Advantages of sharing a digital photo online vs sharing through email

Share Digital Photo Online

Share Digital Photo via Email

Friends or families will receive a simple email inviting them to view your digital photos online when it's convenient for them.

You may be able to send as many pictures as you want but your friend's email capacity may not allow it.

With online photo sites you can share as many photos as you like; with limitless photo albums that can hold hundreds of photos.

Friends will only want to open a few photos; plus, larger emails may not make it past email filters, or computer firewalls. Download and viewing time will increase according to the digital photo's file size and the internet connection speed.

Your digital images are organized in customized albums that showcase each digital photograph with the slideshow feature.

Photos can be gigantic or teeny; you can't control how it will appear on your friends' monitors, or in what order the digital images are opened for viewing. Occasionally, photos may get corrupted during the sending and receiving process.

Your friends can order any print with the click of a button; they can also make photo gifts and add comments to your album if you choose to allow them.

Your friends must first save the photos to their hard drive, then pull them into their printing software, and print. That is if they have a photo printer! Or, the digital photos will have to be downloaded onto the computer, then uploaded to an online photo printing service, or saved a CD or memory card and taken to an in-store photo developing center. It takes time. Time that your friends might not have.

Your digital photos are all in one place, organized by event, date, etc. Special memories are easy for your friends to locate.

The receiver of your digital images now has to organize the photos you've just sent. They now have the problem of where to store digital photos on their computer, and how to find them again.