Don’t risk losing your digital holiday memories

Published August 20th, 2008 - 11:17 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

Don’t risk losing your digital holiday memories

Kodak offers variety of options to protect, cherish and share your candid moments

Digital pictures are great, but with hundreds of images saved on the PC, USB and memory cards, consumers are risking losing their precious memories forever. Imagine a PC crash or a virus wiping out all those irreplaceable moments captured with your loved ones, the emotional trauma and loss would be just too much.

Sometimes there's nothing like a printed photograph you can put in an album or a frame and hang on your living room wall. Kodak, the world's foremost imaging innovator helps you do just that. From family reunions, prehistoric and beautiful architecture to magnificent landscapes, indigenous animals or the tribal gangs at your holiday destination – everything that you have captured in its total originality and brought back from your holidays – its time to print your cherished ‘Kodak moments’!

“Kodak encourages consumers not only to take pictures but also to protect and share them. Printing your cherished memories is just one more way to ensure your memories are safeguarded and enjoyed forever. The risk of losing our digital memories is very high and we need to ensure that our memories are protected for generations to come”, said Arif Khan, Area Manager Kodak (Near East) Inc.

What can be done with your images?
- Print your digital memories at a photo lab
- Frame your best photos, enlarge and display at home or office
- Make photo gifts, greeting cards, photo calendars
- Print your photos at home on a photo printer
- Upload the images onto a reputed on-line photo gallery
- Print your digital memories at a photo lab
Perhaps the easiest and most economical way to print is by simply taking your memory card/USB/camera to the Kodak Express photo lab nearest to you. With over 230 Kodak Express labs in the UAE, you will find one round the corner.
The Kodak Express stores are equipped to improve the images using imaging software and will even offer you a free album or enlargement if you print in high volume.
Photo books are the hottest option to freeze your special moments.  You can caption the images; put your thoughts and stories behind the image like where and when you captured them and how they happened. Kodak allows you to go beyond 4x6 - into an array of options, so you can enjoy the creative process of telling your story - your way, for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations etc. In just seconds, you’ll be able to create thoughtful greeting cards and party invitations that say you care.

- Frame your best photos, enlarge and display at home or office
The joy of seeing your prized photo on the wall or a frame is second to none. A Kodak Express studio can enlarge and frame your images in no time.

- Make photo gifts, greeting cards, photo calendars
The latest Kodak picture Kiosk available in many Kodak Express photo labs and Carrefour locations allows you to have fun with your images and produce customized gifts, greeting cards, calendars. You can add text, colorful borders, captions and even produce a photo-book by yourself. You can even print your phone-cam images via Bluetooth. All it needs is some time and your creative juices to bring your images to life.

- Print your photos at home on a photo printer
 For those too lazy to step out or for whom privacy is very important, printing images on a Kodak home photo printer is a great option. Kodak has perfected the imaging science of home photo printers and has some great models to help you print real Kodak lab quality photographs that are water proof and guaranteed to last a lifetime.

- Upload the images onto a reputed on-line photo gallery
Ride on the latest fad of uploading your images on a on-line photo storage site and allow your friends to access your images from anywhere in the world. Kodak has its popular Kodak-online gallery www.kodakgallery.com offering free unlimited uploads and runs great offers to print, enlarge, gifting ideas etc. to members.

So get started on your latest summer project and give that dusty family photo album a new lease on life!
“Kodak has always kept its promise of introducing innovative yet simple technology to consumers at the best available prices. Kodak is proud to be a complete solution provider for today’s changing imaging needs. We have a complete portfolio of products from digital cameras, picture frames, memory cards, digital accessories, home photo printers, on-line photo gallery, Kodak Express photo labs and so much more. An example of Kodak’s latest innovative approach for retail printing is the recent announcement of the all new dry lab system, the KODAK Adaptive Picture Exchange (APEX)”, added Khan.