Review: Send Photos
Fun and Easy Photo Sharing, Emailing

For a lot of people, the ability to share their photos with others is the main reason they bought a digital camera in the first place. But the problem for some is exactly HOW do they share their pictures? Depending on your e-mail program, sharing photos may be easy or a little tricky, especially since you need to reduce the size of your images so they don't bog down your e-mail, or your recipients. This is a particular issue for dial-up internet users.

One of the simplest solutions I've found is a neat little program called Send Photos . And it does exactly that. Quickly, easily, intuitively and with a variety of fun borders, backgrounds, stationery and layouts.

SendPhotos 5 is great for people who want an easy-to-use photo sharing program without having to learn a lot of complicated features. While it comes with an extensive Users Guide, the software is so straightforward you probably won't need it.

When you open the program, SendPhotos automatically finds your My Pictures file and you simply select the images you want to send, type in your e-mail message, add captions to the photos if desired, and choose a layout, border, stationery and background.

The beauty of the program is that your photos and captions are embedded within the body of the e-mail, not in separate attachments your recipients have to click one at a time.

There is also a built-in editing program to adjust exposure, remove red eye and crop images. The editor uses a copy of your image and your original is left intact.

SendPhotos gives you the option of sending your message and photos from Outlook or Outlook Express or with its own e-mail program. It works with most e-mail programs including AOL (Version 8.0 or higher), Yahoo, Hotmail, Eudora and Netscape.

You can control the file size of the images that are sent by adjusting the compression (keeping in mind that the larger the file the better the quality, but the slower to upload/download). The software is especially handy for dial-up internet users. Photos upload/download up to 25 times faster than on traditional dial-up.

You can also upload your photos as a web page to your own (free) photo album blog, print your photos on your home printer, or upload them to a local online photo finisher (via SendPhoto's network of affiliated printers) and your photos will either be delivered or available for instore pickup, depending on the retailer.

A new feature of version 5 is the ability to schedule automatic uploads so your photos are always backed-up online and on your PC -- you get 2 GB of free storage.

If you like to e-mail photos to share them with friends and family, and need an easy-to-use, fun program, SendPhotos is a great choice.

To purchase SendPhotos, click here