What good is a photo if you can’t find it when you want it? Digital imaging programs not only allow you to edit photographs, they allow you to organize and display them conveniently and at will. Even better, digital albums never yellow, tear, or mildew.

What Is a Digital Album?
Just as paper albums allow you to store all your prized photos in a single location, digital albums allow you to store image files in a central location on your computer. Once you’ve done this, it’s easy to display your photos, make slide shows, and copythem to CDs and disks.

You’re probably familiar with one kind of database: the folders you use to organize documents and other files in Windows Explorer. A digital album is another kind of database. A database allows you to organize image files so you can access and retrieve them later. To retrieve a file from an album, you use a file name or path much as you would to access any other type of file on your computer.