17. Organizing Your Image Files

If you’re like me, chances are your computer is quickly taking the place of your stack of photo albums, as well as shelves full of CDs and LPs. Not only that, but many of my family movies exist only as computer files. Home and business computers alike are becoming filled with media files in many formats. Depending on when the media files were created or downloaded, they can exist throughout your file system and be hard to locate and organize.

That’s where Expression Media comes in. Media is a tool for managing your images, movies, and song files. With Media’s help, you’ll never lose track of a file again, and you can be better organized with your photos and other multimedia assets than ever before. This chapter presents an overview of Media and explains how Microsoft Expression Media can help small businesses and individuals organize, manipulate, and track their digital assets, such as video, graphics, and photo files.