Small and fast = )

Digital Photos can be quite large, especially as camera manufacturers are continually upping the megapixel count, often without improving the image quality. If you just want the photos for a website, blog, facebook or to email to relatives, you usually don’t need to send the full image. In fact you can do your bit for more responsible use of band width but optimizing the size of your image. Even if you have a reasonably fast net connection you will probably find that the conversion time is more than rewarded in upload time once you are processing more than one or two photos
Image Optimizer is really neat service (with a free downloadable version, that can do bulk conversions). I have previously posted about windows live & picassa’s ability to export & email smaller version of photos.
Here is a useful table for common sizes, you can click on the size descriptor to see an example of that image size.

Suggested Pixels	Max Width	Max Height
Small Web Photo	640	360
Blog Photo	400	300
Email	800	600
Flickr/Photobucket	800	600
Normal Print 10 by 15cm (4 by 6”)	1200	800

Remember which ever approach you use, keep the original photos and just use the converted files for the upload or email (then delete them)

Modern Photo Shoebox :: Digital Camera to CD

Back in the days of film, or even slides, photos that didn't make it into an album, or frame, disappeared into a shoebox. there was seldom any order or logic, negatives, prints and maybe if your were lucky a few notes might be penciled on the back. Well its not a lot different with digital pictures only the shoebox is now a CD, or set of CDs (maybe even a DVD) and probably they are no better organized than the old shoe box

So I thought it might be interesting discussing the various ways you can build and collate your collection of digital images, both with and without a plan to keep them organized. 

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As I go I will update links from here to related stories, but you can also just watch the blog for them to appear in no particular order.