Rather than sending a generic Christmas card out every year, my husband and I like to send a Christmas holiday photo card to our family and friends. It’s a nice way to add a personal touch and to make sure long-distance friends still recognize us! Pretty much every year I make our Christmas photo cards […]
How to Transform Your Favorite Photos into Custom Wall Art
Custom canvas photo prints are a trendy and inexpensive means of decorating your home or office. There are many excellent companies that, using state-of-the-art inkjet print technology, will transform your favorite digital images or actual print photos into beautiful canvas art of any size. The cost is actually fairly reasonable and you can order them […]
Top Digital Printing Services for Prints, Photo Books, and Gifts
It seems like, with all the digital/social sharing options, many people don’t bother printing their photos anymore. But I still like to see my pictures on paper, whether as a print or in a photo book or calendar, rather than just storing everything on my smartphone. This is especially true around the holidays when there […]
Best Mobile Printers for Printing Photos
While showing off photos on your smartphone or via email or social media is easy, I still think nothing can beat a print in your hand. People, especially family members, still love to have pictures they can hold and examine and post on the fridge or the wall. And prints today will last many years […]
Review: Making a Blurb Photo Book
Blurb is a little different from the standard photo book companies. It has free book-making tools for everyone from the beginner to the pro level. You can make one book for your own use or self-publish and sell it on their bookseller platform. You can either create it using their online editor or download their […]
Why I love Lightroom Classic for Image Processing and Organizing
There are dozens of sites that offer reviews of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, so in this post, I’m going to tell you why it’s my favorite tool for organizing and processing my digital photos. While Photoshop is awesome, I find that at least 90% of the time I never need to go into Photoshop to […]
Scan Your Old 35mm Slides – Preserve Your Photos and Save Space
My parents still have boxes of old color 35mm slides from road trips they took in the 1960s, hidden away in a closet. As a child, I remember our family gathering around as my dad manned the slide projector, and my sisters and I giggled at the hairdos and the fun stories my parents told […]