Lifeline for photographers drowning in the digital deluge

Digital photography is great but just how do you get full value from the hundreds of shots that are so readily captured? While Flash, Bang, Wallop gets easier, sticking it in the family album is just impossible!

Now salvation is at hand, thanks to a sophisticated new piece of software called LifeThemes which enables you to not only save and catalogue thousands of images on your PC but, more importantly, to get maximum value from them by creating evocative multimedia panoramas of your life.

LifeThemes’ comprehensive indexing and search functions let you create libraries of information about people, places, family, pets and other important elements of your life, but that’s only the start. Thanks to the program’s unique and powerful ability to link data, you can gain maximum benefit from your treasured photographs by combining them with video, audio and text to produce memorable ‘LifeLines’ that can cover decades and be passed from generation to generation like a digital time capsule.

Published in the UK by LifeStyle Software, LifeThemes also features a unique system of individual diaries that help you run your daily life. Automatic task reminders mean that you’ll never forget important things and there are also customisable holiday and party planning wizards to help you organise special events. Himself a keen photographer, founder and owner of LifeStyle Software, John Willis said: “When I got into digital photography I very quickly amassed a huge collection of shots and it was the need to catalogue and make good use of them that first gave me the idea for LifeThemes.

“Now we are bringing to market a tool that is easy to use and that we believe is unique in the breadth of features it offers not only to keen photographers but to the thousands of families or individuals who just feel the need to leave their mark by creating a vibrant record of their lives.”