How To Share Photo Albums

2007-10-10 Word Count: 502 Category: Software

With the widely use of digital cameras, people often need to share photos with family members and friends. How to share photos in a convenient way and with good look-and-feel? There are four methods: email delivery, executable file, photo hosting service and online photo album.

Email delivery means that photo files are sent as the attatchment of email. Almost every one can send and receive emails. Email delivery is the most easy method to share photos. But most email accounts limit the space and size of single email. People can only send several photos in a single email. And most email accounts cannot receive many photos. Last but not the least, photo files attatched in emails are only files without any decoration.

Executable file means that photo files are embeded in a executable file. Photos are displayed while the executable file is running. The executable file can be spreaded by CD, website and so on. The executable files must be generated by some certain software tools. In the process of generating the executable file, people can specify the effect and look-and-feel of displaying. The fatal problem of this method is that executable files are often attacked by computer virus. So people often refuse to run executable files from unfamilliar people. That means many people will miss the photos because of computer virus attacking.

Photo hosting service is similiar to web hosting service. People uploads photo files to a photo hosting server. Other people who want to see the photos can visit a specific URL like visiting a website. The URL can be spreaded by email, MSN and so on. Most photo hosting services are not free of charge. Some free services will show ads while displaying photos. People can choose the effect and look-and-feel of displaying photos. But this often cause additional fee.

Online photo album is a set of webpages and photo files which is hosted in a normal web host. It can be a part of a normal website. After uploading all files of the photo album, an online photo album is ready to access. Free web host service can be find by searching "free web host" in Google. And some free blog service can host online photo albums too. Online photo album has the most flexibility of effect and look-and-feel of displaying photos. Every one who can edit webpages can produce photo albums.

Many software tools can produce webpages, eg Microsoft Frontpage. But manually editing hundreds of webpages with photo files is absolutely a tremendous and time-consuming task. A handy software tool, eg EZ Thumbnail Builder, will help you out of this task. It will guide you for the whole authoring process, including selecting photos, choose templates and effects and look-and-feel, modifying some settings. A photo album can be completed in several minutes with amazing effects and decorations. Photographers, traveling fans and most digital camera users should own a photo album software, such as EZ Thumbnail Builder.

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Micheal Feng is a professional software developer focus in multimedia software. Many multimedia software, including EZ Thumbnail Builder and EZ Photo Renamer, are introduced in www.esmarttools.com. Digital camera user will find many handy software tools in his website.