After taking loads of great photos on holiday, or at a major family event you'll want to share them with others. That's not easy, of course: it's too many to email in a single file, and some family or friends may not have a PC anyway. Fortunately Roxio have the solution.

Install MyDVD SlideShow and it'll let you collect together all your favourite images (JPEG, BMP and all the main graphics formats are supported) on a single disc. DVDs aren't supported on this version, but even writing to CD you still get almost 650MB to play with, more than enough for most purposes.

After dragging and dropping your images into the required order, you might also choose to add a soundtrack. This could be just an MP3 file, or a WAV narration where you tell the story of each image -- it's your call.

It's even possible to split the project into several mini slideshows, which might be preferable if you've lots of photos to share. For a family wedding you might have sections like Preparations, Getting to the Church, The Service, Reception and so on. MyDVD SlideShow keeps things organised by letting you build a DVD-like chapter menu where each button points to a separate slideshow.

Once you're done, click Burn and the slideshow will be written to CD for you. Mail it off to family or friends and they'll be able to play it on most stand-alone DVD players, or just about any PC with a software DVD player.

Roxio Easy Media Creator includes MyDVD Slideshow and a huge range of other utilities: CD and DVD authoring, disc copying, audio capturing and CD or DVD label design, photo organising, graphics and video editing, a DVD player, system backup and more. Save 10% on this suite (that's £62.99 instead of £69.99) and other Roxio products either by following the links at www.roxio.co.uk/adban/cd-upgrade/upgrade_en.jhtml, or using the discount code magazines when requested in the Roxio store.