Digital photo picture frames have suddenly become a rage among the tech savvy generation of today.
However, it is not only because they are, more or less a small computer that can display photographs taken with digital camera or mobile phones and even loaded from computer or web, but also because they eliminate the need of printing images, maintaining photo albums and can display your pictures crystal clear! So, how to use digital frames and more importantly how to download pictures on them? How to Use a Digital Picture Frame? Your digital photo frame can display your favorite images as slideshow, sometimes even with attractive transitions between images.
However, for this, you must store these images in a single folder, just as you do it on your computer.
You have to copy paste the pictures from your computer and save them in your digital frames' memory or you must download pictures on it through various means as described below in this article.
You must also change the pictures' orientation before you upload them.
For example, if your frame is set up to sit landscape, then you must set all the pictures you will load to landscape orientation.
Many digital photo frames, however, automatically rotate the images so that they are displayed the right way up.
How to Load Pictures on Digital Frame? There are many ways to load, or precisely said, download pictures on a digital frame.
You can load images from your own computer, digital camera, a memory card or USB stick etc.
Here we give some tips to load pictures via these and many more means.
Memory Cards- Memory cards are the most common method to load pictures on frames.
Most of them accept the same type of card as your camera.
If anyway, your card is not supported then you may use an adapter.
The number of images that you will be able to display is usually limited by the number that fits the card.
Internal Memory- A digital frame generally comes with some internal memory to store a permanent collection of photos.
You can generally select the photos to move into internal memory but some of them also store images that have been downloaded by e-mail, RSS and other ways.
USB- There are USB outlets on the device that can be used to connect it to a computer by cable.
You can then easily load pictures by copying them from your computer.
Phone Line Connection- You can even plug it into a phone jack and use a modem to dial up a Web site and download photos from online albums.
This lets you and your family as well as friends to share images among yourselves! Wireless Technique- Wi fi enabled picture frames allow you to put it on your home or office network and convert it into just another drive.
You can download pictures directly from a WiFi-enabled digital camera that is supported by the frame.
E-mail- You can set-up a free e-mail account so that your frame has a separate e-mail address dedicated entirely to it.
Anyone can e-mail photos to the device this way.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication)- If you maintain web album online (like Flicker or Google's Picasa Web Albums), RSS can let you download selected pictures from these Web sites too.
The frame here becomes the feed reader getting pictures from RSS feed service supplied by the website.
Bluetooth- The more advanced features like bluetooth lets you transfer pictures to your frame from any other bluetooth device including camera phone.
However, it is not only because they are, more or less a small computer that can display photographs taken with digital camera or mobile phones and even loaded from computer or web, but also because they eliminate the need of printing images, maintaining photo albums and can display your pictures crystal clear! So, how to use digital frames and more importantly how to download pictures on them? How to Use a Digital Picture Frame? Your digital photo frame can display your favorite images as slideshow, sometimes even with attractive transitions between images.
However, for this, you must store these images in a single folder, just as you do it on your computer.
You have to copy paste the pictures from your computer and save them in your digital frames' memory or you must download pictures on it through various means as described below in this article.
You must also change the pictures' orientation before you upload them.
For example, if your frame is set up to sit landscape, then you must set all the pictures you will load to landscape orientation.
Many digital photo frames, however, automatically rotate the images so that they are displayed the right way up.
How to Load Pictures on Digital Frame? There are many ways to load, or precisely said, download pictures on a digital frame.
You can load images from your own computer, digital camera, a memory card or USB stick etc.
Here we give some tips to load pictures via these and many more means.
Memory Cards- Memory cards are the most common method to load pictures on frames.
Most of them accept the same type of card as your camera.
If anyway, your card is not supported then you may use an adapter.
The number of images that you will be able to display is usually limited by the number that fits the card.
Internal Memory- A digital frame generally comes with some internal memory to store a permanent collection of photos.
You can generally select the photos to move into internal memory but some of them also store images that have been downloaded by e-mail, RSS and other ways.
USB- There are USB outlets on the device that can be used to connect it to a computer by cable.
You can then easily load pictures by copying them from your computer.
Phone Line Connection- You can even plug it into a phone jack and use a modem to dial up a Web site and download photos from online albums.
This lets you and your family as well as friends to share images among yourselves! Wireless Technique- Wi fi enabled picture frames allow you to put it on your home or office network and convert it into just another drive.
You can download pictures directly from a WiFi-enabled digital camera that is supported by the frame.
E-mail- You can set-up a free e-mail account so that your frame has a separate e-mail address dedicated entirely to it.
Anyone can e-mail photos to the device this way.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication)- If you maintain web album online (like Flicker or Google's Picasa Web Albums), RSS can let you download selected pictures from these Web sites too.
The frame here becomes the feed reader getting pictures from RSS feed service supplied by the website.
Bluetooth- The more advanced features like bluetooth lets you transfer pictures to your frame from any other bluetooth device including camera phone.