I suppose we've had a digital camera about six years now and I've built up quite a lot of folders of photos on the computer. I've been through them twice now trying to cut them down but there's still loads there. I think that it's easy to take far more with a digital camera than it was when you had to take the film to be developed!

What do people do with them? I was wondering about getting them printed and storing the prints with a disc with the originals on? Most of them, once taken, don't get looked at but I want to keep them. I'm reluctant to start stuffing albums again!

Any ideas?

Photobooks are good. Takes time to organise the book but it's a good way of presenting your photos and keeping them nice. Some places are more rigid than others for layout but Photobox and Tesco both have a good amount of freedom of layout if you want. If you've not seen these I can try to remember to bring the one I have to show you when you come to Stalybridge.
Other options for back up are sky drive and similar or an external hard drive.

If you haven't already, perhaps a screen saver of a slideshow of photos, or a collage of photos as a desktop wallpaper.

How about a digital photo frame?

I have a printer that goes up to A3 so each year (or more frequently if it's been busy) I make a collage out of my favourites and print it out and frame it. You could of course do the same thing with individual pictures - I just use one sheet to avoid the sticking of individual photos to a backing sheet.

My screensaver is all the photos in My Pictures and I love to see what comes up - places I've been, the boys when they were little - all sorts of things, in random order. I've deleted anything I don't really like, so nothing should come up that I'm not pleased to see

I also print off the photos I particularly like, and getting them into albums is an on-going project.



I've put together a collage using individual prints, but being able to make one single A3 collage picture on the computer before printing would be lovely. I'm also tempted to print some individual pictures out in a larger size - A4 perhaps. I'm not an amazing photographer, but I'm not rubbish, and I do have a few that could take being enlarged and printed.

Make archival quality prints of the very best and store them in a dry dark, cool (but not cold) place for posterity.

Dump the rest of the digifiles to a folder on your computer and also to a big external hard disk. Every two or three years copy them to a new disk to guard against HW failure. It is best to save in a future-proof file format. jpeg is not likely to disappear in a hurry or for uncompressed images .tiff files have been around for a long time. But the RAW formats used by digital cameras are constantly being changed, and need special software to read them

As for displaying the best, there are all kinds of ways, conventional prints, collages, T-shirts, coasters and place mats, posters, calendars, photo-books, and many many more.