The new operating system from Microsoft, Windows Vista®, has built in some nifty, easy ways to enjoy
your digital photos.
Windows Vista® offers all the basic photography features you need, including enhancements like these:
Photo organization made simple and searchable-so they're easy to find
Easy photo editing tools, perfect for beginners
Wizards for e-mailing and photo sharing without all the fuss
Back-up protection for your photos that's easy enough to do regularly
The Windows Vista® Photo Gallery gives you a clear snapshot of your photo collection.
When you upload pictures from your camera, they arrive with strange names—usually numbers in a sequence.
This makes them hard to find later on.
Windows Vista® lets you tag pictures with important keywords—"birthday party," for instance. Then,
rather than looking through each picture, you simply search "birthday party," and all the photos with that
tag come up.
Perform simple edits like removing red-eye, cropping, and adjusting color and exposure.
Windows Vista® offers all the tools you need for basic photo editing. Clear up those red eyes, crop
an image to the size you want, cut out distracting details, or adjust color, exposure or saturation.
Windows Vista® Photo Gallery preserves the original as a "digital negative," so you can always return to the
initial photo.
When you want to do more with your photos,
HP Photosmart Essential software
offers more advanced editing and photo project features that will enhance your Windows Vista® experience. It offers a
suite of tools for editing, restoring damaged photos, printing and much more.
Send photos in e-mail that are always the right size
Windows Vista® takes the guesswork out of sizing pictures for e-mail.
You've buffed up pictures from the birthday party, and now you want to send them to friends and family
to enjoy. But the last time you did it, the photo was way too big. With Windows Vista®, a photo e-mail wizard
walks you through the process, making it easy to send the right size pictures every time.
The Windows Vista® online print wizard offers a link to
Snapfish,
HP's on-line photo service. With Snapfish, you can store, edit, organize, and share your pictures—and
even create photo gifts like mugs and calendars.
Windows Vista® simplifies the photo backup process with built-in tools and reminders. Anytime you
insert a blank CD, you'll be given options for how you want to use it. Select "Burn files to disc",
and choose the digital photos you want to save, and you're done. You can also schedule automatic
back-ups to make it a total no-brainer.
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