The downside of the CFT program for organizing is its limitation on the size of the graphics to 100K or less. I have several scans of over 1MB. A relatively good, and cheap, option is a program called Power Album from Softkey - nothing fancy but easy to use and inexpensive. Allows you to set up a book with chapters, and on the pages place objects - which may be any OLE compatible element such as JPG, GIF, BMP, DOC, TXT, etc as well as sound and video. It will also allow you to store the objects on any media, so in one book you can combine floppy, HDD, and CD. As I said, noting fancy. Really all it does is create a book of thumbnails to point to actual file locations on disk. I bought mine in the CD-ROM section of a local book store. ---------- > From: Joseph Cain <cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu> > To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Organizing photos > Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 9:04 PM > > Dear people, > > To date I have been skipping over the traffic that has to do with > images and photos since I have so few. Well, this will change > shortly since I bought an Astra 1200S scanner and also acquired > (mainly for office data storage) a cd rom writer (HP 7200e) > that writes both R and RW CDs. > > My question thus is to elicit your advice on how to start organizing > the photos we already have scanned (or obtained otherwise). Is it useful > for example to use the CFT photo album program? How best does one > organize photos? I am seeking advice from those with experience in > this area, especially since I plan to use the R cd's for storage because > they are so cheap. I have to start getting files off my hard drive since > I have now only a few hundred megs on each left and cannot put a > lot of scanned images on at once. (I have 1 and 1.6 GB drives). > > Of course some of the photos are for people not on the family tree, > but most are.