Taking pictures is by far the best way to keep a senior trip alive in your hearts for years to come. Documenting the amazing food, awe-inspiring landmarks and friendly faces can be one of the best parts of coming home.
Everyone loves to share their experiences during vacation, so sharing pictures has always been popular. Sharing pictures online is a new phenomenon, one that many seniors might be hesitant to try, but is actually simple to do!
The first piece of camera travel advice is to take pictures with a digital camera. This allows easy transfer of the pictures from your camera to the computer. Having your pictures on the computer will allow for easy organization and editing. Yes, YOU can edit your own pictures! Trust us when we say it’s not as hard as you think!
The next piece of travel advice is to use free stuff as much as possible! This continues when you get home and are trying to organize and edit your pictures. There are free online sites that can help organize your pictures. Some examples are
- Picasa.com
- Citrify.com
- FotoFlexer.com
These sites are all considered online editing tools that allow you to organize and edit your photos using free software with a few clicks! If a picture does not come out bright enough, click on the exposure button and decide how dark or light you want it!
Picassa
Picassa.com is through Google and needs to be downloaded before you can use it. Along with the basic editing tools of cropping, enhancing color and rotating, you can organize pictures into multiple albums as well as geo-tag photos so you can remember where you took them!
Citrify
Take away blemishes, erase wrinkles and take away red eye with this easy-to-use online editing tool that does not need any preregistration or download. The images can be easily redownloaded back to your computer after they have been edited, and sent to a photo printing studio with professional styled photos.
FotoFlexer
This online editing tool has more advanced options that seniors might need more practice with, but offer fun options to the typical photo styling. You can edit your photos to look like a sketch or painting, or turn them black and white with the click of a mouse. This option is also great for printing out pictures for presents. There is a magazine cover option that imposes any of your pictures onto a magazine cover so it looks like the people in your pictures are celebrities!
