Digital Photography - Computer Photo albums

Yo Andrew and Jen,

I use this one for my albums on the Grand children - probably do what you want and it's free...

www.visimon.com/

Grrr!!!

Picasa 2, free download from Google.

You're on the rite track..As you no doubt know,your valuable pix have,to a degree,already deterorated somewhat.At first it is not noticable,like a non-medical cancer.But I can assure you,it is happening..Re color pix be they negatives or positives,the red,green,blue emulsions are re-acting and "nicotine"stains will soon appear resulting in permanent damage and de-grading the quality you have worked so hard to achive..Enough of that! To answer your mssg,try the software I use at www.iview-multimedia.com/ ..As I use both PC's (8) & Macs (4) I run all my pix on my Macs and also use the free iPhoto by Apple™..Both are magic to use are are updated on a regular basis..Problems! What are they? Never had one in the five years plus I have used them both for my 18,000 photos.Both allow keywords.(If you have a lot of pix,you need that feature.at least) iView® I believe,is also avail on PC platform..Time is running out! Please get your non-digital pix onto digital media as soon as you can then you are in control and coast along as you please.Helps? Have fun..RockyOne!MPG:8!

Andrew, the printed ones can be scanned into files also, and will probably last a lot longer that way.
I've just finished scanning around 1000 slides with a special slide scanner. Some came up well, some were marginal but at least they're not lost :))

Another good one is jalbum.

This will let you consolidate your pic's, and when your complete you can upload them to your website. (if you wish)

It won't do what picasa can do but when you have both of these, you can acheive quite a lot.

Above all they are free.

JAlbum Software

G'day Andrew,

Canon have an album program called Photo Record and it comes with Canon Printers or Cameras. I have done 3 Albums covering our last three trips. It's easy to use, you can adjust size and position of any photo in the album, add captions and decorate album to a theme. I use a comb binder so I can add route maps, information sheets, trail guides etc. Then I put add a clear cover sheet and a cardboard back cover to complete. For our Cape Trip this year I'll be doing double sided photo sheets and will be laminating each page as I had lookers spill drinks, food or drool on the photos.

It's a KISS program and it sure beats sliding photos into fixed sleeves, or putting the old photo corners in an album.

Cheers.........Rob

goodday andrew
as well as the suggestions above 1 thing i have done was to get a 100gig portable harddrive and moved all my photos and photo software to it so that i can download direct as we travel thru the laptop
i was downloading to cd but even that collection is growing rather large.before i got a digital camera just had the slr and used to get them direct to cd as well

steve

Hi Andrew,
The way I deal with the ever growing number of photos is to just store them in a folder direct to my hard drive. This folder has sub folders labeled holidays, family, fishing, etc. My camera is also a Kodak, about 18 months old and it loads the photos direct into this folder on my C drive in jpeg format. This is a very popular format and i don't think it will become obselete in a hurry. If I want to fiddle with the photo I use Mircosoft Photo editor of some other program like it. This isn't really a photo album as such, but more of a photo storage system. However it suits me because I dont have any interest in making up fancy eletronic photo albums. Instead what I do is regually copy my photo folders to cd, Holidays on one cd, Family on another, again in jpeg, and then not only do I have my photos backed up but I can also play the cd in my dvd player as a slide show. It's just like having a slide night when we were kids. I find sitting in our lounge room watching a slide show a more enjoyable way to see our photos then to be crowding around a computer screen. I hope this helps.
Regards
Steve.

Hi Andrew & Jen,

Picasa from Google on a PC, or iPhoto on a Mac are clearly what you are looking for - and make sure you think about how you might search for things in the future. Include tags for your children's names if they feature a lot, locations, dates, etc. With your digital camera, a lot of the key information is captured when you shoot (like the date for instance).

There is quite an art to doing it well.

For those with gazillions of images- last count I was at 350,000 - try Cumulus 6 which is just the same as the others, except industrial strength for massive databases.

NEXT: ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER

B A C K them all up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On well labelled high quality media (better types of CD-ROM or DVD-ROM)

TWICE! And keep one copy in a separate location that will not get hit by the same disaster.

Then you can be sure your precious memories will be kept for posterity.

Lastly, if the prints you mentioned are from a 35mm camera, I would recommend getting the negatives scanned at good high resolution, and cataloguing them with date and subject info too.

Ciao for now,
Andrew.

Just name the folder in Windows something applicable.
EG

Woods Point 20-3-06

then in that folder put a text file with all the photo information in it...
EG
Woods Point trip with Ads, etc.. we did these tracks, this many trucks, this person got bogged, this person got laid. etc. etc etc.

then burn that to 3 CDs. one at ya parents place, one at your place, and one somewhere else for safe keeping.

Hi David (David & Justine)..Hope we can solve that glich on your G-5..We had a problem a few years ago..PC that ran our biz fried the CPU..(Our fault! Lint clogged filter.Fan died.No cooling on CPU.Cooked)*..I had to throw it into Triton & do quick 1000 km trip ea way to repairs in Bris.No repairs here then,plenty now. Suggest you drop the starboard side and fully expose all the beautifully arranged innards.Magic design.You may be aware the G-5 dual has nine (9) fans,so I guess if the air supply is being restricted in any way,books,lint etc,the computor would be doing the correct thing and closing down 'till this sit is rectified.Of course,the only fans to run are those on a particular circuit which is in use on that portion of the software appl.Need info.Try www.apple.com/support/powermac/ *At least we could sit on 100+++ kph in those days..That must be why we are all deceased :-) BOL

Hi David and Justine, I reckon the best solution is a program called Picasa2 by Google. It's free and does a fantastic job , I won't even try and explain all the features but download it from here:

picasa.google.com/

Let me know what you think, I'm sure you'll love it. And it won't change or upset the original photos you have. It will also timeline all your photos for you on a Rotary Index Wheel, fantastic.