photo's

[ste v]

ive got load of photos from my travels but there all mixed up on 3 sd cards - is there a company that can put them all in order (by date) and put them on a cd for me ???

[jno]

I don't know if everyone's computer works the same, but when I download photos onto mine and put them all in one folder, it gives me the option of arranging them in various different ways; and one of these is in the order the pictures were taken. I can then copy them to a CD in the same order. So you might be able to do it yourself.

[Sammy Snake]

Have to agree with jno, surely you can do it yourself. It isn't difficult and would be a damn site cheaper.

If you can't manage this, email them all to me and I'll do it for �20.

[DonKiddick]

I would have thought that any of the well known High Street photo processors (Boots, Jessops, Asda) could do this. Certainly Boots used to do it; however the last time I asked them they got a bit sniffy and said that they they would only do it if I had the photos printed as well. This is not a good idea because (a) you may not want everything printing and (b) you can guarantee that a goodly number of the prints will have important areas cropped off because of the difference in aspect ratios of the picture as taken and the typical print size of 6 x4. I now do exactly as jno says and do it myself. You may need to get yourself a card reader (about a tenner from www.7dayshop.com) so that you can actually copy the pictures from your card to your computer / CD writer.

[Bohne]

Agree with jno!

This is what I would do (takes a little time though)
Download them onto your Computer, sort them by date.
Look at all of them and rename them with a starting number like:

001_me_in_corsica.jpg
002_corsica_drinking_beer.jpg
003_peter_and_sue_on_the_boat.jpg
.
.

I then usually edit the photographs, crop them, take out red eyes, sharpen, throw out the really bad ones.
This gives them a new datestamp, but by renaming them first, you will always be able to put them in order.

Then you can put them on a CD.

[smudge]

I do exactly that Bohne. So much easier to sort through!

[jno]

I also improve my photos like Bohne (I have Photoshop on my computer) but remember if you do that, always take a copy of the photo to work on. That way if anything goes wrong or you just don't like what you've done, the original is untouched.

[Dom Tuk]

after doing all that you see it a couple of times and then you will never see it again. it goes the way of all photographs......in a cupboard or in the attic.

[jno]

tut tut, not at all, Dom Tuk, I keep my photos on my computer and often look at them to remind me of places far away... here's one I took earlier this month, of the inside of the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai (it's the atrium of a Hyatt)...

http://i11.tinypic.com/4bnvodg.jpg