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How to Resize Your Photos For E-Mail

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Oct 9th 2007 at 3:29PM



You know all of those extra megapixels you shelled out for when you bought your digital camera? Well, while the higher picture quality will certainly come in handy for running off prints of your more frame-worthy snaps, the bloated file sizes of your photos can be an e-mail killer. Most of the time, the photos coming off of our cameras are a few megabytes each, at least . Chain a couple of those together in an e-mail and it's likely your message will be too big to go through. If it does go through, you run the risk of annoying friends and family who are forced to spend time downloading the photos. What to do? Watch our simple tutorial on resizing photos for e-mail and you'll be spreading the memories in no time.

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Mom Tech for Mother's Day

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted May 10th 2007 at 11:03AM

No idea what to get Mom for Mother's Day this year? Sure, you could be obvious like Dad and get her flowers, or you could get her something she actually needs. With that mission in mind, the Switched staff asked their own Moms what, if anything, they could use make life a little easier. We've selected the perfect gifts based on their responses to bring you this cheat sheet to warming your own Mom's heart this coming holiday.

Dealing with Digital Photos

Mother's Day Wish #1
An Easy-to-Use Photo-Printing Solution

Dear Joshua,

I am struggling with getting pictures off of the digital camera. My wish would be to just be able to put the memory stick directly into the computer and let it automatically transfer the pictures. Then, I could print the pictures to send out. Help!

Love,
Mom


Dear Mom,

I'm giving you something that's even easier to use than a computer: The Sony DPP-FP70 photo printer. It's like having your own photo-processing booth in your home office.

The process is really simple, Mom, so don't be scared! Just pop your memory stick into the unit and you can preview the photos on the printer's screen. You can even touch-up and crop the pictures or correct for red-eye right on the printer. Then you just press the print button and all your snapshots come out looking like standard 4x6 photos like you would get from a developer. If you don't want to get into all that, it even has a one-button touch-up feature that will make your pictures look amazing automatically.

What's more, you can just connect your camera (or any camera that doesn't use a Memory Stick) right to the printer using USB -- you don't even need to use the memory stick if you don't want to.

Happy printing. And get to it -- you owe me pictures of my nieces and nephews!

Love,
Joshua


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Views From a Cell (Updated With Gallery)

by Evan Shamoon, posted May 7th 2007 at 2:56PM

Pro photographer Patrice Elmi has no need for fancy equipment as long as she's got her cell phone on her.

"I used to shoot with a 35 mm Nikon, and I used to carry it around with me all the time in my backpack," says Elmi, who studied photography at both the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute in New York City. "So this one time I forgot it -- we were heading to dinner, and all I had was my cell phone. We got out there and I saw some stuff I wanted to shoot -- and I was thrilled with the results I got from my cell phone camera. I haven't really looked back."

For her new photo exhibit, 'Views From a Cell,' currently on display at the drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles, Elmi snapped photos using only natural early morning or late afternoon sunlight and her LG VX8700's camera. No special lighting, no Photoshop. The photos she wound up with are surprisingly vivid, detailed and, well, art-like.

Elmi's 100 six-inch prints are on display at drkrm until May 19. Preview the show below.

Gallery: Camera Phone Art Show



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The Bionic Wallet

by Tom Conlon, posted Apr 26th 2007 at 10:00AM


Earlier this week we brought you the handbag with a TV screen sutured onto it. But, another day, another LCD-enhanced fashion accessory! This time it's these $50 wallets from Brookstone (available for men and women) featuring a 1.4-inch display on the inside. Plug the wallet into your computer's USB port and upload as many as 55 photos of loved ones to bore strangers with.

From Brookstone
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