If you’re like my family, when you come home from a trip, you end up with 4 cameras’ worth of photos.\u00a0 Some of them are duplicates of the same scene, some don’t turn out, but you may end up with hundreds<\/em> of stunning images chronicling that once-in-a-lifetime trip.\u00a0 And they end up languishing on your computer’s hard drive until you burn them to a disk or – heaven forbid – they are lost when your computer crashes.<\/p>\n
To preserve, showcase or share your photos, you have several options. You can print them all on photo paper, and, along with all your brochures and ticket stubs, make a really nice scrapbook that you’ll treasure for years.\u00a0 I’ve got boxes of scrapbooks – unfortunately, “some assembly is required.”\u00a0 On the other hand, you can share them on an online photo service, or spend a little cash and publish a “photo book.”\u00a0 You can invite friends and family over, and huddle around the computer monitor clicking through the photos one by one.<\/p>\n
But why not have them turned into a video?\u00a0\u00a0 Then you can watch them on your DVD player\/television, post them online for faraway friends or family, or send copies to them in the mail (better yet, you can have TAZM Pictures duplicate them for you!)<\/p>\n
Think of a video slide show as a kind of electronic scrapbook – only more.\u00a0 You can include all your best photos, scan all those brochures and ticket stubs; have them digitally enhanced; add some sound and visual effects, opening and closing titles and credits, transitions and subtitles or captions, and then have the whole thing synched to a piece of theme-specific music so that the whole thing really POPS.\u00a0 For those of you old enough to remember endless slide shows on a projector at Grandpa’s, \nit’s the same concept, only taken to a whole new level.\u00a0 Using software-driven zooms, pans and other effects, you may even forget they’re still<\/em> photos!<\/p>\n