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Digital PicShare - Share the Joy!


Digital PicShare is a FREE, easy to use Windows® program for making slide shows you can share. The joy of pictures is in sharing them. In the digital age it has become easier to share pictures by email, or to put them up on a web site if you are wise in the ways of the Internet. Still, sharing isn’t as easy as it could be, and that’s what prompted me to write Digital PicShare. There are many slide show programs out there, most of them free, but I wanted to make one that made it easy to create entire digital photo albums that could be shared with friends and loved ones. By contrast, most slide show programs are geared to helping you view your own pictures on your own computer.	Fig. 1. Opening screen. Download Now!

Create slide shows on CDs and send them to family and friends. You can use Digital PicShare to create photo albums for your sole use on your own computer, but in truth, the program is geared to putting slide shows onto CDs that can hold up to hundreds of pictures, and giving those CDs to family and friends. Most computers these days have CD drives that can "burn" (record) data onto blank CDs. If you watch for sales and buy in quantities of 25 or more, you can often buy blank CDs for less than a dollar each. Think of what this means! You can easily share 100’s of pictures for less than a dollar! Compare this to the cost of twin prints or extra prints, and you begin to realize it’s become much, much more economically feasible to share many more moments of your life, and feel closer to distant (or even near) friends and relatives. This is what I mean in saying the joy of pictures is in sharing them, and this is what Digital PicShare can do for you.	Fig. 2. Adding pictures. Download Now!

NOTHING TO BUY! NOTHING TO LEARN! NOTHING TO LOSE! You already know Digital PicShare is free for you, but when you send a Digital PicShare CD to friends and family, it's also free for them. Digital PicShare slide shows are displayed using a web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. Since almost every computer in the world these days already has one or both of these browsers, your friends and family have NOTHING TO BUY in order to watch the slide shows you send them. Even if they don't already have a browser, they can get one for free. When you put a Digital PicShare CD into the CD drive, the slide show starts automatically, so your friends and family have NOTHING TO LEARN! This feature works on most Windows computers. It does not work on some very old versions of Windows. For these computers, your friend or family member will have to start their browser manually, and type d:\DigitalPicShare.htm in the address bar. (If their CD drive is not drive d:, they will need to replace the d: with the correct letter for the CD on their computer.) Digital PicShare is easy for you to use, and the slide show CDs you create are even easier for your friends and family to watch. So give Digital PicShare a try. You have NOTHING TO LOSE! You also don't lose any personal information. When you download Digital PicShare, you are not asked for personal information of any kind - not even an email address. No ads, no banners, no time limits, no spam, and no money EVER. No strings attached - just enjoy it!	Fig. 3. That's it! You have a short slide show that's ready to save. Download Now!

Put multiple slide shows on one CD - CDs hold 100's of pictures! A CD holds about 700Mb (700 million characters) of data. The best digital cameras available today (that are still affordable) are the 5 MegaPixel cameras. Pictures from these cameras are about .8 - 1Mb (800,000 - 1,000,000 characters). These are REALLY big files and are great for printing your pictures. But they are so big that some email carriers won't even let you attach them to emails. Even if you can, if your friend or relative gets their email using a dial-up modem, it will take a LONG time to receive your picture. But you can send 100's of these very large picture files on a single CD through the postal mail, without frustrating your friends. Plus, your pictures don't take up any space on their computer. With potentially 100's of pictures on one CD, it makes sense to break them up into multiple slide shows. If you put multiple slide shows on one CD, Digital PicShare will automatically create a menu so that when the CD is inserted into the CD player, the menu comes right up, and your friend or relative just clicks on the slide show they want to watch. Be sure to save your slide shows to the root of the CD drive. For example, if your CD is drive d:, and you want to call your first slide show "MySummer" and your second slide show "MyBirthday", then save your first slide show to d:\MySummer.sho, and your second slide show to d:\MyBirthday.sho.	Fig. 4. Digital PicShare displays a menu when there are multiple slide shows on the CD. Fig. 5. Watch the slide show! Download Now!