Online Photo Storage

Online photo storage was just the answer for the young college woman whose laptop computer was absolutely and totally jam packed with photos! The young lady was addicted to her digital camera and took at least fifty pictures each day and every day. Students started ducking in behind dumpsters, benches, and cars and even grabbed a member of the opposite sex and pretended to be kissing with backs to her so she wouldn't take another picture! The problem was not only that she was annoying everyone with her incessant shutter bugging, but she hardly knew anyone she ever snapped. She didn't have any way to label the pictures because she had no personal connection to any of the subjects, the woman just like to take pictures and keep them in the laptop, which was now so jammed with indiscriminate photos of strangers that there was not even enough storage left to file a mildly large thesis.

But the pictures were so important to this young woman that they came before the thesis and now it was a big problem. But thank goodness, someone told her about online photo storing and then a roommate that was sick of looking into a camera lens told the student about portable digital photo storage. The girl's life was about to change drastically, but not for the students at the university, unfortunately. There are always some down sides to technological advances, aren't there? "And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:21)If a person is in the circumstances of the young woman, needing photo storage but cannot afford flash drives or a bigger hard drive, online photo storing may be just the thing, and even more so because some of the services are free! That's right folks, step right up to the wonderful world on free online photo storage.

There are several free services out there, so just hunt for them and they will develop pictures from a traditional film camera and then store them online for you, or they will store digitized photos, both for free. These websites make money by allowing a person to order high resolution prints from the pictures your camera takes for a fair price. When viewing personal pictures online, the resolution will be of a medium quality, but prints will be high quality and on a choice of high gloss or other finishes.The online photo storing services offer some intriguing options for photos that the services turn into pictures that will sit in a fireplace mantel. For example, a person can have decorative designs around the edge of the photo. Black and white edging might be a choice, or add a seasonal border for that special time of the year. Even special effects like torn edging, or making the photos into particular shapes.

But there is another option the young woman has before her, and that is the possibility of portable digital photo storage. The devices allow a person to actually download photos from an over crammed computer hard drive and onto a device that can be carried from place to place allowing viewing of the pictures at any time. That means not having to carry around a heavy laptop from location to location. The fathers of the 1950's carried around a portable stand up screen and either an eight millimeter projector or the handy dandy slide projector. The good thing about those big objects was that you could see what the dad had in hand ahead of time and could run and play deathly sick to avoid two hours of sheer torture!


The portable digital photo storage units can also be called media players because they can also store videos as well as pictures. Some of these units can have one hundred megabyte storage capacity, enough to store tens of thousands of pictures. There is the possibility that we are now talking our student's language. Some of these units can add pictures on the fly with the ability to insert a compact flash or memory card. Some will play mp3 files and some allow the user to put together a slide show with background music or watch the show on a television. These portable digital storage units range in price from about one hundred and fifty dollars to five hundred dollars for the well known brand names.

Now the free online photo storage services do have downsides. They can often go out of business without warning, they can surround stored photos with all kinds of ads, there may be pressure to buy prints and visitors often have to register. There are a number of sites that, for about forty dollars or so a year, will store photos without the threats, named above, to occur. In addition, the pay for storage sites will often give your photos full screen attention and place them in themed galleries with specific borders for that theme.

There are always new ways to spend one's money, and both the online photo storing services and the portable digital photo storage units may be terrific options for some people, like our totally photographically addicted young lady. The woman had no money, so the choice was obvious: the free online photo storage service was her cupcake. It didn't bother the young woman at all that ads for hamburgers and mp3 players floated around the total strangers of her collection. But what was truly bizarre was that the woman abandoned the thesis, dropped out of school, and hiked across country taking more pictures of people not known. Three years later the book of the photos would win a Pulitzer! Go figure.

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