Whether electronic or printed, sharing photos has become the primary raison
d'etre for consumer image-editing apps. Every company these days has a partner
or home-grown site for displaying images and getting reprints and novelty gifts:
Adobe and ActiveShare, Microsoft and PictureIt! on MSN, JASC (Paint Shop Pro)
and a version of PhotoLoft called StudioAvenue.com, Corel and CorelCity.com, and
Ulead and iMira.com. Keep in mind that for programs such as Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe
Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Ulead PhotoImpact, you're pretty much on your own
when it comes to distributing pictures.
E-mail them
Unfortunately, there are as many ways to implement photo sharing as there are
products. Take, for instance, simply e-mailing an image to someone. Ulead Photo
Express simply launches your e-mail client and attaches the current image, while
Adobe PhotoDeluxe posts the image to ActiveShare and simply sends the recipient
a link to it. MGI PhotoSuite and PictureIt! Photo give you the most flexibility
by letting you determine the size you want the attached file to be, and
PhotoSuite will let you send it with a viewer as well. Photo Express also offers
the unique capability of faxing an image via your PC fax client software.
You can get a bit fancier, if you'd like, and send an e-card -- a picture with some text and graphics surrounding it, and maybe a sound file -- instead. Generally, the programs treat these like projects, where you can either choose a pre-fab template, stick your photo in, and edit the text and graphics or create your own from scratch.
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