by : Jelaine Macaraeg

Now you too can get famous among your family and peers – no, not with shoemaking – but with the creative projects you’ll be producing with your handy-dandy digital camera and your every own elf. No, not the magical kind but the digital variety – PhotoELF!

PhotoELF claims to be the only software package you’ll ever need for viewing, editing, printing and organizing your digital photos – truly “The Digital Camera Companion." Not only does it provide a photo editing suite, but it’s also versatile in terms of file support and even provides many time-saving capabilities.
While viewing your photo, simply click on the “Editor" button from the toolbar. From here, you may adjust the image’s contrast, brightness, gamma, saturation, hue and sharpness. You may also despeckle scanned images, crop, rotate, remove red-eye, add text and shapes, even create holiday cards, posters and calendars, add some fun effects, do JPG compression and save photo in 60 different formats such as BMP, EMF, FPX, ICO, IFF, JPG, PCT, PCX, PNG, PSD, TIF and WMF just to name a few. Now, that’s what I call versatility!
PhotoELF’s efficiency lies on it’s batch operation capabilities. You can rotate, rename, resize, convert photo file formats, do JPG compression, set dpi, adjust brightness and contrast, manipulate color saturation and hue, print, crop, toggle between read-only and read/write and apply watermarks, texts and logos – not only to a single photo but to an entire batch.

Feeling the itch to be more creative? Let it all out! Create albums using the HTML Photo Album Wizard, which comes with various slideshow options. You may even add music in MP3 and WAV file formats to your photo albums. Share your creations to family and friends by burning them onto CDs. You may also publish them to the World Wide Web for all the world to see. These albums can be viewed with any Web browser whether your on or offline.
Read enough? If you want to try PhotoELF now, they’re offering a two-week trial, afterwhich you may purchase it for $24.95 at .