Bring Your Vacation Memories To Life
Vacations are always too short and coming home can be an unwelcome shock.
But, the best way to beat your blues (short of jumping back on the airplane) is to relive your trip by sharing stories with your family and friends.
The key is, while you are on vacation, take tons of photos!
Then, once you get home, get those photos off your camera and onto your computer. With digital cameras being so affordable these days, you'll save money taking digital shots.
In addition to photographs, you'll want to shoot a ton of video footage while you're on your trip - especially if you have kids. You can never have too much footage of your children.
These days, digital pocket video cameras are an excellent option to consider instead of camcorders. They are affordable and it's astonishingly easy to record and upload to your computer. Since they are so small, you can keep your video camera on hand so you don't miss capturing any memories.
Here are three ways you can quickly organize and share your vacation memories.
- Picasa -- The first step is to organize your digital photos. Picasa is a free and easy way to organize, edit and share your photos. You can easily create web albums to share with your friends and family wherever they live.
- Animoto -- Wow your friends with a music video of your trip! Animoto is a new, unique online service that takes your digital images and creates animated slideshows set to music. It is so simple and so fast, it will blow your mind. You can watch an example video I created with photos of my family at my childhood playground. Animoto is free for short videos and for a small fee you can create full length videos.
- Photo Books -- There are tons of products and services available these days to quickly and easily turn your photos into printed photo books. I just discovered Zoom Albums and they are brilliant. You print and create these pocket size photo album at home on your ink-jet printer.
Using technology to simplify organizing and sharing your photos will guarantee you enjoy your vacation memories and will make you feel like a techie wizard!
