Join the Discussion "While I have managed to get most of my photos into archival storage boxes, I still have piles of photos waiting to be scanned, more waiting to be put into albums, still more waiting to be organized, and even more sitting in folders all over my computer with no semblance of organization." How do you organize your photos?

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By Kimberly Powell

Dateline: January 6, 2003

If you're like me and weighed down under the burden of trying to catalogue and organize your digital photos, then there is help on the way. Today, Adobe announces a new generation of Windows-based photo software, specifically intended to help the average digital camera owner organize, find, fix, share, and preserve the lifetime of photos accumulating on their computers. No more stacks of photos molding away in shoeboxes, or albums full of pictures with no names and dates. Adobe Photoshop Album, due to be released in February 2003, makes it easy to scan, save, and truly organize your photo collection.

Highlights of Adobe Photoshop Album

• Get photos with a single click
  Easily grab photos from a digital camera, CD, or scanner with just one click.
   
• Easily organize photos with customized keyword tags
  Create customized keyword tags that represent families, surnames, places, or events, and drag them onto your photos so you can find pictures by subject later. This is a great system for genealogists because you can organize one photo under multiple surnames or families without making copies.
   
• Find photos fast - by date or subject
  Quickly locate any photo by the date it was taken using the sliding timeline which displays photos taken over a period of time, or the onscreen calendar view which shows the exact day and month when each moment was captured. The customized keyword tags also allow for easily bring up pictures from multiple folders with one just one search.
   
• Safeguard your memories
  Protect your photos from computer crashes by easily burning your collection on CD or DVD—no other CD burning software necessary.
   
• Create cards, calendars, slide shows, albums, and books
  An easy-to-follow wizard helps users create cards, calendars, albums, Web photo pages, and even 3D Web galleries with just a few clicks of the mouse. Put your own pictures and words into cards, calendars, and books for relatives and special friends.
   
• Fix photo flaws with just one click
  Photoshop Album provides one-click editing tools to fix common problems, such as red-eye, color, contrast and brightness. For more advanced editing, Photoshop Album provides single-click integration to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and other graphic-editing programs.