Tips for Sharing Wedding Photos Online with Family and Friends

We love sharing our best moments with our dear ones. A wedding is one such event when your finest moments are made by your friends and family. It is natural that you will have tons of wedding and post wedding photos that you would want to share with them. Here are some tips on how you can do this.

• The best way to share your wedding photos with friends and family is to host them online. Many websites offer free or paid services to host your digital photos online.

• Avoid emailing the photos because most email accounts have a storage limit and your wedding photos are likely to be large files with high resolution. It is time consuming to attach many pictures. Besides, large attachments may be rejected by your recipient's mailboxes.

• Free sites usually compress your digital photos to reduce their size on their storage devices. This causes the pictures to lose resolution and makes them unfit for large prints. Paid sites will let you keep the original resolution but will charge you based on your total storage requirements. Since you will have a large number of wedding pictures, you could host some select photos with high resolution on a paid site and upload the bulk of pictures on a free site. Your friends and family can order prints off the paid site if they like a copy.

• Your wedding and post wedding photos will most certainly need a good bit of organization for easy access. Most sites let you organize your wedding photos, tag them, add notes or descriptions to your albums, etc. So use these features to make navigating through your album simpler for yourself and your friends.

• Typically the sites support thumbnail and slideshow views - this provides for easy viewing. You may also be able to add video clips to the albums. You can customize your album cover and colors on most sites.

• Some websites allow your online visitors to comment in your guestbook. Some paid sites may also let you blog alongside your albums - here you can pen your thoughts about the wedding or anything else in detail. It is great way to reach out to your audiences.

• Make sure you set access settings appropriately in the albums. Do not allow albums to be viewed by the general public - this can result is loss of personal information. Set viewer privileges such that only authorized users can access your album. The website link you send out to your friends will contain the access key.

• Hosting your digital photos online also automatically provides you with a backup for the pictures.

Before you sign up for a paid service, see what features you need and shop for the best prices.