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The sights and sounds of Fall are definitely in the air! Halloween is coming up and if you have little ones, read my tips on taking better Halloween photos and dealing with tricky lighting.

Photo Books on Sale

As you begin to plan for the upcoming holiday season, now is a great time to get caught up on downloading and printing summer photos that are still sitting in your camera or on your computer or, my personal favorite, creating photo books from them.

I have so many loose photos that I've never gotten around to putting into albums, and now it seems like such a chore to sort through them. So instead of making prints, I've found it's easy and not that expensive to create photo books either on line at Shutterfly or Kodak Gallery or another service, or by using my own software like Photoshop Elements, My Memories Suite or Smilebooks. I now have several beautiful, professional looking photo books to display. You don't have to be naturally creative or a techie to create photo books because there are lots of templates and layouts to choose from and the software (either online or on your computer) does almost everything for you. Photo books are also lighter and less bulky than traditional photo albums.

Here are current sales and promos on Photo Books:

Smilebooks - 20% off Classic Smile Books thru 10/31/2009 with coupon code FALL20
My Memories Suite (Standard Package) SAVE 25% off Regular Pricing ORDER NOW! Plus, get an ADDITIONAL 10% off all My Memories Suite shippable products with Code: Halloween10OFF. Valid thru Oct 31, 2009.
Save 25% On Photo Books at Kodak Gallery. thru 10/13
Buy 2 Photo Books, Get a 3rd FREE at KODAK Gallery! thru 10/13
SeeHere by FujiFilm - 25% off all Photo Books with Promo Code 'photobooks' thru Nov 1
Shutterfly: Save 30% on your Photo books with a prepaid photo book plan.Thru 12/31/09

See below for more great discounts, including some free shipping offers, that could apply. If you miss a promotion, remember to check my website often (www.digitalphotos101.com/best-digital-photo-services.htm because I continually update the discount coupons and promotions available.

HP Snapfish is spreading the word to end Breast Cancer with Share to Care. From October 1-31, you can get a FREE Breast Cancer Awareness greeting card, with 5 designs to choose from. Use coupon code sharetocare at checkout. HP Snapfish will give 30% of proceeds to breastcancer.org from the sales of all pink designed notepads, notebooks, stickers, flutter calendars and any share to care cards. They're also having a "Show us you Care" contest. Tell them how you support Breast Cancer Awareness in big or small ways. HP Snapfish will select 20 random winners to receive $300 to give to the Breast Cancer organization of their choice. See other Snapfish discounts and offers.

Review: Photoshop Elements 8

Adobe just released Photoshop Elements 8. Once again, this is the best photo editing and enhancing software for under $100. Photoshop Elements includes many of the features of the much more expensive Photoshop in an easier, intuitive tabbed interface. You can edit, organize and enhance your photos, create calendars, photo books, greeting cards and scrapbooks and more. New enhancements include an Auto Analyzer to practically automate image tagging and a new People Recognition feature that identifies people in images, plus new one-click image editing tools. Adobe is offering a $20 mail-in rebate. You can read my full review of Photoshop Elements 8 here.

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Have a good week!

Valerie
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