Before the advent of digital photography, the number of pictures that anyone could take was limited by the number of exposures on any individual roll of film. Digital cameras are different, of course, with the only limits being set by the size of a camera’s memory. The same effect is apparent where digital photo prints are concerned. Not only is it easy to take hundreds of photographs and store them safely, but it’s also simple to go through them, choose your favourite images and have them turned into photographs. When you’re looking for a place to store all of these images, a photo book often represents the very best option.
It’s difficult for anyone who wasn’t around at the time to appreciate just how much of an inconvenience photo developing used to represent before the advent of digital technology. The images were, of course, captured onto a physical roll of film and, in the first place, this had to be carefully removed from the camera and then handed over to a specialised laboratory to be developed. Many times, this meant posting the film away and hoping that it arrived in one piece, and that the same would be true, eventually, of your photographs. Even if you weren’t relying on the post, there would frequently be a gap of at least several days, if not more than a week, between taking the film out of your camera and getting to see the finished results.
Digital photo prints, of course, couldn’t be more different. In the comfort of your own home, you can upload the images you want to your computer and then print off as many copies as you like, even altering such factors as the colour balance and the cropping as you go along. Even if you don’t have this fairly basic equipment, a trip to a local chemist or supermarket should provide the necessary facilities. The chief advantages of digital photo printing, then, are the convenience and ease of its’ processes, alongside the relative low cost of the finished articles, and the wide number of things you can do with your images. It’s not merely a question of photo printing and how easy it is, it’s about what you can then do with the photo prints you’ve got. Multiple copies are as simple as pressing a button and your favourite photographs can be turned into any one of a huge number of photo gifts and special items.
For example, one of the safest, most luxurious and impressive of the ways of storing your many photographs is to have them printed in a bespoke photo book. Whereas, once, a luxury volume such as this was available only for professionals, it’s now possible for anybody to collect together all of their favourite childhood photographs, for example, or a pictorial record of a holiday of a lifetime, and have them printed on the very best quality photographic paper and bound to the highest standards. No experience is necessary. The design, layout, size and shape of your book are all in your hands, and, once you’ve uploaded the images in question, the software makes it easy to produce a book which exactly matches your requirements. From front cover to back, it will all be set out exactly as you choose, and the finished product will be fit to grace anyone’s bookcase or coffee table.
