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Sharing Your Photos with Friends and Family 

Let's say you've taken a bunch of beautiful digital photos and you want to share them with friends and family. What's the best way to do this? There are many options, from printing and burning onto CDs or DVDs, to emailing and uploading the photos.
This article will walk you through some of the best options for sharing your treasured digital photo collection. Once you learn them, sharing your photos will become a breeze. Essentially, there are four main ways to share digital photos:
You can share your pictures by having a hardcopy printout just as you did with film-based photography. What you need for this option is a good photo printer and some quality photo printing paper. I will usually print my photos using an inkjet printer (the Canon Pixma iP4000) using glossy photo paper. The prints I receive are high quality - virtually indiscernable them from those you print at photo kiosks.
Of course, if you don't have a photo printer, you can still visit a photo kiosk to get the job done, or even upload your images to an online photo printing website. These websites will print your pictures and deliver them to you via mail. Before choosing this option make sure you do some shopping around first - digital photo printing services don't come cheap.
Storing your photos on CD and DVD is a very good option for sharing photos, particularly if you have a immensely huge photo collection. The downside, of course, is that your family and friends need to have a CD player or DVD player to view the content.
CD and DVD burners are quite reasonably priced. A single CD-R stores 650MB and a DVD stores 4GB. That is an amazing amount of storage space for your photo collection.
Another option is to email your photos to your friends and family members. I do warn you to be careful though. Please make sure your recipient wants to receive the photos first. Showering him or her with a 10MB email containing photo attachments is not a very nice thing to do - it's best if you obtained permission to do so first.
A good alternative to emailing photos is to upload your photos to a website, then simply email the website link to your friends or family. This avoids the problem of huge email attachments.
One of the best ways to share digital photos is to upload them to a website. There are many online photo storage sites available. SmugMug is one of my favorite photo sharing sites. It allows you to upload photo albums and determine who can view those albums.
Please recognize that there are limitations to using photo sharing websites. Some of them charge a fee for their services while others require you to purchase prints to keep your account active. You also may not be able to customize the presentation of the website easily.
You can also set up your own web site and host your own picture gallery. If you're looking for a reliable, and free, web hosting company, I'd suggest you try Yahoo! web hosting. I've used them for years without any problems and their customer support is first-rate.
There are various ways to share your digital photos with friends and family. Personally, I tend to burn my images to CD or DVD and pass them around. I also like uploading images to websites for all to see. Do try one of the above techniques the next time you want to share photos!

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