Photo Show-Off

I've always envied WHAMs or SAHMs since I'm still figuring out how to be one. But I'm more envious of moms who can make scrapbook albums out of their children's/family's photos.

Why? First, scrapbooking and photo collages takes tons of time to do. You will have to figure out the look you want, find elements and pieces for your chosen theme then put them all together so that it'll look somewhat artistic. Second, you'll need more time to take those photos, collate/organize them or even process/edit them. But if you need less-hassle ways of preserving and/or presenting your photos, here are some highly recommended sites which does the job in lesser time and hopefully lesser effort.

Scrapblog.com

This site isn't on top of my list for nothing. Its easy to use, they've got tons ready-to-use themes which you can edit, edit, edit to your heart's content. Delete or add elements in a click of a button and upload photos, the drag-and-drop way. You can download hi-res versions for printing or leave them online for the world to see.

The Good: unlimited photos and page hosting

The Bad: Requires fast internet connection (at least 384kbps), sometimes hangs, sometimes slow, takes a lot of processing speed because its flash-based

Shutterfly.com

This old photo-album site has a new feature, photo collages. Create collages from your uploaded photos and voila, you're good to go! Themes are more simple with scrapbook-like backgrounds. You can also create nifty gifts by pasting your photos on different items like puzzles and playing cards or have your creations printed in a book. Is that sweet or what?

The Good: unlimited photo hosting, printing and shipping anywhere, promo of free 15 prints just shoulder $5 shipping until October 2007

The Bad: Can't download your creations unless you get a screenshot of it, oh-so limited backgrounds

MyAlbumMaker.com

This is similar to Scrapblog but with simpler templates for that no-fuss, layouts. It has less options than Scrapblog but more than Shutterfly. You can also save a low-res version on your computer by printing it out using the "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer".

The Good: Easiest to use of the three

The Bad: Saves only low-res version of photo

More help...

With the arrival of high megapixel cams (and their humongous files), uploading to websites and photo sharing is fast becoming a chore. Here's an app (developed by Microsoft) which you can download for FREE (ding!ding!ding!) and makes image-resizing a breeze. All you have to do is select/highlight the photos you want to resize from the file explorer, right click then select "Resize Pictures" from the menu. Click on the new size you want and viola! Smaller pictures without compromising quality.

Download the uber-useful app here or view more cool apps here.

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