I'd like my users to be able click a button on a form that automatically starts camera software and saves the photo they take with the client information. In desperate need of ideas on how to automate this. It sounds like I need to store the photos outside of the mdb and have a text field in my client table that points to the name of the graphic file. Any ideas on how to activate a digital camera, save the picture with a file name, and store that name in the text field.