Chapter 1. Liberating Your Pictures

  • Connect Your Digital Camera to a Computer

  • Import Pictures from Your Camera

  • Preserve Your Memories

  • Create a CD Slide Show

  • Scan Printed Photos, Slides, and Negatives

  • Create Your Own Virtual Art Gallery

  • Rescue Memories from Oblivion

Most people take photographs to chronicle their lives and preserve memories of family, friends, and events. A lot of time and expense goes into taking these pictures, and over a lifetime hundreds (if not thousands) of pictures can be accumulated. Although many of us consider our photographs among our most precious items, most of the time we don’t take care of them like we should. In fact, I’d venture to guess that you probably have a bunch of photographs held captive in shoeboxes that you ...

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