CHAPTER 9 Personal Accessories 137 Putting Your Photos in a Traditional Photo Album 138 Putting Your Photos on Coffee Mugs 138 Ironing Your Photos on T-Shirts 139 Making Business Cards with Your Photos at MOO.com 142 Burning Your Photos onto a Gift CD 143 Creating a Greeting Card Online 144 Creating Custom Postage Stamps with Your Photos at Stamps.com 146 CHAPTER 10 Getting Published 149 Making Your Photos Web Ready 150 Making Your Photos Magazine Ready 152 Writing a How-To Photo Book 153 Entering a Photography Competition 155 Self-Publishing a Photo Book Using Blurb 156 Submitting Photos to the Big-Time Media Outlets for Publication 157 Getting Your Photo Noticed on Google 159 Using BigHugeLabs to Publish Photo Posters, Jigsaw Puzzles, Comicbook Captions, and More 161 CHAPTER 11 Promoting Yourself 163 Building a Website That Respects Your Budget 164 Knowing What You Want on Your Website 166 Letting Others Know about Your Website/Blog 168 Using Twitter to Announce Your Events/Activities 169 Creating a Print Photography Portfolio 170 Creating a Google Knol 172 Interacting with Others Online 172 Pounding the Pavement 174 CHAPTER 12 Working with Slideshows 177 Making a Movie from Your Images Using iMovie 178 Making a Movie from Your Images Using Windows Movie Maker 179 Making a Slideshow Using Picasa 181 x ■ Contents Putting Your Slideshow on YouTube 182 From iMovie 183 From Movie Maker 183 From Picasa 184 Embedding a Slideshow on Your Blog 184 On Blogger 185 On WordPress 185 Using Slide.com to Make a Slideshow 186 Making and Sharing Your Slideshow at Slideroll.com 187 Showing Your Slideshows on TV 189 CHAPTER 13 Film to Digital 191 Sorting through Your Old Photos to Prepare Them for Scanning 192 Scanning Prints, Slides, and Negatives 193 Getting Your Photos (Including Negatives) Professionally Scanned 195 INDEX 196 Contents ■ xi Introduction Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. Hidden in various places around the Internet are hundreds of ways to make photos come alive online, in print form, in scrapbooks, on the walls of people’s homes, in blogs, on social networking sites, and in many other places. 101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Digital Photographs takes those who wonder what to do with their photos on a journey where they will immediately discover not only a place to exhibit their work, but also ways to make their photos work for them by selling them online and on the ground. This book is for using, manipulating, posting, sharing, publishing, managing, and promoting photos that you have taken or plan to take. Online platforms will be introduced so that you can begin navigating through the many free sites to put your photos to use. You’ll learn how to use your photos in such online locations as Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket, and Facebook. You’ll learn about everything from free downloadable software to manage your photos, such as Picasa (Google’s photo management program), to programs that are already on your computer, such as iPhoto on a Mac and Windows Live on a PC. This book also walks you through the printing process, from learning about the right type of printer for your needs to finding the best paper to make your photos last nearly forever. If you don’t want to print your photos yourself, the book shows you the most reasonable ways to outsource your printing. Using your photos wouldn’t be complete for some without mentioning the latest in scrapbook- ing trends, including extensive how-to instruction on how to build layers in Photoshop to make the most compelling of scrapbook pages. You’ll learn about how to use digital kits for making scrapbooks as well as places to find great free materials for making scrapbook pages. The book doesn’t omit on-ground techniques for using your photos. Photos these days usually require significant steps to be performed online and on your computer before you can use the images on the ground. You can order mats, frames, and other photo-framing supplies online; make your framed photos on the ground; and sell them online and host photo shows on the ground—all using your photos that are online or on your computer. Let’s not forget selling your photos and promoting yourself so people can find you and your work. This book details the best ways to make your photos a known commodity, and it brainstorms the best places to sell your photos online and on the ground. You’ll learn about how microstock photography, blogs, websites, social networking sites, and photo hosting sites can make or break your photography career. Dig into the book morsel by morsel, enjoying the rewards that can be had by finding new uses for your photography. Introduction ■ xiii . alive online, in print form, in scrapbooks, on the walls of people’s homes, in blogs, on social networking sites, and in many other places. 101 Quick and Easy Secrets for Using Your Digital Photographs. online and host photo shows on the ground—all using your photos that are online or on your computer. Let’s not forget selling your photos and promoting yourself so people can find you and your. performed online and on your computer before you can use the images on the ground. You can order mats, frames, and other photo-framing supplies online; make your framed photos on the ground; and