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Wedding photography is something you must consider when you are planning for your wedding. However, you may also know that the cost of it can be quite hight. It is not surprise to know that there are some couples who spend nearly $3000 on the wedding photography.

If you have enough budget, the above amount may not be a problem to you. However, due to the recently credit crunch, couples would probably want to save some money on the wedding. It is always a good idea to keep some money in your pocket. As a result, you will want to learn some ways to save money on your wedding photos. As a matter of fact, it is not really difficult to do so. Here are some of the ways for you to save money.

Ask Your Friends to Help

One of the ways to save money is to ask your friends to help you to take the wedding photos. However, you do not just ask a friend for the help. You have to ask a friend who can take good photos. Your wedding is one of the most important events in your life. You will still want to have some good wedding photos even if you want to save money.

If it is possible, you should ask at least two friends to help. This will help to make sure that you will be at least getting a set of wedding photos. The point here is that the camera of your friend can be broken on your wedding day. There are sometimes accidents. If you have asked two friends to help, you can still get the photos from the other friend in the case that the camera of one of your friend is broken.

Take digital photos

You will be able to save quite some money if you take digital photos instead of taking photos with films. This is because you will need to spend a lot of money on developing and printing of the photos. However, when digital cameras are used, you do not need to develop the films. Besides, you can take a look at the photos on the computer before you decide you print them. This will help you to save a lot of money.

If you do not want to print the photos, you can save all the digital files in a DVD. In this case you will be able to get a copy of your photos. And of course you will save a lot since you do not need to print the photos. To this end it is also more environmental friendly. And it will also be more convenient for you to share the photos with your friends because you do not need to scan the photos to the computer. You can just upload the files from the DVD to your website. This will save you a lot of time.

Ask the guests to bring their digital cameras

You can ask your guests to bring along with their digital cameras. Your guests can just use the cameras to take photos. In this case the guests are actually helping you to take the photos. Of course you will need to ask them to send you back the photos. But it will not be very difficult since the guests are taking digital photos.

Here’s the top ten list of online tools and resources beginning from online photo editing to powerful photo search engines.I found some site list when access http://www.softwarefreedown.com,and share summary for you

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/

certainly one the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. It helps people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. Flickr gets photos into and out of the system in as many ways as possible: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos. It enables new ways of organizing photos. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos – not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. With Flickr you can create prints, calling cards, photo-books, slideshow-DVDs, postage stamps, and much more.

Picasa

http://picasa.google.com/

a free software download from Google that helps you locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos, share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web. It is fast, easy and free.

Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/

Some of the things you can do on SlideShare

- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.

- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.

- Synch audio to your slides.

- Market your own event on slideshare.

- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests

- Download the original file

Zooomr

http://www.zooomr.com/

you can share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online

Snappages

http://www.snappages.com/

create really easy to use online applications. The online world can be a frustrating one for those who want to use the web for a lot of things but are scared away by how complicated it all seems. It’s our belief that most people don’t want to spend a lot of time or effort trying to figure out how to use an application just to perform what should be a simple task. A good application should handle all the things you don’t want to think about, so you only have to worry about the stuff you do care about.

Zoom and Go

http://www.zoomandgo.com/

inspiring travelers about where to go, what to see, what to do and where to stay based on the experiences of other travelers or on the recommendations from locals around the world.Sharing your travel experiences

Clickfriends

http://www.clickfriends.com/

makes it easy to upload, organize and share your photos online. Create your free account and join the photo-sharing fun. It offers to create unlimited albums, upload you photos to each album, add titles, caption and description to your photos.

DPhoto

http://www.dphoto.com/

share your photos with family and friends in your own online gallery, while also creating a secure backup of all your photos. A free account allows you to store 100 photos. For $7 per month you can store an unlimited number of photos.

Photobucket

http://photobucket.com/

Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video.

Imageshack

http://imageshack.us/

It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions.

Internet, small businesses can use large websites to differentiate themselves from other small businesses. Continuously creating new content can be a challenge, but new content is essential for attracting potential clients while keeping the site fresh for search engines. The greater the number of pages at a site, the better the site looks to search engines. Illustrations are essential for websites. The typical websurfer has limited patience, quickly leaving sites with text-heavy pages. Using illustrated pages can encourage websurfers to remain at your site.

Most small businesses lack the resources to create large websites from scratch. The demands of creating or buying text and photos are too great. Today, the Internet has the answer: Creative Commons. In this article we will show you how you can make a page with free text and free photos from Creative Commons licensed materials. The Creative Commons licenses allows you to use the materials as you like. The only restriction is that you must credit the authors.

Let’s start this process by looking at pictures for ideas. Quickly search the web for Creative Commons Search and you can find their search page. As our site focuses on Japan, I typed in Japan in the search box. Then I checked the two little boxes on the right, modifying my search to only include works that I can use for commercial purposes and that I can edit as I like. Then I looked at my six options: Google, Yahoo!, flickr, blip, OWL music search, and SpinXpress.

I am looking for photos, so I selected flickr. The search provided me with 276,035 options. At flickr, we have three options for sorting the photos: most relevant, most recent and most interesting. I clicked on the last option, most interesting. Many of the most interesting photos are completely irrelevant, like the duck in London, which was the first photo. I selected the seventh picture down, bad luck by kalandrakas. I wanted to use the picture, but the bottom of my browser had a warning: “You should always verify that the work you are re-using has a Creative Commmons license attached to it.”

I scrolled down the photo and saw text saying “Some rights reserved.” The photo passed the first step. To be sure, I clicked the text saying Kanko’s photostream at the top of the page. Then I clicked to reach her profile. Nothing at her profile limited my use of the picture. Some flickr pictures are first identified as fine to use. Then, when you visit the profile, there may be additional limitations. Therefore, I was free to use the photo wherever and however I liked. I decide this picture would be a great shot for a page discussing omikjuji.

So, I went back to the Creative Commons Search search page and typed in omikuji in the search box. Then I checked the two little boxes on the right again and selected Google from the six options. Unfortunately, nothing attractive came up in my search. I then turned to Wikipedia, which is also available as a resource.

Wikipedia contains millions of English articles. All of the written text at Wikipedia is copyleft, not copyright. You are free to borrow any of the written text at Wikipedia to use as is at your site or anywhere else, editing the text as you like. Copyleft means that the text is available to everyone. The top page of the Wikipedia site tells us that we can use the text if we follow the GNU Free Documentation License.

The major restriction is that Wikipedia must be credited for the text. Refer to the copyright if you would like more information. Please note that not all images and sound files are available for use. If you need more information, you could go to Wikipedia.

As this article is being published at article sites that discourage links in the body of the text and copying text, please note that the edited text below is based on information from Wikipedia’s page on omikuji. Here, the writing is different from the text at Wikipedia. This article uses Wikipedia as a source, but you can simply copy your text from Wikipedia and edit it as much or as little as you like.

Omikuji are fortunes that are written on narrow strips of paper at shrines and temples across Japan. Visitors make a small offering and select one fortune from a box, hoping for a good one.

After selecting the fortune, the visitor opens it, discovering the general blessing which can be good or bad. The general blessing ranges from a great blessing, which is the best, to a great curse, which is the worst. In between are additional blessings and curses of varying degrees including small, half, near, and near-small.

The fortunes are about the visitor’s life, including items such as wishes, travel, business, studies, and romance. Like all fortunes, the future is predicted. If the prediction is bad, the visitor folds up the strip of paper and ties it to something on the temple or shrine grounds, ridding themself of the bad fortune.

If the fortune received is good, the visitor should keep it. Receiving a fortune at a shrine or temple is very popular; the photo shows us how popular.

Now, we have our content. All we need to do is make the webpage. Between Wikipedia for the content and flickr for photos, we have created a page of beauty and content to our site at no cost and with limited time. We suggest you do the same.