I'm really excited about a new book I found, and I think you will be too. It's called Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love. It offers hundreds of innovative, fun and creative ways to display your photos and decorate and personalize your home. Your photo projects would make great holiday gifts, too. More about this great book below, as well as on Adobe's new release of Photoshop Elements 5.

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Photocraft: A Great Book for Digital Photographers, Scrapbookers and Crafters

Many of us have hundreds, if not thousands, of great photos stored on our computer or CDs, and we just need to get ideas of what to do with them. Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love holds the key. Most of the projects are fairly simple and have step-by-step instructions with color photos and line illustrations. The book walks you through basic photo-editing techniques and also offers great ideas that don't require you to be computer savvy.

Here is one of my favorite projects:

Jewel Case Display: Crop your photos to the size of a CD case (5 3/8" x 4 5/8") and print on photo paper. Use standard CD cases—the standard thickness, not the thin kind (you can get them from an office supply store). Back each photo with either cardboard or foam board and insert into the case and snap it closed. You can attach them to the wall using Velcro fasteners. A nice idea is to create a rotating gallery of photos by displaying 12 photos 4 across and 4 down.

You can also turn your favorite photo a shower curtain, a kitchen clock, a tote bag, lamp shade, quilt, folding screen, scarf, pins, wallpaper, chair-rail border, tile coasters, and much, much more.

You can get Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love. at Amazon

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5, Adobe's latest release, offers exciting new features in a well-designed package of photo editing, organizing and sharing capabilities. Once again, Adobe is ahead of the pack. If you didn't upgrade when Photoshop Elements 4 was released, or you are looking for a new photo editing program, now is the time to do it. You'll love all the features in Photoshop Elements 5, and it's suitable for beginners as well as advanced users. Read our full review here

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