Photograph album

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For other types of albums, see album.

A photographic album, or photo album, is a collection of a series of photographs, generally in a book. Some albums have compartments which the photos may be slipped in to; older style albums often were simply books of heavy paper which photos could be glued to or attached to with adhesive corners, or pages.

[edit] Online

Online photos can be uploaded and made into a coffee table style photobook. Different online services offer options such as photo editing, varied sizes, varied bleeds, layouts, cover design, colors, etc. Some services even expand the idea of a photo album by allowing a photograph to become part of many photo albums, add comments and keywords to these photographs and use these keywords as the mean to create new photo albums. Some online photo albums provide services such as photo printing and options to upload pictures to your cellular phones.

[edit] Software

There are many software programs available to organize images in folders or albums, such as Adobe Photoshop Album and Picasa. These programs generally allow for sorting and ordering of different images, tagging the images, and viewing them in slideshows or printing them. These programs commonly allow the user to perform basic edits such as cropping, red-eye removal, and some basic "one touch" enhancements for color and lighting.

There are also many other, lay-up software programs available for making photobooks. These are generally offered free, such as Photobook Designer. These programs are generally not specifically designed for photo editing, more for the express purpose of creating a book that will eventually be printed and bound into a [(photobook)]. These programs are generally provided by the company that print and bind the photobooks. Therefore the home printing function is generally not available.