TicTacPhoto

You can't beat the practicality of digital photography. But for most of us, the results sit on hard drives and memory cards, rarely being seen in their full glory � or worse, being corrupted or deleted. Tictacphoto has the perfect solution.

The tradition of placing prints into album has always been a practical, simple and tactile way to share your images. Tictacphoto's range of quality albums brings this more emotional tradition full circle, as a way for today's professionals to create a portfolio from their digital images, and for any camera user to enhance their memories and gift their photos to friends and relatives.

While similar services are available, people�s expectations are often of a disappointing cheap and tacky album. The difference with Tictacphoto is high quality and at an affordable price.

The images are only as good as the paper stock and presentation. Tictacphoto prints the images onto 250gsm stock and coats each page in a UV protective layer for durability and long-lasting colour. The printing technology is the result of significant research and development with Xerox to ensure superior quality images.

You can create from 30 to 120 pages in your album. That's up to 1080 images, or even a full enlargement of an image on each page which slashes the comparable cost of individual prints. The pages are professionally bound into a substantial padded leatherette or linen outer cover. There's a choice of colours and finished sizes to provide a strong and stylish album.

You can also enhance your album with different features. Each printed leaf can be separated by opaque glassine paper; text can be printed on the front cover and spine in a gold or silver embossed font; metal gold or silver cover corners can be added for style and strength.

Creating the album artwork is as simple as you could wish. You organise your digital images on your PC using some easy-to-use yet sophisticated software that's free to download. For simplicity there's a choice of templates and backgrounds to create your own album pages. You can add text beneath pictures, and when you're finished upload your artwork and have a high quality album couriered to you in five days.

If you're more creative the software is a powerful tool for image editing and allows for completely free-form page design, for you to create a completely personal album.

The experience is fun and friendly, and begins at www.tictacphoto.com.

Requirements:

￭ Minimum processor: Processor 900-meghertz (MHz) Intel Pentium-class, or AMD Opteron, or AMD Athlon XP processor ￭ Minimum memory: 256 Mb Ram of memory are recommended. ￭ Minimum operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition. ￭ Hard drive: 150 MB of free space on the hard drive are required to install the software and .Net Framework ￭ Connection: ASDL or cable