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Bored with plain-looking, computer-generated photo frames offered by picture editing software? Give your digital pictures a whole new look with cute photo frames in just seconds!

A picture is not complete without a frame. You can have a cute snapshot or a whole gallery of family pictures to email or show on a Web site, but will they impress the viewer? Have a look at portfolio sites of renowned family and wedding photographers. All of their pictures are carefully framed and signed, and all of them impress the viewer. Sure the frame won't make a bad picture look good, but a good matching frame can really enhance your pictures and add to the artistic impression.

You can frame your pictures in several ways. First, some of the many available online picture publishing services offer some free frames for your photos. While this is probably the only free way to frame your digital pictures, it has many limitations. For example, you are limited to a certain small size of the pictures, and the selection of available frames is usually scarce. Framing your pictures in one of the large all-purpose photo editing products such as Adobe Photoshop gives more flexibility and variety of the available frames, but it takes a while to frame dozens of pictures. Besides, the selection of frames is usually limited to a few boring and unappealing borders that can distract viewers instead of adding appeal to your pictures.

If you want to quickly frame a bunch of pictures, a dedicated framing product is what you need. Framing Studiooffers a selection of 70 frames included with the product, and offers 150 more frames to download after you purchase a copy. Framing many pictures is as easy as framing a single one. Just select a frame and pick the photos to work on, and Framing Studio will do the rest automatically. You can crop, rotate and resize images on the fly to produce pictures that are easy to email or publish online. Framing Studio supports a variety of border effects, allowing you to create your own frames in just a few clicks. You can also apply a variety of special effects to an image to make it look unique. The effects can be previewed in real time. Framing studio supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, ICO, WMF, EMF, and PNG images. Download your free evaluation copy of Framing Studio or learn more about the product by visiting: http://ams-soft.com/

Frames For Digital Pictures

There are a couple of different market trends going on right now that are forcing the price down. For a long time, you had to either print the pictures at home on your own printer (which cost about 30 cents per picture) or send them to a photo lab to get printed (which cost anywhere from 15 to 20 cents per picture).

Now the cost is dropping to 10-15 cents regardless of which option you choose. Kodak has developed a printer and paper system that will allow you to print photos at home for about 10 cents a picture. The printer is called the EasyShare AiO. It comes with one color ink cartridge and one black ink cartridge. The replacement costs for the cartridges are quite competitive ($15 and $10, respectively).

But the real deal comes from Kodak's special value packs. In the Standard pack, you can get the color cartridges along with 180 sheets of standard 4-by-6-inch glossy paper for $18 (for a cost per photo of 10 cents). The paper quality in this pack is a little thin, but fine for most people. For those who want higher quality prints, go with the $20 Premium pack. It has the same color cartridge and 135 sheets of slightly thicker 4-by-6-inch glossy paper. That comes out to a cost of 15 cents per photo. (Of course, these prices don't include the price of the printer.)

The second trend is a price war at the photo labs. Costco Wholesale and Wal-Mart have been duking it out for some time. But a new player is now on the scene that should drive the price down to 12 cents or less. The new company is Snapfish, an obscure lab that actually has been on the scene for some time, but wasn't able to make a dent in the market. That's about to change, though.

Hewlett Packard, which has much deeper pockets for marketing, recently bought out Snapfish. The new owner will definitely be able to make inroads into the market. In fact, it's already happening. The company is offering 25 free prints to get started. And then it's only 12 cents per shot after that. You can check out this deal at www.snapfish.com.

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