wangxiaodan asked:


nowledge of Digital Photo Frames

Firstly, What Is A Digital Photo Frame?

Digital photo frames display photos as digital rather than paper. Digital photography is bound to promote the development of digital photo frames all over the world due to the digital photo printing less than 35%. Digital Photo Frame is usually a direct plug in the camera memory card to display photos, of course, Digital Photo Frame along with more internal storage space will be provided as well as the external memory card function.

In short, digital photo frame is a special equipment to watch and share digital photos.

By the end of 2002, the United States San Francisco, the Pacific Digital Corporation (Pacific Digital) has released a world’s first digital photo frame, named by MemoryFrame

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Secondly, How To Classify Digital Photo Frame?

Digital Photo Frame can be generally classified into three types:   

1.Simple function digital photo frame (only jpeg format supported)   

2.Easy multi-media Digital Photo Frame (can play music and video)   

3.Advanced multi-media digital photo frame (usually in support of 802.11 wireless connections, can download pictures from the web or e-mail)  

Most digital photo frames can slideshow photographs (in general have the function adjust the time interval), some digital photo frame can also play video formats such as MPG camera film clips or MP3 audio files.

As technology advances, many of the functions are added to digital photo frame, which makes it the necessary modern home terminal figure. Such as calendar, time, alarm clock, weather, television, radio and so on.a number of advanced digital photo frame can use Bluetooth, wifi, telephone lines, download digital photos, even browse the Web.  

Thirdly, What’s The Major Components of Digital Photo Frame?

Digital Photo Frame are composed of three major components: LCD screen, PCB circuit board and frame. LCD screen can be simulated or digital, and they’re adopted to distinguish between dimensions. PCB circuit boards are the heart of the digital photo frame, because it contains the necessary software. For end-users, the frame is an important criterion. Frame materials are usually plastic or wood, some digital photo frame provides a frame replacement.  

Fourth, What Purposes Does Digital Photo Frame Get?

Digital Photo Frame is some stylish consumer electronics, is also essential home accessories. Following the fashion and warmth of digital products, digital photo frames get a wide range of uses. For instance, they can be used as business gifts, holiday gifts, souvenirs, exhibition, welfare prizes, modern furniture, wedding photography, automotive, digital photographic equipment, jewelry and other accoutrements personality. With the popularization of digital photo frame, there will certainly be more and more of the many interesting ideas for our lives dull lot of fun.

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Ziv Haparnas asked:


The photos we take are all about experiences – photos from our last trip, photos of friends and family and of places we visited. We also want to share those photos with our family and close friends and by that to share our experiences. In this article we will go over a few options for doing just that.

There are a few methods for sharing photos. Before the digital era sharing was done by printing photos and arranging them in photo albums. Then when family or friends gather they could go over those albums viewing each photo and talking about their experiences. Another way to share photos with people that were physically far away was via mail. Printed photos were put in an envelope and mailed.

The digital era made sharing photos and experiences much easier and almost instant. For example with digital photography you can share a photo at the instance it was taken with anyone in the world.

There are a few ways to sharing digital photos:

Sharing by email: Photos are computer files and like any other file they can be sent as an email attachment to any number of email recipients. To share a photo over email simply create a new email, enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the photo with, write a small description in the email body and then attach the photo files.

There are a few things to consider when sharing photos by email. Most ISPs and free email services limit the size of the attachments that can be sent. Many limit those to just a few megabytes. Some providers also limit the size of the email mailbox and thus sending a large number of big photo files can clog the recipient’s mailbox.

It is not considered ‘ok’ to email large attachments unless you personally know the recipient and he or she expects to receive such an email. It is highly recommended that you resize the photos before sending them by email. In most cases the recipient will only use the files to view the photo on the computer screen. For that purpose a photo resolution of 640X480 or 800X600 is more than enough and the reduced resolution files will be much smaller. If the recipient needs to print the photo then a high resolution version should be emailed.

Sharing using online sharing services: There are many online services that offer photo sharing for free. Using the service you can either share photos with a private group of people or share photos with the public. Sites such as www.flickr.com or www.shutterfly.com are very popular sharing sites. In addition to photo sharing they offer many other services such as photo printing. Using these services is simple: create an account with one of the services and start uploading your photos. When you’re done simply send the site’s link to whoever you want to share your photos with.

