Slide Shows? Easy With A Digital Camera (NAPS)—Wish you had an easier way to share your photos? Thanksto the increasing popularity of digital cameras and scanners, family photographers can not only easily make their own slide shows, they are able to share them with friends and family in new andcreative ways. Usersof a new tool, called Photo Parade, can take photos from their digital camera, a photo CD,or photos they’ve scanned with their home scanner, and quickly make beautiful slide shows. The product has a step-by-step interface that lets even the most inexperienced computer user create a dazzling slide show in seconds. Here’s howit works: Users start by adding the photos they want to include in the slide show into a group, called a gallery. They then type titles and captions describing each photo, just like they would for a traditional photo album. Finally, they select one of a numberof professionally created themes to complementthe photos. PhotoParade does the rest. The slide shows are not only fun to watch, but are also easy to share, thanks to the software’s built-in send feature. jae a den Birthdays are happier and vacations more memorable when a digital photo slide showis cre- ated that you can share with friends and family. Examples of some of the slide shows created with PhotoParade include a graduation album for a daughter graduating from high school and a family scrapbook using 70 years of photosto tell the story of how a couple met, married andraised their family. Whether you want to share pictures of your vacation, the new baby or a family reunion, a slide show you create on your own is a great way to keep in touch, even when you can’t get together. More information about ways to create a slide show is available by visiting www.photoparade.net.
