Best Software Picks for Editing and Archiving Your Summer Vacation

For software solutions to best capture, store, edit and archive all those digital pictures and video you'll be shooting on your summer vacation, look no further than Adobe's new Photo Shop Album and Pinnacle's Studio 8 software.

For digital camera owners, Adobe has a new software out called PhotoShop Album. This simplified version of their Photoshop professional photo editing software is both powerful and easy to use. Photoshop Album let's you retouch photos, shrink them down for emailing size, make slide shows, screensavers even create calendars and other fun projects. Best of all, Adobe Album allows you to archive all your digital images in one place on your PC. Categorization is easy too with simple drag and drop icons (i.e. Family, Friends, Vacation) that automatically file your memories complete with timeline and easy folder access. $50. www.adobe.com

On the video front, Best Stuff recommends Pinnacle Studio 8. Pinnacle takes all of your video out of your camcorder, dumps it onto your PC and breaks your video up into scenes. Then you simply pick and choose the scenes you want, delete the scenes you don't want; add professional transitions, titles to create a professional looking video. Best news of the day is you can burn it onto a CD or DVD to share with others. $100. www.pinnaclesys.com