The advances brought about by the spread of digital technology have been felt especially keenly in the world of photography. Not only is it possible to take and keep as many photographs as you wish, but it is also now extremely easy to turn these images into photo gifts ranging from coasters to bespoke, luxury photo books .
In the past, once you’d taken the time and trouble (and there tended to be a lot of both involved) to print photos, there was actually very little else that could be done with them. Particular favourites could perhaps be re-printed, provided you kept the negatives in good enough condition, and very rarely they may be of good enough quality to cope with repeated enlargement. That, however, tended to be that and, aside from sticking your favourites in an album there wasn’t a lot else that you could do. Digital technology, however, means that you can turn your best photographs into a wide range of high specification photo gifts, with there being something which is bound to be suitable for absolutely any situation.
If you’re getting married, for example, then the chances are that you’re spending a large amount of money employing a professional photographer to produce one or more wedding photo albums to look back at after the event. As an alternative to these volumes, however, and to have an alternative, more casual record of the days many special moments and incidents, you may choose to furnish your guests with disposable digital cameras and encourage them to snap away to their hearts content. Once you’ve got the hundreds of images which this will produce you can go through them at leisure and build a ‘ground level’ view of the wedding. Photo books like this will be a world away from the carefully composed, formally posed norm, and will capture all those special moments such as one of the young bridesmaids trying to steal the icing from the wedding cake or Uncle Brian doing his best disco dancing. Not only will they be of a much more personal and intimate nature, but they will also be put together to the same high standard as professional volumes. Once you’ve uploaded the images you wish to use, you can then utilise the software to design features such as the number of pages, the shape and size of the book and the layout of each individual page. No prior experience is needed, and the end product will be put together and bound to a standard which means it will stay in perfect condition for many years to come.
On a much smaller scale, the same technology and methods can be used to create greeting cards which are yours and yours alone. If you want to say thank you to everyone who came to your wedding, for example, why not have photo cards printed using an intimate snap of the bride and groom, exhausted but happy at the end of a long day, or surrounded by heaps of presents.
Rather than just settling for having photographs to look at and enjoy, take advantage of the technology now available and turn them into bespoke photo gifts. From wall sized canvas prints to touching photo cards, they will all have one thing in common – you made them, and it doesn’t get more personal than that.
The Auspicious Occasion of Fathers day is near and its time to show your love for him with some some photo gifts ideas online. So why not present some digital photo prints like photo books or canvas prints that makes him remember the time spend with you.