Digital photos are great—if you can get them off your camera and into the hands of friends and family.

Top three things you can do:

• Fix flaws and add creative effects

• Organize for easy browsing

• Create slideshows and share online

That's where Windows can help. To get the best digital photo experience, download Windows Live Photo Gallery for free. Then with the tools it offers along with Windows Media Center in Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, you and your photos will be in great shape for sharing. You'll have tons of options, from showing them on your PC or TV all the way through sending photos in e-mail or through an online print service.

Download, find, and share photos easily with Windows Photo Gallery.

Shaping up the photos

With Windows Live Photo Gallery and a few clicks, you can remove red eye, fix exposure problems, and correct color, or crop photos for maximum impact.

You can also use Windows Live Photo Gallery to stitch together multiple shots into spectacular panoramas.

Touch ups, of course, aren't the only challenge that photographers face. For many, just finding a shot can become a treasure hunt. Windows Live Photo Gallery makes it a bit easier by automatically organizing the photos in the camera by time and date. You can also pinpoint photos in seconds with keywords, or bubble up your best work by sorting on a star rating.

You can pick any tag name you like.

Sharing and showing off your snapshots

Need a frame-quality print? The Photo Print Wizard feature can make one with your printer—or through popular online processors such as Shutterfly and Snapfish. It's also easy to e-mail resized photos to friends or upload them to popular sharing sites such as Flickr, Windows Live Photos, and Soapbox on MSN Video.

It doesn't stop with individual photos. Digital slideshows are a great way to share a collection of photos, say of your recent vacation. Windows Live Movie Maker is the key. Select the pictures you want to include, and with a single click your show comes together automatically. Or you can have some fun creating your own masterpiece, complete with titles, credits, transitions, and an original soundtrack. Then, you can use DVD Maker to quickly burn a DVD to share with friends and family.

Print your pictures with the Photo Print Wizard.