By David D. Deprice
Back then it was simple - you take the picture, you print it andput it in your family album. But now you have a digital camera.So do your cousins, uncles, aunts and granpa Joe. What are yougoing to do with thousands of digital photos to pass them ontothe future generations? Read our advice.
What you need is a digital photo album. Here are some good onesso you know what to start with.
InAlbum
InAlbum is a fun and easy to use software to turn your digitalphotos into a stunning photo slideshow. Start with ready to usetemplates or custom templates which let you mix & matchbackground animations, buttons, photo frames and transitioneffects. Decorate with animated clipart, speech bubbles, sounds,MP3 music and your own voices. InAlbum gives you more outputoptions than any other slideshow softwares. Create video CDsthat are playable on TVs using standard VCD / DVD player. Buildscreensavers for yourself or others. Make self-containedexecutable slideshows. Write autorun CDs that automatically playwhen inserted into a PC. Print photos and make wallpaper. Sharevia email and host your shows online for free.
Trial Version: http://www.deprice.com/inalbum.htm
PicaJet FX
PicaJet FX is a photo organizer that offers direct import fromyour camera, image sharing via email or web gallery, automaticphoto enhancement, personal ratings and categories, as well asprinting features and more. The photo organizer allows you toview your images by rating, keyword or date/timeline and you caneasily categorize your images by simple drag and drop. Inaddition, it offers convenient editing features to correctred-eye, cropping, image sharpening, level adjustment and more.Additional features include direct CD/DVD burning, an imagesearch engine with support for EXIF data, slideshow maker and aneasy to use tool to generate a web gallery from perfecttemplates.
Trial Version: http://www.deprice.com/picajetfx.htm
Pics Print
Pics Print is a Windows application that makes it simple toformat and print high-quality photos, greeting cards, contactsheets, and family albums. Using wizards and templates, you canquickly grab images from digital cameras, scanners or disk, makecolor corrections and add style to them, resize and annotatethem, and print them using your printer's highest qualitysettings. Pics Print's folder browser lets you find images fast.With an intuitive Explorer-like folder tree and high-qualitythumbnails of all of the images in that folder, identifying theright picture is quick and easy. You can retrieve photosdirectly from any digital camera, and create a contact sheetwith a single click. Using standard drag-and-drop techniques,you can move the thumbnail images to the final document, resizethem, add text, and print them for friends and family. Theprogram includes WYSIWYG printing. The print preview screen letsyou move, resize, and rotate images, so you'll never waste timeor ink on pages that aren't exactly what you expect. Pics Printhas a built-in photo editor that lets you crop, resize, rotate,and color-correct images. Users who enjoy adding artisticeffects to their photos can blur, emboss, and sharpen theimages, add borders, and produce an unlimited variety ofcreative touches. There is even a red-eye remover that takes outthe red circles that the camera's flash often adds to portraits.
Trial Version: http://www.deprice.com/picsprint.ht
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