The 5 best ways to save photos while travelling
Never lose an image again with these handy tips for saving or sharing your digital photos while you’re on the road.
1. Email
This is the simplest, easiest way to save a copy of your pictures online. Email them to yourself or to a friend and then you can download them when ready. It’s also an easy way to keep your contacts up to date with your travels. You will need to think about the size of the files you’re sending. Some digital cameras will give you an option to create smaller files suitable for emailing or you can downsize them yourself on a computer.
2. Cloud
Store all your images safely online in a remote database or ‘cloud’. There are a number of free and paid services available that allow for the quick and easy upload of large numbers of files at once, provided you have a good internet connection. These include Dropbox, Google Drive, Apple iCloud or Amazon Cloud Drive.
3. Sharing service
These sites will let you both store and share your photos in one easy move. Flickr is the most popular and allows you to create a free page for yourself where you can upload multiple images divided into galleries. You can then send the link to your friends and family so that they can see your holiday snaps. Even your own Facebook page is a good spot to keep images and you can control the privacy settings to restrict who has access.
4. Personal website
It’s easy to create your own personal website that you can use as a place to store your images, share them with friends and post blog updates about your travels. Simple blogging sites like WordPress are free and can be customised to suit your needs. It’s a great way to create a record of your travels in an easy to use format and it preserves your photos safely online.
5. Hardware
If you’d prefer to have a physical backup of your photos, then look into additional memory cards or a portable hard drive to take with you. You can download a huge number of photos onto a relatively small drive and then transfer them to your computer when you get home. The one thing to be careful of is losing the device itself – because the photos exist only on the physical drive there is no online backup.
What methods do you use when backing up your travel photos on the road? Do you have any spectacular travel photos you’d like to share?
Let us know in the comments, we’d love to hear from you!
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