Digital Photo Frames, Prints, and Photo Books
Besides Dad’s monster HD TV, the coolest way to display photographs is a digital picture frame. Imagine a rotating slideshow of family and vacation photos — and the Ferrari he wishes he had — hanging on his office wall. And for your college-bound grad, how about a collection of family and high school memories to hang in his or her new dorm-room?
Multimedia picture frames, offered by Kodak and other manufacturers, can play videos and MP3 music recordings in addition to pictures, while wireless digital frames let friends and family around the world upload and download photos via a standard WiFi computer network. Some digital picture frames can even be bought with pre-installed photos!
Digital picture frames run from $60 to $200.
Even old-school standbys like framed prints, enlargements and posters have expanded to include fun collages and canvas prints that look like fine-art paintings. How about a canvas “painting” from one of Dad’s gorgeous vacation sunset photos? Or a collage made with pictures of your son or daughter and their high school friends?
Photo books are an upgrade to the traditional photo album. It’s fun to upload pictures to sites like the Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Lulu or Apple’s iPhoto and use their design templates. Consider a pocket-sized album filled with pictures of your grad’s friends, family and pets, or a glossy coffee-table book showing off the old man’s favorite golf course photos.
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Keychain digital frames let your Dad or grad carry photos with them everywhere they go. Find them at Amazon.com or brick-and-mortar retailers like Target, Best Buy and Brookstone.
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If your pops already has a good digital SLR and you think a new lens would be a better gift, here’s a Top Five Lenses guide I wrote a couple of months ago: http://www.photographyreview.com/reviews/blog/top-five-lenses-2009-tax-refund/