GUIDE TO EDITING, PRINTING & SHARING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS

Welcome! Is your photo album still empty because you haven't figured out how to edit and print all those digital photos you took with your new mega-pixel camera? Well fret no more. This site will help you sort through all your options and guide you to getting great digital prints—and more—NOW!

We've done the work for you and sifted through dozens of photo editing, album and photo sharing software as well as digital printing services to help you find and make the best choices for printing, editing, organizing and sharing your photo memories with family, friends and co-workers.

If you are a camera novice like most of us, you want to know the basics: what resolution is best to produce high quality digital photos, which photo printing service to use, which software to use to manage all your photos, how to get the red-eye out of your pictures and the easiest ways to share your favorite shots with your family and friends.

Take heart! In the "dark ages" of digital photography—the late 1990's—getting prints from your digital camera was a major headache and many photos never saw the light of day. Today over 50 million people own digital cameras, and printing and sharing photos from your digital camera has never been easier. Now you can quickly and easily organize and archive your pictures into digital albums, edit and order prints and gifts, and begin sharing photos with your family, friends and co-workers.

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TOP RATED DIGITAL CAMERAS

There are so many digital cameras to choose from, it is hard to know which ones are the most user friendly and produce excellent digital photos. To help with your digital camera purchase, we have listed below some of the current top rated digital cameras (as of Nov 2006):

Canon Powershot A630 - 8MP

Compact camera, great variety of settings, lots of easy-to-use manual controls. 2.5-inch LCD, 4X optical zoom. Approx $265-$299

Canon Rebel XTi

Advanced 10MP D-SLR. Excellent image quality, lightweight. Inexpensive for an SLR of this caliber. Approx. $799

Nikon D80

Excellent camera 10.2MP with outstanding image quality. Includes a terrific 7.5X optical zoom lens kit. This is a great digital SLR. Approx. $949

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 - 6 MP superzoom

With 12X optical zoom and excellent image stabilization. Easy-to-use buttons and controls. Video lets you shoot 640-by-480 QuickTime Motion JPEGs. Great price for a superzoom at approx. $400.

Fuji Finepix E900 - 9MP compact digital camera

Creates big image files for large prints and uses AA batteries. Lets you save images as RAW files. Almost no shutter lag.

Canon Powershot S80 - 8MP

This popular camera is lightweight, has a 3.6x optical zoom lens and a 28mm (35mm equivalent) wide angle lens. 2.5-inch Wide viewing angle LCD screen. 1024 x 768 pixel XGA Movie Mode. Easy-to-use interface. Approx $400.

HP Photosmart R967 Digital Camera - 10MP ultra compact

High-resolution prints up to poster size. 30x total zoom (3x optical, 10x digital) 3" color image display (viewable outdoors). Anti-shake, in-camera red-eye removal, panorama preview, image enhancement, photo advice, bracketing, design gallery with slimming. Approx. $349.99

Kodak Easyshare-One Digital Camera - 6 MP

Get prints up to 20 × 30 in. 3.0 in. LCD high-resolution rotating display, store up to 1500 pictures with 256 MB of internal memory, Wi-Fi enabled