What to Do with Your Photos

Phnom Penh - Cambodia

In today’s world we can all take amazing photographic images. Even cheaper digital point and shoot cameras, along with big fancy SLR cameras, can produce high quality images on automatic without much fuss.

But what should you do with all these digital images? Well instead of letting them collect dust on you hard drive, here are just a few idea's to make your photos stand out among the crowd!

Calenders

Calenders can be easily produced via websites like redbubble.com at an affordable price. You will need images that meet their size and quality requirements, which many cameras can do in normal auto mode. But once you have them, their templates make production easy work. Calenders make great presents and also look good hanging up in your home or office.

Sell

Stock photography has taken off in the past few years and it's possible for anyone with a camera to sell images. There guidelines you must follow and images are checked before they go on sale. But don't let this put you off. Websites like dreamstime.com offer free accounts and are easy to use.

Blog

Blogging is a great way to share your photography with friends and the rest of the world. It's also extremely easy! wordpress.com and blogger.com are the best know blogging platforms and both are free, simple and easy to use.

Flickr.com

Another easy and free (paid options available) way to share images with friends, family and the flickr community. Just head over to the website, sign up and start uploading your images immediately. Free accounts allow you 200 images. If you have hundreds of images, you can pay for a Pro Account which gives you unlimited uploads.

Print

Many people aren't printing images as much these days due to everything being digital. But it's still nice if you can print a few and again at websites like redbubble.com, you can print images, cards and posters at various sizes. They can do framed or unframed and the procedure is easy, affordable and painless.