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Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Need Old Photos » 09 mai 2005 17:14:10

Hello, I am currently building a website for a software product that manages
digital photo collections on your computer. One of the features of the
product is that you can create slideshows from your photos. I would like to
create a sample slideshow composed of old photos of ancestors. This is an
important sample for me to show because with the software, you can add
graphical markers to highlight important features in a photo. For example, I
will be adding colored arrows to the photos to point at each person in the
image, and build a list of names that correspond to each arrow.

So, I am looking for people who would like to give me a copy of one or more
of their digital photos of ancestors! The names can be real or fictitious,
it's up to you. I will be building a sample of about 20 photos in all.

I've left out the name of the product so that I'm not accused of spamming :)
If you have any questions, or would like to participate, you can email me at
my temporary yahoo account: needoldphotos@yahoo.com . I'll be deleting this
account once this project is complete.

Thanks very much in advance!
John

Sherry

Re: Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Sherry » 09 mai 2005 18:57:05

"Need Old Photos" <needoldphotos@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:bYLfe.15565$B82.341357@news20.bellglobal.com:

Hello, I am currently building a website for a software product that
manages digital photo collections on your computer. One of the
features of the product is that you can create slideshows from your
photos. I would like to create a sample slideshow composed of old
photos of ancestors. This is an important sample for me to show
because with the software, you can add graphical markers to
highlight important features in a photo. For example, I will be
adding colored arrows to the photos to point at each person in the
image, and build a list of names that correspond to each arrow.

So, I am looking for people who would like to give me a copy of one
or more of their digital photos of ancestors! The names can be real
or fictitious, it's up to you. I will be building a sample of about
20 photos in all.

I've left out the name of the product so that I'm not accused of
spamming :) If you have any questions, or would like to participate,
you can email me at my temporary yahoo account:
needoldphotos@yahoo.com . I'll be deleting this account once this
project is complete.

Thanks very much in advance!
John


Don't you have any of your own photos? Certainly you can come up with
20 pictures of your own family that you can use? Since this is
something in development, you could use pictures of locations or pets
even. Why not a pic of the monkey cage at the zoo and use pointers to
the different monkeys there?

Your message makes no sense - you want photos of ancestors to build a
website but will delete everything once it's done?

I'd be hesitant to give any of my family photos to someone developing a
software program without some sort of protection for my own photos. Is
there a contract involved for those who want to "loan" you the photos?
Do they retain ownership or do you take ownership of the picture once
they've sent it to you? Why would we trust our family photos with
someone who only uses a temporary email address for contact? We don't
even know who you are!

Sorry, I certainly wouldn't send anything to you!

Sherry

Need Old Photos

Re: Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Need Old Photos » 09 mai 2005 19:18:59

Sherry,

Sorry, my post was obviously unclear!

What I'm looking for are very old photos, say 75-100 years old. You know,
the classic "ancestor" photos you see of often grim-looking people in front
of an old farmhouse. :) I'm not looking for recent family photos - like you
said, I already have some of those. I'm trying to create a sample that shows
how useful it would be to be able to add labeled markers to your old photos
in order to remember who's who in ancestor pics. I thought the best place to
find such samples would be in a genealogy forum.

When I said I was going to delete an account, I just meant the scratch yahoo
account I created for this query. The photos will remain on the software
product's website. The owner retains full ownership of the photo, and can
ask me to remove them at any time.

I guess I'm a little too paranoid about spammers, because they bother me so
much. So I didn't want to name the product for fear of this post sounding
like it was a cheap way to advertise my website. Hence the temporary yahoo
account for initial contact.

I've sent you an email from my permanent email account, with details about
the website, as I will to anyone who wants more info. Although in
retrospect, I suspect this isn't the best way to get sample ancestor photos
:)

Thanks,
John


"Sherry" <sherdh@excite.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96516F6E0FD90TansyRagwortNetscape@216.196.97.142...
Don't you have any of your own photos? Certainly you can come up with
20 pictures of your own family that you can use? Since this is
something in development, you could use pictures of locations or pets
even. Why not a pic of the monkey cage at the zoo and use pointers to
the different monkeys there?

Your message makes no sense - you want photos of ancestors to build a
website but will delete everything once it's done?

I'd be hesitant to give any of my family photos to someone developing a
software program without some sort of protection for my own photos. Is
there a contract involved for those who want to "loan" you the photos?
Do they retain ownership or do you take ownership of the picture once
they've sent it to you? Why would we trust our family photos with
someone who only uses a temporary email address for contact? We don't
even know who you are!

Sorry, I certainly wouldn't send anything to you!

Sherry

Kalish

Re: Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Kalish » 10 mai 2005 02:24:12

On Mon, 9 May 2005 12:14:10 -0400, "Need Old Photos"
<needoldphotos@yahoo.com> wrote:

So, I am looking for people who would like to give me a copy of one or more
of their digital photos of ancestors! The names can be real or fictitious,
it's up to you. I will be building a sample of about 20 photos in all.

Go on ebay and do a search for "antique" or "vintage" photos - and
download the photos from the auctions. Most of them will be cartes
de visite or some such of unknown and long dead persons. K.

Need Old Photos

Re: Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Need Old Photos » 10 mai 2005 15:09:55

Thanks to all those who responded with photos and ideas of where to get
photos. I now have enough for my project.

Thank again!
John

Gjest

Re: Need old photos for website

Legg inn av Gjest » 11 mai 2005 11:25:08

When you start to make your photo slideshow, you can give Photo2VCD/DVD
a thought. a practical program worths my recommendation.
http://www.photo2vcd.com

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