Take a "spare" memory card to the photo-booth

This is a time-saving tip that I hit on when I wanted to put together a photo album for a friend following a holiday we'd shared in Turkey. Like most people, I'd taken hundreds of digital photos and off-loaded them onto the computer. I had in mind that a memories album of about 12 or 20 shots would be about the right size.

By the time I'd come up with this idea I'd put the memory card back in the camera and was steadily filling it again with the usual family stuff.

I remembered that the camera had arrived with quite a small capacity memory card in it that was just sitting in the drawer after being upgraded with the large capacity card I'd taken to Turkey. So this had the makings of a plan.

I put the "small" card in the card reader slot of the PC and brought up on-screen the thumbnail icons in the "Turkey" folder. I could then easily scroll through all the likely shots and drag the best 20 onto the small memory card. Any photos that had any doubt over sharpness etc I could bring up on-screen to check before dragging onto the memory card. By the end of this exercise I'd got the best 20 shots on the memory card which I then took down to the DIY photo booth in Morrison's. I selected the print size and simply clicked "select all" and hit print. All my decision-making was done with the convenience of a large-screen display and the time in Morrison's was kept to an absolute minimum. Good result!

Hope you find this useful.