Comments on: Scan All Your Pictures to Disk http://www.frugalworld.com/2007/02/20/scan-all-your-pictures-to-disk/ Frugal living tips to save you time and money. Browse by category, search, or refresh the front page for a new selection of random tips. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: dennis_l http://www.frugalworld.com/2007/02/20/scan-all-your-pictures-to-disk/#comment-225 dennis_l Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:36:08 +0000 http://www.frugalworld.com/2007/02/20/scan-all-your-pictures-to-disk/#comment-225 We did this last year and the inlaws loved it (or so they said). A couple of suggestions: -keep the photos large, as large as they come off the digital camera. Large jpeg pictures print at a higher resolution than smaller ones (and better than something like gifs), so bigger is better. -burn the images to DVD if you can. Always choose the latest format you can when burning stuff (once it settles in to be a given well-used format). I'm not sure it matters a whole lot. CDs will definitely be around for a while, but it will become obsolete some day, probably before DVDs, so why not? Also, you can fit more pictures on a DVD! -whichever format you go with (CD or DVD), check your computer to see if you have authoring software that came with your CD or DVD drive. Most of the time you'll at least have a simple program that will allow you to make slideshows, etc. with your pictures. This can be an easy way to burn them, and you'll have a number of "perks" you can do to make the whole presentation look more professional. We did this last year and the inlaws loved it (or so they said). A couple of suggestions:

-keep the photos large, as large as they come off the digital camera. Large jpeg pictures print at a higher resolution than smaller ones (and better than something like gifs), so bigger is better.

-burn the images to DVD if you can. Always choose the latest format you can when burning stuff (once it settles in to be a given well-used format). I’m not sure it matters a whole lot. CDs will definitely be around for a while, but it will become obsolete some day, probably before DVDs, so why not? Also, you can fit more pictures on a DVD!

-whichever format you go with (CD or DVD), check your computer to see if you have authoring software that came with your CD or DVD drive. Most of the time you’ll at least have a simple program that will allow you to make slideshows, etc. with your pictures. This can be an easy way to burn them, and you’ll have a number of “perks” you can do to make the whole presentation look more professional.

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