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Malvern u3a

Malvern u3a. Camera Group - Storing and Sharing. STORING and SHARING. What’s it worth? Although the sheer proliferation of photos courtesy of mobile phones and digital cameras may have devalued them in some respects, it’s still impossible to put a price on personal photo collections.

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Malvern u3a

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  1. Malvern u3a • Camera Group - Storing and Sharing

  2. STORING and SHARING • What’s it worth? • Although the sheer proliferation of photos courtesy of mobile phones and digital cameras may have devalued them in some respects, it’s still impossible to put a price on personal photo collections. • The arrival of digital cameras generating photos as digital files has meant a move away from storage in plush leather-bound photo albums to computer hard drives, online storage and photo sharing. • One advantage of this is that the same digital file can be stored in various places at the same time (at no extra cost).

  3. STORING and SHARING • But ... how safe are your digital photos? • Accidents will happen … • … fire, flood, theft … • … and your hard drive will ‘bite the dust’ one day. • Digital photos are a wonderful invention, but … • … they can be lost in an instant … • … so be serious about your storage and have multiple back-ups. • Save your files in a range of locations including your home computer’s hard drive, a back-up drive and online cloud storage.

  4. STORING and SHARING • Hard drive and disk storage • The perfect starting point for storage. • However, photos can consume a lot of disk space so check your machine has the necessary capacity. • But, one hard drive is not safe enough. A decent external hard drive with one terabyte of space will cost around £90-£100. (Enough space to save up to 400,000 photos.) • Have a regular back-up routine or built in system. On Macs this comes as ‘Time Machine’; PCs have a back-up application within Control Panel. (Drive-to-drive syncing.) • Also, back-up to CDs or DVDs. Recommendation is that CD-R discs are the most secure in terms of long term storage. However, they are only 700Mb. Photo-DVDs can be bought - use DVD+R.

  5. STORING and SHARING In the cloud - Online storage As well as back-up services, you can upload your pictures to many different cloud-based photo sharing and storage sites. • Examples include: • Flickr (Yahoo) • Free option restricts you to uploading 300MB of photos per month. • The ‘Pro’ service removes the restrictions and costs $24.95 (around • £16) per year. Largest photo sharing site. • Picasa (Google+) • Some free space (1Gb) and additional storage space can be bought. • Windows Live Sky Drive • A free service from Microsoft for users of the Windows operating • system offering 7Gb of storage space. (Also now for Mac).

  6. STORING and SHARING • In the cloud - Online storage • Examples include: • Dropbox • Very widely used for all kinds of online file storage and sharing. • 2Gb free, but you can earn more free space by having friends join. • iCloud (Mac) • Some free space (5Gb) and additional storage space can be bought. • Amazon Cloud Drive • Also has 5Gb free space which it says is the equivalent of 2000 • photos. (Additional space is available at £6 upwards.) • Need to install a desktop app.

  7. STORING and SHARING • Good ‘old fashioned’ prints • Inks used in digital printers are improving ... • ... but prints do seem to fade. • Cost can be an issue - especially at very high quality. • With large numbers to print use a commercial processor (in store or on-line). Your choice - Boots, Jessops, PhotoBox ... will depend on your preference as to look of prints.

  8. Printing • Albums • High street stores or on-line. • Recommended on line suppliers are ... • Blurb http://www.blurb.co.uk • Albelli http://www.albelli.co.uk • Canvas • High street stores or on-line. • The Original Canvas Company http://www.originalcanvascompany.co.uk • is a good on-line supplier. STORING and SHARING

  9. Printing • Acrylic • High street stores or on-line. • The quality appears to be very similar from both, • so as with prints it is a matter of personal choice. • Novelty prints - really sharing rather than storing • Mugs, jigsaws, posters, t-shirts ... anything you can print on! • Have a look at www.photoimageart.co.uk for ideas you • probably wouldn’t come up with in a month of Sundays! STORING and SHARING

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