Create an artistic masterpiece from your photo! Print your digital image onto a linen canvas print
Photos4.co.uk is a great place to learn about what you can do with your digital photos, from simply printing them on professional photo paper to creating personalised gifts, such as mousemats, photobooks and even etched glass.
Whoever you are looking to buy that gift for, be it a birthday present, Christmas present or whatever, the diversity of photo products available online means that you are bound to find something suitable for everyone on your gifts list.
Our aim at Photos4 is to make that as easy as possible for you.
We have exhaustively reviewed and used the sites listed in this directory, and we only mention those sites offering services which we think are the best in their field (not simply those sites that offer us the best commission).
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By the way, it's also important to make sure that you backup your digital images.
What if your hard drive fails or your CD or DVD becomes corrupted? Many of the sites we mention here also let you upload your images as a way of backing up your data, or, of course, you can use online services to write your digital photographs to CD or DVD.
If you would like to know still more about the company behind Photos4, then visit our other websites to find our more about our (often free) online services:
And now, just in case you're unfamiliar with digital photos and their potential...
Introduction
Digital photography has certainly come a long way in a short space of time,
if you consider that the first consumer digital cameras weren`t introduced
until the mid-1990s. Nowadays, digital cameras are everywhere, and digital
photography is faster, easier and more enjoyable than traditional film photography.
Photographers, even beginners, need not worry about wasting film, or expensive
development costs, because there is no film, and development, if required,
is limited only to the photographs that you really want. You can see your
results, immediately, delete those that you don`t want, and transfer those
that you do to a computer, for editing, or sharing, via email, or the World
Wide Web.
Digital Cameras & Digital Photographs
A straightforward, easy to use, digital camera typically costs between £60
and £125, and provides sufficient "resolution" - the number of picture elements,
or "pixels", in each image - for, at least, good 6" x 4" photographic prints,
if that`s what you want. Generally speaking, a minimum of 200ppi, or "pixels
per inch", is required - horizontally, and vertically - to produce a satisfactory
print, so a resolution of 1,200 x 800 pixels, or 960,000, in total, is required
for a print of this size.
It may well be, of course, that photographic prints are not what you want,
and there are plenty of other options available, to suit even the most creative
mind. As a first - and precautionary, rather than creative - step, you might
like to back up your photographs to some kind of removable media, such as
a CD, DVD, or USB stick. This not only free up space on your computer`s
hard disk, if you need it, but also means that your precious snapshots will
not be lost, in the event of a system failure.
You might also like to try a community photo album, or scrapbook, online,
and many free or subscription services exist. A "photobook" is similar to
a traditional photograph album, but photographs are printed directly on
the pages, or you might like to "rasterize" your images, so that they can
be printed, and assembled into posters.
Other possibilities include incorporating your digital photographs into
key rings, greetings cards, stationery, or calendars, domestic items - such
as cushions, mugs, and fridge magnets - or clothing. A wide range of "photo
fashion" items - t-shirts, caps, handbags, even babies` bibs - is available
from any number of companies, both online, and on the high street. These,
and any other, companies involved in digital photography can be located,
fairly easily, in photography
& video classifieds.