Photo Album Tutorials
An introduction to Photo Album
Get familiar with the layout and interface of Photo Album, and learn how to quickly find all your tools. Before you know it, you'll be creating entertaining slideshows and great-looking print projects, such as calendars and scrapbooks.
Starting a project from the Home tab
The Home tab is the first of the four work areas in Photo Album, and is the most frequent starting point for organizing your photos and videos, as well as doing basic edits and outputs. Look how easy it is to start a project!
Creating print projects
Learn how to turn your photos into beautiful print projects, like calendars, collages and greeting cards.
Enhancing photos
Photo Album's Enhance tab is where you'll do all of your serious photo editing to touch up and improve your favorite pictures. Follow this tutorial and learn how to do quickly adjust lighting or colors, remove red-eye, crop photos and more.
Create a Photo Album Show
See how easy it is to create your own interactive, animated slideshows, videos and DVDs.
Photo Album and Paint Shop Pro Photo
Make your photos and projects look even better! If you have Paint Shop Pro Photo, you can launch it from within Photo Album and it will take any photo you're working on into the application, allow you to edit it with increased precision and advanced features, then automatically bring that newly edited photo back into Photo Album, where it will be updated in any project you're working on.
Photo Downloader
(PDF, 270 KB)See how the Photo Downloader makes accessing your camera and organizing easy. After using Photo Downloader the first time you'll be set for zero-click downloads!
Quick Print
(PDF, 624 KB)Use Quick Print to easily print one or many photos in standard sizes.
Favorite Photos
(PDF, 558 KB)Mark your favorites with a star and keep them handy for viewing anytime! Favorite Photos keeps your top pictures within reach without creating extra copies.
Searching for Photos
(PDF, 291 KB)Find photos fast by searching by date or your own custom keyword entries.
Slide Show to Share.pdf
(PDF, 588 KB)Put your photos in a slide show then create one easy slide show file you can share with friends and family.
Sending an E-card
(PDF, 1.15 MB)Turn a photo into an email by combining your photo, a colorful template, and your personal message then send it off all from within Photo Album.
Greeting Card
(PDF, 825 KB)Select a colorful greeting card template, then drag and drop your photo and print it.
Creating a Calendar
(PDF, 902 KB)Choose from a variety of month or one-year templates when you make a calendar featuring your own photos!
Photo Sharing
(PDF, 416 KB)Select photos and upload them to an online photo sharing site to show off or order prints.
Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Tutorials
Adjust Flash and Backlighting
(PDF, 995 KB)Paint Shop Photo Album can help you expose details lurking in the shadows and add contrast to washed out areas. Photo Album has several easy tools to help you add flash to an image, reduce the backlighting, and fix other lighting problems.
Creating a Coffee Table Book
(PDF, 2.17 MB)With Paint Shop Photo Album creating a stunning book is easier than you think. All you need to do is choose your favorite photos and drag them into the template. Creating a beautiful masterpiece has never been so easy.
Create 12x12 Scrapbook Page
(PDF, 1.54 MB)Creating a beautiful scrapbook album isn't a big project with Paint Shop Photo Album! We'll show you how easy it is to drag your photos into a template, add your own journaling, and print a beautiful page.
Create and Print Your Own Greeting Cards
(PDF, 2.77 MB)Photo Album contains Greeting Card templates that you can use to create special cards that contain your own photos and greetings. Just select a card style, page style, and then drag pictures into the cells and add text. Print it, fold it, and your done!
Create Your Own CD Labels
(PDF, 1.01 MB)With Paint Shop Photo Album, you can make the CD/DVDs you burn special by creating your own labels. Creating your own labels will make it easier for you to identify what's on your archive CDs just by looking at them.
Creating Your Own Photo Keepsake
In this tutorial, we will show you how to turn an average photo into a keepsake by converting it to black and white, adding a photo edge, and picture frame.
Crop Like a Pro
(PDF, 496 KB)Use Photo Album's Crop tool to eliminate unwanted elements at the edges and draw attention to the photo subject
Design Your Own Calendars
(PDF, 2.94 MB)Enjoy your photos throughout the year with Photo Album's Calendar template. Choose a calendar style, the photos you want to use, and presto – you're done.
Design Your Own Workflow
(PDF, 1.06 MB)With Paint Shop Photo Album creating your own organizational system is easy. You can configure the folder naming convention and location so that each time you download photos from your camera, making them easy to locate.
Organize Your Photo Collection With Keywords
(PDF, 656 KB)Getting your photo collection organized is a breeze with Paint Shop Photo Album. By assigning keywords to your photos you can create your own photo-organization system in minutes. You can assign keywords to photos that include the name of a location, occasion, subject, or anything else you can imagine.
Printing Borderless Photos
(PDF, 0.98 MB)Save time. Save money! Print your own 4 x 6 inch prints right at home. Here's how to print your photos using Paint Shop Photo Album and a photo-quality printer.
Protect Your Photos
Protect your digital memories from being lost forever with Paint Shop Photo Album's PhotoSafe™ Archiving System. This tutorial will show you how to use Photo Album to track which photos need to be archived, alert you when photos need to be archived, and burn photos to CD.Sending an E-Card
(PDF, 1.35 MB)With Paint Shop Photo Album you can share your photos over the Internet by e-mailing your family and friends an E-Card. It's so easy to drag your photos into these professionally-designed templates that you'll want to send E-Cards to everyone you know.
View Your Photos
(PDF, 1.02 MB)With Photo Album you can choose the way you view photos, easily switching back and forth between four useful options: Favorite Folders, Calendar, Keywords, or All Folders. You can even view photos on CD! By following along with this tutorial using your own folders and photos, you'll learn how to find all your photos fast!
Work With Collections
(PDF, 694 KB)You can create Collections of photos from anywhere on your computer without having to make physical copies of your files. A Collection is a virtual grouping of your photos, that allows you to view photos that are located all over your computer in a single place - without having to create a copy of the photo. You can create collections of photos that you want to print, put into a slide show, or show-off in a book.
Get Organized in a Flash by Working with Groups of Photos
(PDF, 553 KB)You can use Photo Album's Batch tools to quickly and easily enhance, resize, and rename multiple photos at the same time.