March 30, 2005 The Best Photo Organizers By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
If you got a new digital camera for Christmas or Hanukkah, by now you probably have enough digital pictures loaded onto your computer to feel totally confused. The pictures are likely to be stored in files and folders with techie-sounding names, and there are so many by now that it's hard to find just the ones you're looking for. The software that comes with digital cameras typically isn't very good, so it probably isn't much help. And any photo program that came bundled with your PC, if you can find it, is also very likely of inferior quality. Luckily, there are some good photo-organizing programs on the market, which cost little or are even free. These programs differ from traditional photo-editing software like Adobe's Photoshop. They place less emphasis on tweaking and perfecting each picture, focusing instead on organizing your hundreds or thousands of photos and helping you share them with others. They do have basic editing tools, but they are mainly designed to help you manage your digital-photo collection. Two of the best photo organizers have just been updated, and I have been testing them on my collection of more than 10,000 digital photos. One is Picasa 2, which runs only on Windows and is now a free offering from Google, which purchased Picasa last year. The other is Apple Computer's iPhoto 5, which runs only on the Macintosh. It comes free on every new Mac. Existing Mac owners can buy it as part of the excellent $79 iLife suite, which also includes programs for organizing and editing music and videos, and for authoring DVDs. ... http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20050330.html Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _______________________________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
