Peachpit Releases The Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find, and Share Your Photos

Berkeley, CA—Sept. 9, 2009—Billions of baby, graduation, and wedding photos around the world are often ignored or misfiled into obscurity by casual photographers everywhere. The solution: Peachpit’s The Digital Shoebox: How to Organize, Find and Share Your Digital Photos, by Sarah Bay Williams.

While managing hundreds of thousands of digital photos for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Williams realized that people need an easy-to-remember system for organizing their photos that doesn’t feel like homework.

The Digital Shoebox is a small and easy-to-reference guide packed with helpful tips and amusing anecdotes, designed to help readers keep their photographs organized and accessible.

“People get frustrated with everything from downloading photos to annoying applications that organize their photos for them automatically,” Williams said. “What happens if that application goes away? Then where will their photos be?”

About The Author

Sarah Bay Williams served as Communications Photography Coordinator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (presenters of the Oscars) from 2004 to 2008, where she managed hundreds of thousands of digital photos for a growing historic collection. She also enjoyed attending and working at five Oscars presentations. She is now the Ralph M. Parsons Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and lives in the very photogenic neighborhood of Venice, California.

About New Riders, an imprint of Peachpit

Berkeley-based New Riders is the internationally recognized design and photography imprint of Peachpit. Peachpit has been publishing the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, digital lifestyle, and all-things Mac-related since 1986. Its award-winning books feature authors who are at the top of their field, pioneering new techniques and new approaches. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Kelby Training/NAPP, Apple Certified, and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson, the international media company. Pearson’s primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com.

Contact

Laura Pexton, Publicist
510-558-4166
press@peachpit.com