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Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, today announced the availability of a range of solutions for the photo imaging market that are based on Roxio PhotoShow, the company's platform for creating and sharing slideshows.

For camera manufacturers Roxio unveiled PhotoShow Express, a multi-language client software application that enables consumers to quickly compose customized photo presentations complete with transitions, effects, animations, and a professional music track. PhotoShow Express is also available as an SDK.

In addition, Roxio introduced a PhotoShow digital camera API (application programming interface) which enables the direct transfer of photos from the camera to PhotoShow.com where they can be preserved, shared, or used in the creation of multimedia slideshows.

Roxio has also introduced a PhotoShow software development kit (SDK) aimed at the rapidly expanding retail photo kiosk market. The Roxio PhotoShow SDK, which can be integrated into retail photofinishing kiosks. The Roxio PhotoShow SDK allows kiosk users to produce slideshow DVDs in minutes that can be viewed on the PC or on a TV via a set-top DVD player.

The Roxio PhotoShow capabilities will be available later this quarter as part of Lucidiom's Automated Photo Machine (APM) kiosks.