You've Taken All Those Digital Photos - Now What?
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Consider Using A Digital Photo Album
 

igital cameras give you the luxury of snapping what seems like a limitless amount of photos. You may be able to relate as you find yourself taking more snapshots than ever before.

According to InfoTrends Research, if people take an average of 47 photos per month and receive another 20 via the Internet and mobile camera phones, over the course of 50 years they would have more than 40,000 digital pictures!

While taking digital pictures is a cinch, many people are realizing that organizing and sharing those photos afterwards is harder than they thought.

It doesn’t take long for your digital photos to become as scattered and unruly as the ones you have stored in shoeboxes and drawers that you swear you’ll put into an album someday. And who has the time to rummage through a mass of folders and photos to find the ones you really need?

When buying a digital camera, people often forget about the extras that make the process simple and fun, such as companion software. Many people find the free software that comes with digital cameras to be difficult to use and limited in scope.

Fortunately, Adobe, the company responsible for the industry standard program Photoshop, came out with Photoshop Album software which is rapidly gaining ground as the digital camera companion of choice. With Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0, you can easily find, fix, share and preserve thousands of photos that all too often end up like a needle in an out-of-control haystack.

Those who aren’t computer-savvy can put any technical fears at ease. While Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 has many of the advantages of the professional Photoshop, it’s designed specifically with the average “active snapshooter” in mind. Within seconds, Photoshop Album gathers all of your computer’s photos for viewing in one convenient place, automatically organizing them by date.

Finding a particular photo is simple; a timeline view displays photos taken over a specific period of time, and a detailed calendar view shows the exact month and day each image was captured, along with a place for fun journal entries about that photographic moment. You also can tag and organize your photos by theme, person or any other subject matter.

Looking for fun and creative ways to share your photos? With Photoshop Album you can amaze your friends and family with photo albums, slide shows with music, greeting cards, calendars, Web pages and 3-D virtual galleries that you can e-mail, print or store on a CD or DVD.

In addition, your loved ones can receive images to their mobile phones, Palm OS handhelds and even TiVo Series2 digital video recorders.

Don’t let your digital photos overwhelm you. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

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