I’ve recently renewed my interest in photography and have gotten a digital slr. I know my old computer is not sufficient to continuously support the downloads of pictures and the programs for editing. Any help on what I need to look for would be appreciated
You don’t need anything special regarding hardware. Any modern Mac or PC has plenty of horsepower for working digital images. I’d be thinking about storage space and a backup solution. Your large DSLR images will eat up drive space fast and you don’t want to lose them all when your drive fails, as all hard drives eventually do.

Get a good machine with a 160 gb or better drive, then add another drive at least as large and a good backup package such as Dantz Retrospect. You want software that will handle the backups automatically. We fallible humans forget all too easily! Get lots of RAM, too, probably 2 gb or so. You’ll appreciate the speed boost it will provide when you are working with big digital images.

That should give you a starting point. You didn’t ask, but give Photoshop Elements 5 a look while you are looking at computers. I just bought it for my daughter and am very impressed with its power and ease of use.

How to Use Your Digital Camera\’s Settings

How can i customize my pics for myspace…I been seeing some designs on myspace that are really cool and i wanted to know what software was it or website or if it cost or not but here is a preview of what it looks like its not much in this pic but i seen some people hook their pic up

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm68/twain_photos/CUSTOM%20PICS/l_4d55a460b18d43adad7c631473aed5f3.jpg

FREE software:

http://www.getpaint.net/ (Very user friendly)

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

http://www.inkscape.org/download/ (Very good for vectored graphics)

FREE online photo editors:

http://www.splashup.com/

http://www.blibs.com/editor/ (I like this one best)

http://www.onlineimageeditor.info/

That should help ya!

Ron

Any suggestions on cost efficient but good quality digital camera’s out there that I can buy for my digital photography college class?
So many variables. A good start is a pont and shoot Panasonic Lumix with image stabilization and a good lens, for around a couple hundred $. After that the sky’s the limit according to your budget and desire to take better photographs with more control over the process.

I’ve created a beautiful album with Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus software, but I find myself wondering if Creative Memories is the only company that can print it. It’s a fabulous program, but the albums are a bit expensive. Any help would be appreciated.
With Creative Memories, you’re required to use their printing service.

Instead, you can create beautiful scrapbook pages at CropMom (http://www.cropmom.com), then you can have your layouts printed anywhere you’d like. It’s less expensive, and the graphics at CropMom are the same designer digital scrapbook graphics that professional digital scrapbookers use.

CropMom is free to use. Just register and upload your photos to the site. Click "get started" to begin making your layout.

Drag and drop your photo or photos onto the canvas. You have your choice of beautiful scrapbook graphics to drag and drop onto the canvas. You can rotate and resize photos and graphics, and you can even add your own text.

You can download the low resolution JPEG file of your layout for free, and then insert it into your e-mail. Or, also free, you can click SHARE to send your layout to a friend’s e-mail address.

For a small fee, you can purchase the high-resolution JPEG file, which allows for high-quality prints, then have your layouts printed by a photofinisher, such as Snapfish or Shutterfly. You can have the layouts printed individually, and then insert them into an album. Or you can have them printed as a photo book.