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Producing Family Slideshows For Sale
Producing Family Slideshows For Sale
Today's geographically dispersed families find it difficult to visit and maintain in-person contact with one another. Those who suffer the most from this isolation are the senior citizens - those folks whose health or financial resources may prevent long distance travel to visit family members. Our senior citizens crave family mementoes and photographs. They may not have a computer to receive email, or may lack the computer skills needed to display emailed digital photographs. Now, on the other hand, distant family members struggle to think of suitable gifts for their senior members.
Here's a unique and most welcome gift that you can promote with your digital photography. It's one that solves the gift giving problem while lessening the senior citizen's sense of isolation.
You compile a large selection of family photographs and then burn them to a CD or DVD, using slideshow or presentation software such as Photodex's ProShow (http://www.photodex.com/). Next, package the DVD with a small, portable DVD player. Amazon sells these little DVD players at prices ranging from about $30 to $200. The Panasonic DVD-LS80 8.5" Portable DVD Player gets the highest ratings from customers. I would avoid the really tiny players with the 2.5" inch screens. Elderly eyes have problems with such tiny displays and arthritic fingers struggle with the miniature buttons and dials.
Do remember to test your DVD disk on the player before turning it over to the family. When we're dealing with electronics, things can and do go wrong. To provide this digital photography service, you will need to contract with a family member. That person, in turn, is responsible for collecting photos from other family members. Do not fall into the trap of contacting distant family members yourself. You will waste endless hours reminding people to get their photos in the mail, or whatever the agreed upon delivery method is. You might take the photographs of a local family personally, if you choose.
Let your contact person know, however, that family members do not need to part with treasured photographs for this package. They can scan the photos and send the digital copies to the contact person, who passes them along to you. Alternatively, they can take their photographs to a store such as Staples that provides high quality photocopying services. There, they can photocopy their pictures onto glossy, snapshot quality paper. You later scan these copies and the family members keep the originals.
When the person you contract with produces the photos from other people, you create your slide show presentation. You can get special software programs that create stand-alone slide shows, or you could make a PowerPoint presentation and burn the free PowerPoint viewer onto the DVD disk.
Please be sure to remind the family that the senior citizen may require help learning to use the DVD disk and player. Ask them to arrange for someone to provide this help if necessary. This is a unique gift and a wonderful use for your digital photography and digital photo editing skills.
And, even better, you can sell updates for future years. Once the senior has the DVD player, he or she will appreciate receiving additional DVD presentations of birthday parties, reunions, new homes purchased, family vacations and so forth.
Best of luck with your new digital photography business.
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