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Creating an Album in PhotoDeluxe PhotoDeluxe also allows you to create digital albums.. My Photos dialog box Click here to access Create a New Album... At the top of your screen, choose

To create a new album in PhotoSuite:

1. Click the Organize button on the navigation bar The Organize panel and Last Viewed Album contents appear

2. Click the Albums button to open the Master Album dialog box, then click the New button

3. Enter a name for your new album in the New Album Activity panel, then click

OK to create the new empty album file

Creating an Album in PhotoDeluxe

PhotoDeluxe also allows you to create digital albums If you’re working in PhotoDeluxe, follow these steps:

1. Click Get & Fix Photo, then Get Photo, then My Photos The My Photos dialog box, shown in Figure 14-5, appears

Enter name for new album.

My Photos dialog box Click here to access

Create a New Album.

2. At the top of your screen, choose File, then My Photos, then New Album.

3 In the Create Album dialog box, type the album name in the text box, then click Create Album

4. You can access your album by clicking Get Photo, then My Photos to display

a list of albums across the top of the My Photos dialog box See Figure 14-5

What Can You Do with Your Digital Albums?

Digital albums are a great way to store and share scanned photos Unfortunately, the technology is still not sufficiently advanced to allow you to email albums quickly using a standard dial-up connection Uploading entire albums to send to a friend is time consuming and perhaps even impractical unless you and your friend have high-capacity, high-speed service such as cable or DSL lines If you both have access to such service, you can email an entire photo album much as you would email any other text or graphics file, by attaching it to your email

You can also copy your file onto a CD or high-capacity disk for sharing Unfortu-nately, standard floppy disks just aren’t up to the task of transferring entire albums;

however, Zip drives, Jaz drives, and CD burners all allow you to conveniently store the large amounts of image data contained in an album The U.S postal service is more than happy to deliver albums stored on this type of media for the cost of a few stamps

You can find more information about Zip drives and Jaz drives in Chapter 4.

Creating a Slide Show from Scanned Photos

Despite their bad rap, slide shows need not be boring In fact, they’re a great way to display your photos to an admiring (or at least polite) audience Of course, you’re not really displaying slides, but creating the digital equivalent of a slide show Most image-editing programs allow you to create a digital show from an existing album, or import photos from different locations on your computer You might even be able to add sound effects

If you have existing slides you want to display using your computer, consider scanning them as discussed in Chapter 12, which explains how

to scan transparencies.

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To find out how to create a slide show using your image-editing program, search the Help index using the keyword “slide.” This is a standard term, although not all programs refer to a finished project as a slide show For example, when you search for the word “slide” in PhotoDeluxe, the Help menu displays “slide show (see Photo Parade).” While both PhotoShop and PhotoDeluxe have features that allow you to create slide shows with ease, PhotoSuite has a more sophisticated range of capabilities

Creating a Slide Show Using PhotoSuite

You can create a slide show with PhotoSuite by following these steps:

1. Click the Share button on the Navigation bar, then the Slide Show button that appears on the left of the screen

2. If you want to create a slide show from an album, click the Create from Album button on the left of the screen to display the screen shown in Figure 14-6 Alternatively, if you want to create a show using photos from different locations

on your computer, click the Create from Scratch button, enter a name for the new slide show, set the Show Presentation options, and click OK Click the Add Photos button to proceed to the next screen, and click the Computer button to browse and select the photos you want

Select the album containing the photos you want

to use.

3. If you’re creating a show from an album, select the album name from the drop-down menu in the Create Slide Show panel to display the album’s current contents, and indicate whether you want to use some or all the photos

in the album

4. The photos you select for your show are displayed on the PhotoSuite desktop

5. Choose a transitional screen to appear between displayed photos during the show using the drop-down menu in the transition screen

6. Click the Create button, and in the dialog box that appears, indicate a name for your slide show, the duration you want each slide to appear on your screen, and the background color you want to appear

Using PhotoDeluxe to Create a Slide Show

Although PhotoSuite allows you to create a professional-caliber slide show, PhotoDeluxe has a few features worth mentioning in this area PhotoDeluxe allows you to select a theme, which provides graphics that surround and set off your photos

To use PhotoDeluxe to do this, follow these steps:

1. Click the Cards and More button, and click the PhotoParade button to access the PhotoParade menu commands Choose Create a PhotoParade from the menu to display the PhotoParade menus Follow the numbered steps by clicking the 1 Album tab, and then click Open Album This opens the Photo Parade album within the My Photos Organizer window

2. At the top of your screen, click the 2 Photos tab Click Add Photo, browse to select a photo, and click Open Repeat this for each photo you want to add to the album

3. Click the Theme tab, and choose a theme from the Choose Theme menu

PhotoDeluxe allows you to add captions to photos in your slide show.

While you are creating a slide show, click the Captions tab, select the first thumbnail in an album, and click Add Caption Type a title and caption for the photo, and click OK Repeat this for each thumbnail in the album.

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Adding Props, Shadows, and Faux Backgrounds to Your Photos

Some image-editing programs, such as PhotoSuite, come with a database of backgrounds and props that you can use to enhance your photos, like the ones shown in Figures 14-7 and 14-8 Other programs, such as PhotoDeluxe, don’t come with these fun additions, but you can use the tips offered in this section to create your own database of backgrounds and props

If you’re in the market for an image-editing program, it’s a good idea to compare the different software products on the basis of what backgrounds and props they provide PhotoSuite comes with a separate content CD that is filled with props, backgrounds, and templates Templates for frames and greeting cards are discussed in Chapters 15 and 16.

FIGURE 14-7 Thumbnails of some faux backgrounds you can use for your subjects