Over the past year, my wife and I have taken tons of photos and video of our baby. We are constantly getting asked by friends to share pictures and videos of little floppyhead (hence the name of this site, though his head is no longer as floppy). Here are two suggestions for sharing photos and videos:
1) Use Picasa. It is a free digital photo album tool from Google. You can organize your photos, do a little bit of touching up, crop photos, and e-mail photos to friends and family. You can also send a link to a Google web album, which are free and does not require your family to register for an account like some of the other photo sharing services. The best thing about Picasa is that it handles large picture files very well. We bought a Digital Rebel camera so most of our images are quite large and are a pain to e-mail. Picasa automatically down sizes anything you e-mail or post to a web album, all from within the program.
2) Use Adobe’s Premiere Elements. I have yet to find a free piece of software that is as easy to use as Premiere Elements. Consider the $99 cost of the software as an investment in saving you time. Through Elements, you can make DVDs that include menus and chapters. DVDs in many ways are an easy way to share video. Everyone has a DVD player, even the older generations in your family that have no idea of YouTube. Plus, I am still alittle uneasy putting family videos on YouTube. Even if you are sharing videos online, Premiere Elements helps you make a slick looking video without a large learning curve.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
StashSpace offers a free easy to use application to share family video and pictures online. It is safe, secure, and high quality. You can add video from a multitude of sources: video files, camcorder, digital camera, flip video, cell phone, photos albums, even send them tapes and they will transfer them to digital. It is really easy to use and saves a lot of time making sharing video easy. You can also order dvds from them. Check them out at http://www.stashspace.com