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If you get a digital camera for Christmas or Hanukkah this year and start snapping away, you can accumulate hundreds or even thousands of digital pictures amazingly quickly. And even if a lot of them ...

Apple and Google both offer apps that not only store your photo collection but also let you edit and do some wild things with your images. Here’s how they stack up. I've been testing PC and mobile ...

I tend toward minimalism in the physical world, but when it comes to digital detritus, I could be featured on a special episode of Hoarders. I’m particularly bad with photos: I take a ton and delete ...

Modern smartphones have remarkably good cameras and make it easy to instantly share photos with friends, family or social media. But having a camera in your pocket also means you’re likely to take a ...

Q. I’m retired and I travel a lot. After each trip I end up with hundreds of pictures. I would like to organize them by trip and put them in the correct time sequence. I would like to insert some ...

This week a reader writes: “I used to use Picasa [to organize photos], but it is no longer available. Over the years I have had my PC upgraded with new hard drives. I have about 30 years of pictures, ...