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Desktop Darkroom

Free those snapshots from your digital camera. We show you the simplest and best ways to transfer the pictures to your PC, edit them, share the photos online, and order prints.

Grace Aquino

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So you've bought a digital camera, or you're about to make the leap--no film, no negatives, no fuss. But there's another side to digital photography: the downloads, the tweaking, the printing, the archiving.

Sound complicated? It isn't, if you know the ropes and have the right tools. We show you the simplest and best ways of transferring your pictures to a PC, enhancing them, sharing them online, and ordering prints.

So take that digital camera to the ball game, to your sister's wedding, and to your buddy's Fourth of July barbecue. And read on for a bonanza of tips telling how to make the most of your desktop darkroom.

Still shopping for a digital camera? Check our Top 10 Digital Cameras for feature-by-feature comparisons of the best models in the current crop priced at $500 or less.

Grace Aquino and Melissa Perenson are associate editors, Alan Stafford a senior editor, and Harry McCracken an executive editor for PC World. PC World Test Center performance analyst Robert James conducted the card reader tests.

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