Thursday, February 10, 2005
The Digital Shoebox
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"The pictures of my childhood are in envelopes, and there are piles and piles of them. There are so many of them, that most have never found their way to any album. Baby pictures, toddler Christmases, family vacations, and gatherings comprise but a few themes of the photos; and they are all priceless to me and my family. However, they have yet to be assembled into something organized as it is too overwhelming a project. Enter the digital revolution. Digital cameras are now common worldwide, surpassing film camera sales, and our new memories are being stored digitally. The majority of the pictures I take go from the camera, to the compact flash memory card, and finally to the "My Pictures" folder on my hard drive. Only a handful of pictures ever get printed. Every three megapixel picture is a 500 kilobyte jpeg file stored in a dated folder. And with the unlimited "free film" effect of digital cameras, I now take and save more pictures than ever."
I try and back all my photos up on DVDs and I do use Photoshop Elements 3 to organize them, but I'm still asking for trouble. I save more than I need to and it is starting to become trouble as I search for photos taken in the past 5 years. It can be a needle and a haystack for some of these memories. :oops:
I try and back all my photos up on DVDs and I do use Photoshop Elements 3 to organize them, but I'm still asking for trouble. I save more than I need to and it is starting to become trouble as I search for photos taken in the past 5 years. It can be a needle and a haystack for some of these memories. :oops:
