canuck Loc: Oakville, on

Are digital photo frames are still popular, wouldn't a table preform as well and least expensive?

Bill_de Loc: US

Not sure how you are comparing a digital photo frame with a table?

There are plenty of digital photo frames on the market, and they are a lot less expensive than they used to be.

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DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

There are also a lot of inexpensive computers on the market and they have larger monitors than most digital frames.

I got a tablet several years ago for a project and I now use it for a screensaver display. I consider it pretty small.

Sergey

Some photo frames (for example, Nixplay, but there are other brands as well) connect to WiFi and to a cloud account. I bought these frames for my Mom and my father in law and I am able to upload new pictures to their frames (really to the cloud) remotely, so they always have new pictures. I find it extremely convenient and they totally love it. The frames have a movement sensor and go sleep if no movement detected for some time and wake up and start slideshow when detect movement.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I have a frame on my kitchen counter that runs on a SD card, now with nearly 10k images. I just let it run 24x7. You never know what you'll see as you walk by and pause for a few frames. I have a collection in LR that I add new images into the collection as I finish editing. After maybe 100+ images have been added, I remember to re-run the Export of the entire collection and replace the contents onto the SD card in capture-date order. As I'm always editing / re-editing older work, the collection picks up any older changes as well as the new.

scubadoc Loc: Sarasota, FL

Do your mind sharing your workflow for what you are describing?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

In what sense? The critical tool is Lightroom. I've found the landscape format / aspect of the frame on the counter displays best for landscape-aspect images, so when I finish a new topic for editing, I use metadata filters and filter first to those images in the landscape aspect. Then, I go through and 'star code' the images while viewing the edits in full-screen mode. I don't add every image into the frame, just a small subset that is the essence of that group. I add an attribute filter for the star-code used, and select all of the results with the star-code and add to the collection that is the frame.

I have an LR Export Preset that are the pixel dimensions of the target frame size in pixels. As discussed in Recommended resizing parameters for digital images, you only need a 1:1 sized image to the pixel dimensions of the frame, 1024px on the long-side in the case of my frame. All the technical settings, including the file renaming, are all encoded into my LR export preset. So, the process is just to navigate to the collection, select all, and run the export. For this number of images, it's an hour+ to run in background. I install the SD card, delete all the contents, and copy the output folder from the Export onto the disk.

jblazar Loc: Sunnyvale, CA

I use an old plasma 45" tv. No wifi, but great images. Much larger than most frames. I have it on the side of my desk where I can see the images if I glance to the side. Images on USB flash drive. Even a new tv would be much cheaper than a similar sized digital frame.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I think a tablet would be better. Those digital frames are expensive for what you get. I had two, and they both stopped working.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

And you don't have trouble carrying that to friends' and relatives' houses?

dougbev3 Loc: Pueblo, Colorado

Most of the newer TV's have a slot for a "Flash Drive". You can put your pictures on the flash drive and watch them on your tv.

jblazar Loc: Sunnyvale, CA

Hey, if they want to see my fantastic pictures, they can carry the tv (:

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

I have 4 9" photo frames running all the time in the house. We don't always look at them but find it very nice if we catch a picture that pops up that we really like. Could be a recent photo or a pic of family from 60 years ago. Fun to just have there.......

repleo Loc: Boston

I have a digital picture frame running in the kitchen. I keep it loaded with my favorite pictures. They just give me a pleasant little lift when when I see at them as I pass by. I have a set running as a screen saver slide show on my computer also. What's the point in taking pictures if you can't enjoy them. You can only hang so many on the wall.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

"Have TV. Will Travel."