Winter HolidaysTop 10 Digital Photo Christmas Gifts for Momsby Michael Carr What could be a better gift for mom than a chance to take, share or receive pictures of loved ones? Consult this list, which includes a starter camera, advanced camera, hot accessories and cool personalized presents. For more ideas, also be sure to see the Digital Camera Christmas Gift Guide. Give mom a gift she will cherish for Christmases to come with this unique quilt with a Christmas tree, and each ornament features a photo of a child or family member. You can customize the quilt with up to 12 pictures. Turn a simple photo of the family or the kids into a work of art with this photo canvas. Your digital image is e-mailed to the company, and they then transfer it onto actual art canvas and stretched onto wooden bars. You can hang it as is, or frame it. A great way to please mom is to create a picture CD greeting card. It makes a wonderful gift, it's easy and inexpensive to create if you have a CD burner, and it's simple to use (even the less-tech-savvy mothers). Find out how to please with a picture CD greeting card with this "how to" tutorial linked through this heading above. This is a great gift for the out-of-town mother/grandmother. She can get a view of your kids, possibly with new pictures every day (if you are loyal!). Digital picture frames come in different varieties. Some allow the user to download new pictures anytime through a phone line. Others accept various memory cards, and even play background music for slide shows.
For the digital-camera-nut of a mom, this is a great choice. It retails at $249, but will save her a bundle in photo processing. This tiny whopper of a printer produces photo-lab quality prints, it's very lightweight and travels well. Won't it be fun for mom to print 8x10s for grandma during her next visit? Is mom a total gadget freak? She'll love getting one of the popular new camera cellphone or PDA combos. It'll allow her to combine two popular gadgets into one, and easily shoot on the go. Just a word of warning. If you want to buy a camera cellphone, and she already has a cellphone, be SURE you buy one that is sold for use with her existing carrier. If mom is already a total photog, get her one of the hottest consumer-priced digital SLRs. The Canon Digital Rebel SLR, retailing at $999 with a lens, delivers 8 megapixel images and can be customized by the user. You will get plenty of happy mom points for this splurge! This is a cool gift sure to please mothers. It is a purse, which is always useful, and it features a black and white photo on the side. Is mom a tech junkie? Or just a digicam fanatic? Let the hip mom show her devotion to all things digital with this "Death to Film" tee-shirt. Or she can declare "Megapixels Rule" with this spaghetti tank. The photo prints, or even CDs and DVDs packed with picture backups, can quickly get unwieldy. Mom doesn't have to stop shooting, but do help her start getting organized. A good storage box or organizer will keep your photos and discs from getting damaged or deteriorating. It can also allow you to file your photos, so that you can quickly find pictures by date or subject. Here are the top photo storage boxes and organizers. | 
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