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The new version of Adobe's Photoshop Album introduces extra tools to simplify the organisation of your digital photo collection still further. The introduction of indexing "tags" and improvements in the ways you view your images are matched by support for Palm-OS-based PDAs and mobile phones.

Once set up, the first task for Photoshop Album is to find all the photos on your PC. It performs a comprehensive search of all drives, finding images in all the common file formats. These are automatically arranged in date order, in what Adobe calls the Photo Well. This is basically a thumbnail viewer of all or selected images, with a timeline at the top indicating when the photographs were taken.

Details of the photos, such as EXIF information, are preserved and can be viewed by clicking on individual shots. A more detailed picture of your collection is available in calendar view. This looks like a desktop calendar, but the date squares contain pictures organised by date.

Adobe's new system of tags enables you to quickly create index keywords, such as the name of a relation or a place you visited on holiday, and to add these tags to your images. You can add them to several pictures at once and add as many tags as you need to individual shots. Once you've done this, with a couple of mouse clicks you can call up all images containing the tags you're interested in.

A final way of selecting images to view is using the Intelligent Photo Assistant. This searches through your images and compares them with a target image you've picked, looking for similar content. The technique works best with landscape shots, but it's still a useful way of hunting down elusive images.

Photo retouching is simple and automatic, with fixes available for lighting, colour and sharpness and "pick and click" red-eye removal.

Finally, you can burn CDs and DVDs directly from Photoshop Album 2 and send images to e-mail contacts, phones, PDAs and TiVo Series 2 digital video recorders. --Simon Williams

Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 is the fast simple way to find, fix, share and preserve your photos. Instead of searching through endless folders, you can use a convenient calendar to find photos by date or revolutionary keyword tags to pinpoint the exact group of photos you want. Quickly fix red eye, lighting, and other basic flaws. Create custom slide shows, cards, hard-bound photo books and more. New Features: Sync your Palm OS handheld with your computer, then let Photoshop Album 2.0 grab images from your hard drive Send pictures directly to your handheld, mobile phone, or TiVo Series 2 DVR Organize your photos by date with Calendar View. Allows you to view pictures in a familiar desk calendar style Find photos by subject- Create an unlimited number of visual keyword tags to organize and search your collection Quickly make corrections- Instantly improve your photos with easy-to-use tools for removing red eye, rotating, cropping and more

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