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Rollip Turns Any Photo Into A Polaroid Look-Alike!

Rollip.com has developed a new site that lets you give any digital picture the classic look and feel of a vintage or Polaroid picture, and I am having a blast with it!

This actually is MY Christmas tree, by the way, from one of the “experiments” I was doing as I played around on the Rollip website.  It’s so easy – the website guides you through each simple step -  and such fun!

Rollip’s website gives people many more options than most similar sites, I’ve discovered.  There are many options for customization, as well as better quality effects of various kinds.  Rollip’s format – online – makes it much easier to share pictures across the social web.

Rollip is also addictive: I’ve been playing with it all evening!

You can also share your newly-made “vintage” pictures via email, as well as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and almost every other social media outlet.

Go on, click on Rollip.com and give it a try.  You’ll be hooked, too.  And just think how cool your wireless/digital picture frame will be, with all those “Polaroids” slideshowing across it!

Mother’s Day is May 10: Get That Wireless/Digital Picture Frame Loaded Up For Her!

Mother’s Day is just around the corner – May 10 – and I can tell you for a fact that Mom would LOVE to have a wireless/digital picture frame instead of the usual candles, flowers, colognes, and shower gels.  Not that Mom doesn’t like those things, but let’s face it: she already has a house full of those things.

But think about a wireless/digital picture frame for Mom:  preloaded full of you, the kids, the dog, the cat, the neighbors, the vacations, the memories. . . . . What cologne can rival that?

Why don’t you scan a lot of her old standard photos and put them on the frame, too?  Back before the days of digital camera, Mom was taking lots of pictures and filing them away in albums, shoeboxes, and big envelopes.  She hasn’t seen most of those pictures in ten years or more, and it would absolutely THRILL her to see them slideshowing past on that wireless/digital picture frame!

Whether your mom has a computer or not. . . whether she’s tech-savvy or not. . . . and even if she doesn’t have a wireless connection in her house, you can give your mother a wireless/digital picture frame loaded full to bursting with that best gift of all:  memories.

There are many excellent wireless/digital picture frames from which to choose, too; for example, Kodak, Digital Spectrum, Giant, Phillips,  Samsung, D-Link, Edge, PhotoVu. . . these are all reputable wireless/digital picture frame brands, and all the better than usual because they are all FrameChannel-compatible!

FrameChannel Saved My Family Pictures!

My computer crashed last week.  Completely.

I had just finished scanning and saving the last of my mother’s family pictures, too.  Hours and hours and hours of work, lost.  Or so I thought.

Guess what, though.  When I looked at my wireless digital picture frame – my beautiful Digital Spectrum MF8104 -  on the back of my piano, it was still slideshowing pictures, just like always.  Nothing seemed to be missing at all.

I logged in to my FrameChannel account and lo!  There were all my pictures!  FrameChannel was still pulling them out of my Flickr and Picasa accounts, plus, I’d saved most of them directly onto FrameChannel!

All that work, SAVED!  Thank you, FrameChannel.  I loved you before; I thought you were the best content provider before, and now I know for dead sure: you’re the VERY BEST content provider EVER!!!!!!

Putting Old Prints on your Wireless Digital Picture Frame

Ever since I got my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, I’ve been borrowing pictures from friends and relatives to add to my FrameChannel account so they can be added to my slideshow.  Recent pictures are all digital, of course, and those are a cinch to add to FrameChannel.  I also want old and older pictures, though, and most of my family don’t even have a negative for those any more.  Those pictures must be scanned.

There are all kinds of scanners: big ones, small ones, expensive ones, less expensive ones. . . . the best ones, of course, cost a lot. There are profesional scanners made especially for photographs, too.

Until such time as you can get your hands on a professional top-knotch scanner, however, you can make do with the scanner you probably already have.  Mine is a a Canon Canoscan D646Uex.  It was never really intended for pictures, but I’ve been scanning old photographs with it for months now, and it does a pretty good job!

I’ve had my scanner for several years; I think it cost well under a hundred dollars at the time.

Digital pictures look the best, naturally, but I’m serious when I tell you that the really, really old photographs that I scanned onto my computer with that old Canon Canoscan D646Uex scanner look really good on my wireless picture frame.  A professional photographer or artist might be able to tell the difference, but I can’t.

When you buy a wireless/digital picture frame for older people, especially, they’re going to want to see their older pictures on it.  That means a scanner, but don’t panic.  I can tell you from experience that your old scanner will work just fine.

If you’re loaded with cash, you can take the old pictures in and have a professional scan them for you with a fancy, expensive, professional scanner, but if you’re like me, that’s completley out of your reach.

Just use the scanner you’ve already got.  It does take a while, but the results are worth it.

These are my husband’s grandparents.  This picture was taken back in the Roaring Twenties.  Was it digital?  Not hardly.  But it is now.

With a little patience, and a LOT of time, you can scan all of your family’s old photographs and put them on your wireless picture frame.  You an also email them to people and otherwise share them.

Scanning these old pictures also preserves them.  Old pictures tend to fade, and it would be terrible indeed if your family’s cache of memories were lost.

Save them, and look at them anew, on your wireless digital picture frame.