Photolightning 3.65

Photolightning 3.65

If you love taking digital photos, but have little time or desire to learn professional programs for making standard-size prints, sending photo e-mails, and performing minor photo enhancements, Photolightning is the solution for you. Following three easy steps, you can process a typical set of 24 photos in five minutes or less. Make photo e-mails small and easy to read by eliminating attachments. The program detects your camera and downloads your photos. It has a lightning-fast thumbnail browser; offers red-eye reduction, cropping, and autolevels; fixes backlighting; adds or reduces flash; fixes out-of-focus photos; crops, sharpens, and color boosts; adds brightness or contrast, hue, saturation, unsharp mark; and reduces noise. It has batch-processing functions, CD and DVD burning, print preview, album-page prints; creates HTML slide shows for e-mailing or posting to Web sites; and has complete album and organize features.

Version 3.65 adds a variable size of thumbnails to the thumbnail browser.

Ease of use is Photolightning's priority, and the program makes good on the promise. The interface guides you step-by-step through the most common photo-editing and organizing tasks. Start with minor modifications, such as rotation, red-eye removal, zooming, and cropping, then print the results or share them via e-mail. Photolightning can help you create photo albums, flip albums, and slide shows. The slide shows can be viewed without any special software in your Web browser. The program's somewhat-restrictive, wizard-style approach may not appeal to everyone, but its functionality makes it a worthwhile download for beginners.