Tip: Turn Your Vacations into Wallpapers
March 30, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Digital Cameras
A great way to maximize your vacation expenses is to use your camera to save memorable moments for posterity. This could be photos of you and your loved ones, with a wonderful vista set as the backdrop.
But no one said you could snap these vistas without anyone posing in the foreground and use them as wallpapers. Better yet, if you have your own website(s), you can offer these home-made wallpapers as downloads to attract readers to your online properties.
Sometimes you come by these wallpaper opportunities thanks to pure luck. After a night of drinking at the beach, I ended up sleeping on a deck chair, with the crashing waves lulling me to sleep. A few hours later, the beautiful sunrise woke up. Luckily, my point-and-shoot was in my pocket, so I groggily pulled myself up, ambled closer to the water to compose a better picture. After snapping a photo for the ages (and my desktop), I dragged myself back to the deck chair and continued sleeping.
Of course, you have to size your landscape photos into sizes that work well with your display. Two great (and free) solutions are Picasa and resize2email.com. The former is a great photo manager, and allows you to somewhat control image resizing via its export function. If you’re looking for better control over the resizing process, you can give the latter—or any powerful photo editor like Photoshop—a try.
(image courtesy of Rey Agapito)
