How do you display your work?

[coupekid]

Ok, youve taken the pictures, re-worked and tweaked in Photoshop, but now what?

Well, I have found this neat little tool in Vista called Windows Movie Maker:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/moviemaker.mspx

You can burn all your images to DVD and play in any DVD player (it even worked in my PS2)

So how do you share yours, anyone use an Electronic Photoframe at all?

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

Ok, youve taken the pictures, re-worked and tweaked in Photoshop, but now what?

Well, I have found this neat little tool in Vista called Windows Movie Maker:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/moviemaker.mspx

You can burn all your images to DVD and play in any DVD player (it even worked in my PS2)

So how do you share yours, anyone use an Electronic Photoframe at all?

Hi Ben, wasn't Windows Movie Maker available before Vista?

I bought my Mum, who suffers from Alzheimers, a digital photo frame for Christmas so she could be reminded of all her family every day.

I still think the best way of showing a photo is a print though.

Ian

[coupekid]

Re: How do you display your work?

Hi Ben, wasn't Windows Movie Maker available before Vista?

I bought my Mum, who suffers from Alzheimers, a digital photo frame for Christmas so she could be reminded of all her family every day.

I still think the best way of showing a photo is a print though.

Ian

It certainly was, I jumped the gun a bit Ian and should have gone on to explain that, with Vista it also comes with DVD Burning software imagintely named 'Windows DVD Maker' with XP it looks like you may need third party software.

I have been tempted to get an electronic photo frame, whats your thoughts on it?

[Pol]

Re: How do you display your work?

I still think the best way of showing a photo is a print though.

Ian

I agree about prints.

I make sure I have at least one good 6 x 4 of anything I consider 'precious' (family snaps etc) - and they get stored with the old film prints.

I also use occasional photos for greetings cards or other gifts from Photobox.

Pol

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

It certainly was, I jumped the gun a bit Ian and should have gone on to explain that, with Vista it also comes with DVD Burning software imagintely named 'Windows DVD Maker' with XP it looks like you may need third party software.

I have been tempted to get an electronic photo frame, whats your thoughts on it?

I have to confess that the photo frame I bought for my Mum wasn't very good. It was a speculative buy just in time for Christmas. Basically it wasn't very expensive and this mean that the display was poor (interlaced and with a poor viewing angle and disappointing dynamic range - you could have shadow detail or highlight detail but not both!).

I have another on that was sent in for evaluation and it's a lot nicer.

The moral of the story is to research your product before buying.

Have you got a model in mind?

Ian

[DTD]

Re: How do you display your work?

Books are my favourite way – use Aperture and iPhoto to make them on a mac. Have also tried Kodak's offerings which were pretty good.

Made a movie of photos using iMovie and will certainly do the same again. Keep meaning to post it on some webspace.

[peter]

Re: How do you display your work?

Websites mostly. I post a few here some on other sites . Hey do not shot me for saying that Ian. This is the site I always come to first . I also post stuff on my own site but not many people see that I guess . Having said all that I do have two prints on the wall of two bikes that I shot at a local hill climb. I have also give a few prints away that I hope are on somebody's wall. I also did a load of photos for the sister in law when she got married a few years back, but they have since split so god knows what happened to them.

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

Websites mostly. I post a few here some on other sites . Hey do not shot me for saying that Ian. This is the site I always come to first . I also post stuff on my own site but not many people see that I guess . Having said all that I do have two prints on the wall of two bikes that I shot at a local hill climb. I have also give a few prints away that I hope are on somebody's wall. I also did a load of photos for the sister in law when she got married a few years back, but they have since split so god knows what happened to them.

Pete, not many are going to see your photos on your site when the url doesn't seem to work

Ian (the curious!)

[peter]

Re: How do you display your work?

Strange it works for me . I have tried it a few times in the past and it always seems to work. I will have to look into it.

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

Strange it works for me . I have tried it a few times in the past and it always seems to work. I will have to look into it.

Ah, must have been a temporary glitch - it's working now

Ian

[Pops]

Re: How do you display your work?

Last year I gathered together dozens and dozens of family photographs. I had 3 children and 1 grandchild at the time. I organised each set into age order starting with baby pics and progressing to the latest ones I had. I then stuck a couple of myself and my wife in.
Now to Windows Movie Maker.......first pic was of myself and my wife taken during our pre marriage days ... then all of the childrens photo's and the final photo was of myself and my wife as we are today...(at the time I made the discs up). At certain relevant points I inserted a text message which I had made up in Paint Shop pro stating ages and identity. (that was just in case they couldn't recognise themselves )I gave each of the children a copy and of course we kept one for ourselves.
Oh yes....I also included photographs of pets ...
I was rather pleased with the results. Now I have a 2nd grandchild so will probably do it all again in a few months.

Took a long time to finish because all the photo's had to be sorted, scanned and processed. I enjoyed every minute of it.

[Autumn]

Re: How do you display your work?

I also did something similar last year Pops.

Not quite so ambitious, but I scanned nearly 400 slides and put them through Photoshop and then into a Memories on TV to make a DVD.

These only covered a relatively short period - about 10 years, but because they were slides our 4 children hadn't really seen them. They had just looked at photos in the albums.

They also have copies of the DVDs and were delighted with them.

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

I also did something similar last year Pops.

Not quite so ambitious, but I scanned nearly 400 slides and put them through Photoshop and then into a Memories on TV to make a DVD.

These only covered a relatively short period - about 10 years, but because they were slides our 4 children hadn't really seen them. They had just looked at photos in the albums.

They also have copies of the DVDs and were delighted with them.

Audrey - out of interest, what did you use to scan your slides? Did you get good results?

Ian

[Autumn]

Re: How do you display your work?

Audrey - out of interest, what did you use to scan your slides? Did you get good results?

Ian

Well Ian it was a transparency scanner I borrowed from our Photographic Society.

At the time I was doing them -22 October 2005 was the date of the slideshow I made - I asked for advice on the forum and you said it was a good Scanner. I have had a look in the archives, but there doesn't appear to be a way of searching for that post.

If you have the facility, I suggest you look for a post from me a week or so before that date.

As we do not meet during the summer I can't find out the make of it. However, I do know it was new at the time.

Yes I was very happy with the result.

Many of our transparency workers have to use it to have their images scanned for competitions and they appear to be satisfied (and that is saying something )

HTH

[Ian]

Re: How do you display your work?

Well Ian it was a transparency scanner I borrowed from our Photographic Society.

At the time I was doing them -22 October 2005 was the date of the slideshow I made - I asked for advice on the forum and you said it was a good Scanner. I have had a look in the archives, but there doesn't appear to be a way of searching for that post.

If you have the facility, I suggest you look for a post from me a week or so before that date.

As we do not meet during the summer I can't find out the make of it. However, I do know it was new at the time.

Yes I was very happy with the result.

Many of our transparency workers have to use it to have their images scanned for competitions and they appear to be satisfied (and that is saying something )

HTH

Found it - use the search box on the top left (which lets you search the whole site, not just the current forum). I used the key words autumn, scanner and 2005. The first result has a lot of hits but by using the option to only include all the key words in the hits, your post came up top.

Here is the link:

http://dpnow.com/bb/help.pl?frames=n;read=379

And you used a Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV - which is indeed a very good tranny scanner

Ian