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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 3084546, member: 4373"]I have been hiding away in a corner as life has been quite busy for me. Thankfully I recently have a bit more time to dig out what I have stashed away. A good past time while I don't feel too well... I have been finding some interesting coins in the hoard. Will leave that to another discussion. My digital camera that I have taken more than 20k+ photos (mostly coins) and the faithful SD card that came with it finally decided to come to an end - sadly with quite a fair bit of photos that I failed to backup... </p><p><br /></p><p>That is a bit of a side track. I'm still struggling to come up with better ideas of how to display coin photos as well as cataloging what I have. I'll be honest - my script writing skill is absolutely hopeless despite how I pride myself on working on digital coin albums. I think the biggest problem that I have is that because it's too diversified, I cannot quite see a straight forward way of cataloging them and presenting them in a more aesthetically pleasant way online. Photoshopping is an option but it does add a lot more time. </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance if you collect both cents and nickels, it might be easy to put them in a Dansco album. One hundred coins may be doable but when it comes to more than a couple of hundred or more - this can be a genuine challenge. I had a look at what I uploaded at omnicoin and was taken back that I managed to take more than 5000+ over the years. Yet I reckon I got a fair a bit more that I have not got around to... </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking for some inspirations here - how would you catalog your coins and display them online? Blog? My style of putting coin photos in rows and columns / tables just look too outdated in today's design by at least two decades...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 3084546, member: 4373"]I have been hiding away in a corner as life has been quite busy for me. Thankfully I recently have a bit more time to dig out what I have stashed away. A good past time while I don't feel too well... I have been finding some interesting coins in the hoard. Will leave that to another discussion. My digital camera that I have taken more than 20k+ photos (mostly coins) and the faithful SD card that came with it finally decided to come to an end - sadly with quite a fair bit of photos that I failed to backup... That is a bit of a side track. I'm still struggling to come up with better ideas of how to display coin photos as well as cataloging what I have. I'll be honest - my script writing skill is absolutely hopeless despite how I pride myself on working on digital coin albums. I think the biggest problem that I have is that because it's too diversified, I cannot quite see a straight forward way of cataloging them and presenting them in a more aesthetically pleasant way online. Photoshopping is an option but it does add a lot more time. For instance if you collect both cents and nickels, it might be easy to put them in a Dansco album. One hundred coins may be doable but when it comes to more than a couple of hundred or more - this can be a genuine challenge. I had a look at what I uploaded at omnicoin and was taken back that I managed to take more than 5000+ over the years. Yet I reckon I got a fair a bit more that I have not got around to... Looking for some inspirations here - how would you catalog your coins and display them online? Blog? My style of putting coin photos in rows and columns / tables just look too outdated in today's design by at least two decades...[/QUOTE]
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