another popular choice for sharing photos. These services allow
you to upload photos and allow people to view them. However they’ve also
got problems. First it takes too much time. There’s the time need spent
learning how to upload and set up your photos. Then there’s time spent
in actually uploading your photos. And once you send it off, all of
your friends and family have to learn how to use it as well.
Second, most online photo albums encounter a privacy issue because they are
hard to restrict access to, so many people can view your photos!
So what's the solution?
I think the answer is to compress photos (which is technically called zipping).
With zipping you can squish your pictures and share photos via email (which people
are already familiar with). A small zip file houses all of your photos and can
be attached to an email. There are lots of products in this category, so beware-
most are made specifically for business users and can be quite confusing.
My favorite of the bunch is called SnapZip, which is made by Winferno Software.
This easy to use program squishes your photos up to 5 times smaller and makes
them a snap to email. What I like about SnapZip are the built in Wizards that
guide you through the whole process and instantly opens an email for you to
conveniently email pictures. This means there’s no learning curve, which for
someone like me, who has a busy schedule, is a huge benefit.
After my email (with my compressed pictures) is sent, my friend can easily open
the file (the recipient doesn’t need to have SnapZip installed). And because
my photos are compressed there’s no worry of long download times, clogged
inboxes, etc.
Digital photography and programs like SnapZip have made sharing photos a
snap and a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. So now I can
concentrate on more important things like what to do with my sister and new
brother in laws classic cake in face photo.
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