I need to come up with a solution for printing digital photos in a situation where a Polaroid camera would have been useful. Specifically a photo with Santa type situation where I need to print pictures pretty much on demand. Ideally the solution would be able to automatically send images from my digital camera to either a laptop or photo printer and then automatically output a 3×5 or 4×6 photo.

For what it’s worth, I have a Sony A200 DSLR.

I’m looking for a site that offers as many of the following as possible, in order of their importance:

1. Excellent photo printing.
2. Unlimited Storage Space
3. Easy editing of photos
4. Easy to upload photos
5. Easy to share, perhaps with it’s own web address I can send to people.
6. Fast access to thumbnails of my photos.

What do you recommend and why?

When I open a photo in Photoshop Elements or Photoshop and zoom in on it so much that some or all of the image goes off the screen, I can’t crop the image anywhere near the corners without the image rapidly moving once I drag the crop mark. How do I “freeze” the image so it doesn’t start scrolling around, so I can then start my crop from any of the corners of image?

I really have two questions. One is about how digital cameras actually capture images and create image files. The other is about how cameras end up taking rectangular pictures. I mean, if you look at cameras. the lenses are circular, so how do they end up taking rectangular pictures, and why? Why are movies and photos always square, rather than circular?

I now have a Canon, but it’s all beat up and is getting a bit slow. What are the good brands for digital cameras?