101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P3 pdf

CHAPTER 9
Personal Accessories 137
Putting Your Photos in a Traditional Photo Album 138
Putting Your Photos on Coffee Mugs 138
Ironing Your Photos on T-Shirts 139
Making Business Cards with Your Photos at MOO.com 142
Burning Your Photos onto a Gift CD 143
Creating a Greeting Card Online 144
Creating Custom Postage Stamps with Your Photos at Stamps.com 146
CHAPTER 10
Getting Published 149
Making Your Photos Web Ready 150
Making Your Photos Magazine Ready 152
Writing a How-To Photo Book 153
Entering a Photography Competition 155
Self-Publishing a Photo Book Using Blurb 156
Submitting Photos to the Big-Time Media Outlets for Publication 157
Getting Your Photo Noticed on Google 159
Using BigHugeLabs to Publish Photo Posters, Jigsaw Puzzles,
Comicbook Captions, and More 161
CHAPTER 11
Promoting Yourself 163
Building a Website That Respects Your Budget 164
Knowing What You Want on Your Website 166
Letting Others Know about Your Website/Blog 168
Using Twitter to Announce Your Events/Activities 169
Creating a Print Photography Portfolio 170
Creating a Google Knol 172
Interacting with Others Online 172
Pounding the Pavement 174
CHAPTER 12

Working with Slideshows 177
Making a Movie from Your Images Using iMovie 178
Making a Movie from Your Images Using Windows Movie Maker 179
Making a Slideshow Using Picasa 181
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Putting Your Slideshow on YouTube 182
From iMovie 183
From Movie Maker 183
From Picasa 184
Embedding a Slideshow on Your Blog 184
On Blogger 185
On WordPress 185
Using Slide.com to Make a Slideshow 186
Making and Sharing Your Slideshow at Slideroll.com 187
Showing Your Slideshows on TV 189
CHAPTER 13
Film to Digital 191
Sorting through Your Old Photos to Prepare Them for Scanning 192
Scanning Prints, Slides, and Negatives 193
Getting Your Photos (Including Negatives) Professionally Scanned 195
INDEX 196
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Introduction
Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop
computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting
there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until
now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos.
Hidden in various places around the Internet are hundreds of ways to make photos come alive
online, in print form, in scrapbooks, on the walls of people’s homes, in blogs, on social networking
sites, and in many other places.

101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Digital Photographs takes those who wonder what to
do with their photos on a journey where they will immediately discover not only a place to
exhibit their work, but also ways to make their photos work for them by selling them online
and on the ground.
This book is for using, manipulating, posting, sharing, publishing, managing, and promoting
photos that you have taken or plan to take. Online platforms will be introduced so that you can
begin navigating through the many free sites to put your photos to use. You’ll learn how to use
your photos in such online locations as Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket, and Facebook. You’ll
learn about everything from free downloadable software to manage your photos, such as Picasa
(Google’s photo management program), to programs that are already on your computer, such
as iPhoto on a Mac and Windows Live on a PC.
This book also walks you through the printing process, from learning about the right type
of printer for your needs to finding the best paper to make your photos last nearly forever.
If you don’t want to print your photos yourself, the book shows you the most reasonable ways
to outsource your printing.
Using your photos wouldn’t be complete for some without mentioning the latest in scrapbook-
ing trends, including extensive how-to instruction on how to build layers in Photoshop to make
the most compelling of scrapbook pages. You’ll learn about how to use digital kits for making
scrapbooks as well as places to find great free materials for making scrapbook pages.
The book doesn’t omit on-ground techniques for using your photos. Photos these days usually
require significant steps to be performed online and on your computer before you can use the
images on the ground. You can order mats, frames, and other photo-framing supplies online;
make your framed photos on the ground; and sell them online and host photo shows on the
ground—all using your photos that are online or on your computer.
Let’s not forget selling your photos and promoting yourself so people can find you and your work.
This book details the best ways to make your photos a known commodity, and it brainstorms
the best places to sell your photos online and on the ground. You’ll learn about how microstock
photography, blogs, websites, social networking sites, and photo hosting sites can make or break
your photography career.
Dig into the book morsel by morsel, enjoying the rewards that can be had by finding new uses

for your photography.
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