It’s easy to snap hundreds of pictures on your vacation or from the last family reunion, but what do you do with all of those pictures when it’s over? Having web photo albums are a great way to preserve and document your memories as well as share them with interested friends and family. But, rest assured not even your mom wants to look at hundreds of pictures featuring a glacier or 150 shots of you in front of the Eiffel Tower. With a strategy in place you can create a captivating web photo album to remember and share.
The first and possibly most important step is to sort through your photographs. One way to do this is to set up multiple folders and move all of the similar photographs to their respective folder. So for example if you’ve taken a vacation, create one folder for each destination you visited then group the right photographs in each folder. While you’re sorting, delete any pictures that were blurry or you aren’t sure why you took. If you have the ability to use photo retouching programs like Adobe Photoshop or others you might be able to salvage images that didn’t turn out as you had hoped.
After you’ve sorted all the images, begin to go through each folder. If you’ve taken multiple images of the same thing select a few that are the most interesting. Add the remaining images to a “leftover” folder. You might not use them for your vacation photo galleries but they might be needed down the road. Follow this same process until you’ve sorted all of your images.
The next tip is to think about the stories or experiences behind the photographs. Is there a series of images that tell a story? Do you have a particular memory that you don’t want to forget? If you’ve kept a trip journal, look back and see which memories you can pair with the images. Begin creating your web photo album by uploading your images in a sequence or another format that allows you to share the memories in a clear manner. You may find as you begin creating your album you have a lot of photographs of one area but are short on others. Go back to your image archive to fill in any gaps. Or, you might find in your travel journal a particular story you wrote down and want to remember – go back and see if you can find an image to illustrate that story.
Finally, go into the descriptions and edit them to share your trip history. Use descriptive words and details to share your memories. Keep in mind the viewer. Will your sister know what you’re talking about if she’s never been to this place? In a few years will you remember? Include as much detail as possible. Finally when your album is complete share it far and wide! Your family and friends are sure to enjoy this visual document!
The first and possibly most important step is to sort through your photographs. One way to do this is to set up multiple folders and move all of the similar photographs to their respective folder. So for example if you’ve taken a vacation, create one folder for each destination you visited then group the right photographs in each folder. While you’re sorting, delete any pictures that were blurry or you aren’t sure why you took. If you have the ability to use photo retouching programs like Adobe Photoshop or others you might be able to salvage images that didn’t turn out as you had hoped.
After you’ve sorted all the images, begin to go through each folder. If you’ve taken multiple images of the same thing select a few that are the most interesting. Add the remaining images to a “leftover” folder. You might not use them for your vacation photo galleries but they might be needed down the road. Follow this same process until you’ve sorted all of your images.
The next tip is to think about the stories or experiences behind the photographs. Is there a series of images that tell a story? Do you have a particular memory that you don’t want to forget? If you’ve kept a trip journal, look back and see which memories you can pair with the images. Begin creating your web photo album by uploading your images in a sequence or another format that allows you to share the memories in a clear manner. You may find as you begin creating your album you have a lot of photographs of one area but are short on others. Go back to your image archive to fill in any gaps. Or, you might find in your travel journal a particular story you wrote down and want to remember – go back and see if you can find an image to illustrate that story.
Finally, go into the descriptions and edit them to share your trip history. Use descriptive words and details to share your memories. Keep in mind the viewer. Will your sister know what you’re talking about if she’s never been to this place? In a few years will you remember? Include as much detail as possible. Finally when your album is complete share it far and wide! Your family and friends are sure to enjoy this visual document!
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