Comments on: Adventures in Photo Gift-Giving

By: Wayne H

Wayne H — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:14:56 +0000

What has begging for new lens got to do with this blog. Can someone police the blog and remove nonsense like this CHIP guys request for help getting a new lens.

Jeeze!

By: pam kutzen

pam kutzen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:39:38 +0000

This is a great article. I have done many of these for friends and family. This summer I made a slide show with music and voice recordings for our mother’s 80th birthday party with copies to all my siblings on CD. It turned out to be a hit. I scanned really old photos, added in new photos; and it turned out to be a great life history of our mom.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:14:03 +0000

I recently took some 4×6′s and used spray adhesive to mount them onto blank cards (I bought a pack of Avery textured half-fold greeting cards). I think it looks a lot nicer than printing directly onto the cards.

By: dianna

dianna — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:56:43 +0000

MPIX has lots of awesome products.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:46:09 +0000

One other holiday usage for photos is Christmas cards – I know, I’m tired too of the generic family photo stuck on a postcard, but last year, I came up with a variation that my family loved! I took about 7-8 of my favorite photos from places we had visited the prior year and made a collage out of them. The family had fun trying to figure out where we had been! We did include a list of “some” of the places we had visited, but not all, so made for a fun card for the recipients.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:01 +0000

This is a fabulous article! I like knowing what you can do with the photos! Also, it is helpful to know where you can get high quality prints for the DSLR cameras. The regular photo developers just don’t produce the quality that I like.
Thank you very much! I love this site!

sincerely,
Erin

By: Personalised sentimetnal photo gifts

Personalised sentimetnal photo gifts — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:42:41 +0000

Experience gift ideas are meant for fun, activities, memories and plenty of laughter. Depending on the kind of person you are offering the gift to it is best to make sure that they will react positively to it. If the individual is someone who prefers relaxing nights in and a more sedentary life, then it is best not to organise something fast-paced or pulse-racing. However, for those who do like to be involved with daring activities then it is always a good idea to get a good idea of how well they will be able to take part in the activity and whether they are in fit condition for it.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:55:26 +0000

I take tons of pictures of my friends’ kids during the school year. When it is one of their birthdays I pulI my favorite pictures of their kids and digitally scrapbook a page. I print it in a 6×6 size and then glue it to a 6×6 size tile that I buy at Lowes or Home Depot for about 60 cents and then apply mod podge. I buy a stand at Walmart, or a craft store and give it as a gift. This goes over really well. Everyone loves them.

By: gr8belayr

gr8belayr — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:39:42 +0000

I think its pretty cheesy to state that an 11×14 requires an 8mp file from a dSLR in order to look good? Are you serious? I have used my 6mp D40 to produce 16×20′s with no discernible pixelization. And even passable 24×36′s.

I think it’s just the “bigger is better” mentality of the pixel-snobs on display again….I wonder if that can be Photoshop’d out?

By: Jason Collin Photography

Jason Collin Photography — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:08:54 +0000

I’d certainly accept this book as a gift!