The Photo Info

Life is so busy these days and it often seems there aren't
enough hours in the day. Keeping in touch with family and
friends via the internet helps people stay in touch even during
the busiest times. A quick email isn't always enough, however
and creating online photo stories with free photo editing
software can be the answer. Your stories help your friends and
family to feel closer to you as they keep up with all the
activities in your life. From the soccer game to the third grade
school play your photo stories can help family and friends feel
like they were there.

Fitting in one more activity into your busy life may seem
impossible, but free photo editing software makes creating your
photo stories quick and easy. There are so many options in free
photo editing programs for stories that allow you to simply
click, click and go. Drag and drop in your photos, click the
mouse here to reduce redeye and there to cover a pimple. Crop
the photo to remove the garbage can in the background and resize
it so everyone can see the cute little faces better. Click again
and add your story in the text box. Click to choose your
background and theme and choose the font you want. In just a few
minutes you have created a priceless treasure to share with
family and friends everywhere.

You can create photo stories for every occasion or none at all.

Maybe you catch a priceless shot of the kids helping each other
with homework or the cat eating the cereal that got left on the
table. Within minutes your great aunt on the other side of the
country could be getting a chuckle from the scene in a creative
and quick photo story you created with free photo editing
software. Stories help your photos create meaningful memories
that will last forever for you and the people you care about.
Why not send create photo stories instead of plain old emails
when it is so quick and easy to do?

Microwaves gave us meals in seconds instead of hours. Email
gave us communication at the speed of light and photo editing
gives you stories in just a few minutes instead of hours spent
creating a scrapbook. Not only is it quicker and free, but you
can share your photo stories with as many people as you would
like to, no matter how remote or distant the relation. You can
even use free photo editing software to create Christmas photo
stories instead of sending Christmas cards or newsletters.
People can view them whenever they like and never have to decide
whether to throw them out or stuff them in a box somewhere.

In short, free photo editing for your stories helps you keep up
with your high-speed lifestyle while still keeping your friends,
family, acquaintances or even complete strangers up to date on
the latest news in your life. There is no reason not to get
started right away to create these lifelong memories.

About the Author: MJ Johnston writes for a variety of websites,
including Hoorray (http://www.freeonlinephotoalbum.org and
http://www.freeonlinephotostorage.org), a photo sharing site
that offers the quickest and easiest way to build a free online
photo album, as well as free online photo storage.

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Most people tend not to think about the details of their online
photo sharing experience. As long as their photos get from their
computers to their online photo album, they could care less
about the processes that got it there. The way that digital
cameras designed, this really isn’t a problem, as most cameras
and photo editing software support this approach. However,
there’s a lot more that goes into online photo sharing than is
obvious on the surface.

Those who are interested in the fundamentals of digital
photography may be curious about different file formats. Many
have heard or seen the terms for picture file extensions, such
as .jpg (or JPEG), .gif, .tif, and .png. What do all these
different three letter extensions mean?

JPEGs

The term JPEG actually stands for “Joint Photographic Experts
Group” – the group that initially created the standard back in
1992. Since then, the JPEG has become the most commonly found
picture file type on the Internet. This is primarily because
JPEGs offer a tremendous amount of flexibility in terms of its
compression and picture quality. That is, its possible to
significantly reduce the storage size of a JPEG file by also
reducing the quality. Back when the Internet was first starting
out, downloading mutli-megabyte picture files just wasn’t
practical. JPEGs could maintain a reasonable image quality while
making the file size of the image much smaller.

JPEGs have remained an Internet standard thanks to this
quality. People are able to make images much easier to transfer
between computers without losing a significant amount of picture
quality. The drawback to JPEGs is that it is a “lossy” format –
this means that each time a picture is edited and resaved in the
JPEG format, it loses a degree of quality.

TIFFs

TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format. TIFF files are
versatile and high quality, supporting up to 48-bit color depth
(compared to 8-bit for GIFs and 24-bit for JPEGs). The downsides
of this format are two-fold. For one, TIFF files have a wide
variance and an image viewer that can view one type of TIFF file
can’t necessarily view anther. Secondly, TIFF files are not
widely supported by web browsers, making them impractical for
online photo sharing.

GIFs and PNGs

GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Like the JPEG, GIF
files are also commonly found all around the Internet. GIF files
are comparatively limited in their color palette – having only
256 colors to work with. This make GIFs a good choice for
relatively simple pictures without a lot of color differences,
such as cartoons and simple logos. While it a lossless format
that doesn’t degrade in quality, it’s pretty rare that you’ll
see a photograph in a GIF format in the modern age, since most
cameras are able to take pictures with significantly more color
depth.

PNGs, or Portable Network Graphics files, are the successor to
GIFs. Unlike GIFs, they support truecolor, a 16-million color
palette. PNGs are lossless, making them great for editing
photos. Most web browsers support PNGs, but they can still be
quite large. In many cases, the best choice is to edit a file in
PNG format, then convert to JPEG for distribution.

About the Author: MJ Johnston writes for a variety of websites,
including http://Onlinedigitalphotoprinting.net
(http://www.onlinedigitalphotoprinting.net), a site that offers
advice on the quickest and easiest way to enjoy online digital
photo printing.

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