Sharing photos this way is very easy and efficient. You only need to upload the photos once and whoever you share the photos with can at their own time login to the site and view the albums. Most sites will resize the photo and reduce their resolution for faster viewing. However they will not allow the viewers to download the original full resolution file. In most cases this is not a problem as users can order prints directly from the sharing site. If they do need the original high resolution file you can always separately send it to them by email.

Sharing by FTP or other file transfer utilities: In this method the photos are just uploaded to an FTP server. The people you want to share the photos with will login to the FTP server and download the photos. This can also be done using online storage services that allow users to upload any file and then other users to download them. Similar to photo sharing services these services allow the sharing of files. They do not limit the users in downloading the full resolution photo files but they also lack the advantages of easily browsing through photo albums and quickly previewing low resolution version of the photos. Usually FTP servers are used by professionals or companies that need to share a large amount of data between them. Also professional printing services will sometime host an FPT server and have users upload full resolution photo files to this server for printing.

Sharing by burning CD/DVDs: This method is similar to the old fashion method of mailing printed photos. Instead of printing paper prints and mailing them you burn all the images for sharing on a CD (or DVD if more space is needed) and mail the CD/DVD to the people you want to share it with. This method is slow and used usually only when the amount of photos to share is very big and transferring so much data online is a hassle. An example for using this method is sending a large number of high resolution photos for a printing service

In conclusion there are many ways to share photos. For most users who simply want to share photos for viewing on the computer screen and maybe print a few photos using the online photo sharing and printing services is the best. These free services provide all the functionality most users need. Occasionally when you need to share a high resolution photo for printing you can easily send it by email.

Melanie Hansen asked:


One of the basics of scrapbooking is cropping photos. Some tend to avoid cropping, not sure of how to go about it. Others may go to the other extreme, cropping every photo. 

Looking back at my first albums, I see that all the photos were cropped, often in many different shapes. I would usually cut almost all of the background out of most of the photos. Through the years, as I have learned more about scrapbooking, and gained experience, the way that I crop photos has changed. 

I look back at those early albums and wish I hadn’t cropped out so much of some of the photos. Sometimes the backgrounds in our photos tell part of the story. I have learned that sometimes, less is more.

There are some good reasons to crop the photos for our scrapbooks. We can crop our photos to fit more on a page, and also to create visual variety that is pleasing to the eye. Let’s take a look at some of the ways we can crop photos for beautiful scrapbook pages.

Crop for Balance and Focus – We can crop photos for balance. I know I don’t always take the time to compose every shot. Kids often don’t hold still very long, making it difficult to get that perfect shot. Cropping photos can shift the focus where we want it.  Crop to Enlarge – With digital photos, this is very simple. Sometimes the subject of the photo is too small, and gets lost in the picture. If we cropped around the subject the photo would be too small. We can crop to enlarge the subject by using photo editing software or at the photo lab before the photo is printed. If you only have a printed photo, try scanning the photo and then crop before reprinting. Crop Out Distractions – Sometimes we want to keep some of the background, but distracting backgrounds can be cropped out. Some backgrounds are very busy, pulling our eye away from the subject. Maybe we don’t want the dirty dishes in the background. When photos are taken in public places we can crop other people out of the photos. Crop for Creativity – Photos can be cropped into creative shapes. This should be used very sparingly. Squares and rectangles are classic shapes that will always look pleasing. If it suits the layout, sprinkle a fun shape in here or there to add variety to a page. As a general rule one creative shape on a page is enough.

 

 Now we have looked at some of the ways we can crop our photos. Try cropping very little at first, as you arrange your page layout you can always go back and crop more. There are also some some things we don’t want to do when cropping photos.

 Instant Photos – Never crop instant photos (polaroid). The chemicals inside that were used to develop them can bleed out and ruin your scrapbook page. The layers can also come apart. If you must, scan them, print them on regular photo paper and crop them instead. If you don’t like the white border, try hiding it behind a photo frame.  Historical / Place References – Remember not to crop out all historical or place references. The places that the photos were taken tell part of the story.  Shapes – Limit cropping photos into shapes. This will tend to overwhelm the page. Sprinkling an occasional circle or oval to accent a page. Use irregular shapes sparingly.  One of a Kind Photos – Never crop a one of a kind photo. Scan these photos and crop those if you need to crop to fit in your page layout.  Heritage Photos – Avoid cropping photos taken before 1950. The paper these photos were printed on is a fiber-based paper. Cropping will cause the edges to fray and the photos to deteriorate.

 

 Keep these tips for cropping photos in mind. Soon you will be cropping with ease, and creating stunning scrapbooks.