How to Take Better Photos - Printing Your Photos

In the third and final part of his mini series professional photographer Andy Newson gives us some tips on printing out your photos.

Computers to not last for ever, CD’s don’t even last forever either despite when they first arrived on the scene, the manufacturers telling us they were virtually indestructible! So my advice is to once a month or every couple of months, have your photographs printed. Those snapshots of you little ones need to be treasured and not lost on a broken computer. Most online printers use a chemical process for photographs and this means the photos have a very long life-span without fading - much longer than the average home office inkjet printer. They’re cheap too and at the moment you’ll find a lot of these online printers offering some really good deals. http://www.photobox.co.uk/ offers prints from just 5p each, other online suppliers include www.snapfish.co.uk and my favourites www.fotobox.co.uk

Having warned of CD’s lifespans, generally they are pretty good and serve as a good back-up to your computer. Some of these online printers even offer a back-up CD service or just burn them to CD yourself every now and again.