Joseph, For what it is worth, here are a few comments. There are a couple of questions you need ask yourself. 1) Do you want to print an album? 2) Do you want to run a screen slide show? If you want to print a traditional photo album, then Family Photo Album (FPA) does a great job. It allows you to organise your data into albums (represented as directories on disk) and within then grouped into chapters (like CFTW). A choice of two image sizes is available. A story may be written to accompany each chapter, and each photo has a printable description. I use FPA to store my non genealogical images that I want to distribute in printed form to family and friends. CD storage would probably work OK when the album is complete only. The structure of the chapters and albums is eminently flexible. When a display type of presentation is required, I believe a non-CFT product like Graphics Workshop for WIndows may be more appropriate. This type of package allows both a thumbnail type printable album as well as screen slide show facilities. Scanning for screen display requires a resolution to suit not just your present maximum screen size, but also the one you may have in 10 years time. You don't want to keep scanning the old images each time. This may require a scan width of perhaps 2000 pixels, resulting in a large image. The CD storage is useful here. With printed output you can sometimes get away with a lower resolution scan on small images. However, for large size output, which in FPA is about 5 inches wide, you need to scan at say 3/4 of the printer output rate by the width of the output. For a 600 dpi printer, you need about 2250 pixels wide to give good results. The actual scan rate at the scanner is then dependant on the width of the original image. If the original is 3 inches wide, then scan it at 2250/3 or 750 dpi. If 6 inches wide, scan at 2250/6 or 375 dpi. The standard FPA small size print requires about half these resolutions. I think you will find that every user on this list will be doing something different. As scan rates increase, and storage becomes less expensive, our concepts of quality and acceptable output change. Therefore there is no single, simple answer. Cheers, Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Cain <cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu> To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com <CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, 14 April 1998 11:04 Subject: Organizing photos > >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? >