Best-of-breed photo management, editing and sharing with great usability and value.

Best-of-breed photo management, editing and sharing with great usability and value.

We have seen digital camera technology mature in the past few years to produce good quality photos with a range of features to satisfy all levels of photography.

The Complete Digital Photography is an excellent and comprehensive book about all aspects of digital photography. The author makes a strong distinction early on however: this is a book about digital photographs taken with a digital camera, not film photos scanned to be manipulated. This is an important point, as the book goes into great depth about how to take photos under varying conditions and then manipulate them afterwards.

The MP500 is a great all-rounder. It’s capable of excellent print quality at high speeds, plus CD printing, has an automatic duplex module and a tempting price.

This is one of the most complete office multifunction printers we've ever seen. but the MFC-885CW can’t overcome its price or quality issues.

For a new release, Snapfire already looks old-fashioned and unexciting, but at least the basic version is free.

Capable of reproducing good photos, but it’s slow, a bit expensive to run and has a poor scanner.

Modern photo management software that offers surprising power, especially considering it’s free.

While HP’s strength in photo printing is once again proved, mono prints take too long and the scanner is poor.

Great design, great photos and some clever features, but it struggles to justify the high price.

The V570 is a fine camera but isn’t for everyone. The ability to take wide-angle photos is a great feature, though there’s a slight trade-off in image quality compared to similarly priced snappers

A new interface, smart albums, guided editing and photo merging keep Photoshop Elements ahead of the pack

Moving in the right direction, but it isn’t easy teaching an old dog new tricks.

The proliferation of cheap digital cameras and DVD burners means that consumers, with the help of programs like Ulead PictureShow, can now create their own professional-looking slideshows on DVD at little cost.

Selecting the right photo editing software can be a difficult task, given the number of capabilities offered in today's graphics packages.

Good photo quality and a large touchscreen make this the A4 inkjet to buy.

The best home-office choice with an ADF and fax, plus good text speeds and quality. Those looking for a photo printer should look elsewhere, though.

Cheap to buy and run, the X5470 is great for mono printing, but less so for photos and images.

There is nothing new about digital video cameras being able to take still photos, or digital still cameras being able to take video clips. However, in the past the results have been very ordinary - stills taken on a video camera were usually 640 x 480 snaps suitable for the Web, and little else.