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Summary: Lots of trouble
Review: A good product bundled with Photoshop elements. The program is mostly intuitive, presenting your photos in a way that make sense. The tagging feature, to sort photos, works nicely. The program does freeze up a bit, especially when moving back and forth between the Album and the Editor. All in all, for amateur photographers (and software users) such as myself, this is a good product. If you learn it you will eventually work around the small problems.
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Summary: Great Product
Review: Adobe Photoshop Album is simple and straightforward to use. In a word, it is very intuitive. That cannot often be said about software. It can do basic photo editing, but Photoshop Elements or similar program is needed for in depth editing. But if all you do is crop and remove red-eye, this will do it. I would highly recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Fatally Flawed Product
Review: Adobe's created a really great product - see other reviews for the many great features. Unfortunately, PSA also hides any directory name manipulation from the user - presumably in an effort to increase ease of use. Sadly, this means that 1) You can't combine using Photoshop Album with other photo managment programs in a meaningful way 2) You can't change the location of your photos (like, to a different disk) once they're in the catalog 3) Restoring from backup destroys your directory data 4) Saving to CD loses your directory data. What it does it does well, but if any of the above problems bother you, consider a different program.
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Summary: Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0
Review: Album 2.0 is a great product for the quick and easy scanning & downloading of photos, editing and correcting, and organizing them into family and work catagories. I organize the photos with 'tags' (labels) identified by person, place and family/work event or other catagories. That way, I can pull up all photos in the catagory of "Aunt Bessie", my "1999 Barcelona Vacation", "Old Swedish Relatives", "Son's 2003 Birthday Party", or "San Andreas Fault-Imperial Valley" and create slide shows for friends, relatives and collegues. I haven't yet tapped into 20% of the resources available with the program. For those difficult to edit photos using Album 2.0, one can use Elements or Photoshop.
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Summary: Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0
Review: Album 2.0 is a great product for the quick and easy scanning & downloading of photos, editing and correcting, and organizing them into family and work catagories. I organize the photos with 'tags' (labels) identified by person, place and family/work event or other catagories. That way, I can pull up all photos in the catagory of "Aunt Bessie", my "1999 Barcelona Vacation", "Old Swedish Relatives", "Son's 2003 Birthday Party", or "San Andreas Fault-Imperial Valley" and create slide shows for friends, relatives and collegues. I haven't yet tapped into 20% of the resources available with the program. For those difficult to edit photos using Album 2.0, one can use Elements or Photoshop.
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Summary: Still Fatally Flawed; Much Better Alternatives Available
Review: Although this product might be of use to the very casual photographer with a small number of images to manage, it still lacks two critical features missing from version 1.0 and that any one with more than a few-hundred locally stored photos will sorely miss: (1) no support for networked files without storage-hogging local caching and (2) no support for exporting catalog data. The lack of the first feature means that a local copy is made of each image you wish to index in Photoshop Album (not a good thing if you have several thousand images stored on a network!) and the lack of the second means that all of your data is trapped in Photoshop Album and is unavailable for use in other applications. While these are flaws that might be fixed in a future version (though I'm not optimistic, given the effort that Adobe put into incidental user interface improvements in the current upgrade while ignoring these critical problems) there are two fatal flaws in the way Photoshop Album organizes images that make this product basically useless for even the casual photographer: (1) library information (tags, keywords, etc.) are not stored with the images but instead are kept in a separate database and (2) the program has no concept of folder monitoring. The first flaw is just plain bad design to my mind: because the keywords and other "metadata" applied to the images is not stored in the images themselves, if you move images around, copy them, back them up, or simply switch to another image library program in the future all of your annotations are lost. The second flaw is a huge inconvenience: it forces you to do all of your image library organization using Photoshop Album. If you decide to rearrange the folders where your images are stored, or add some images using the file system or another program, Photoshop Album will loose track of them. There are workarounds to some of these problems (if you have Microsoft Access and can parse Photoshop Albums database, you could eventually export the album data to another program, and if you're willing to e-mail yourself copies of all of you photos, you can get versions with at least some of the metadata stored into the image files) but why bother? A much better option for photographers of any level is Microsoft's Digital Image Library 9.0 -- it has none of the shortcomings of Photoshop Album, and even has (surprisingly!) a more functional and cleaner user interface for browsing and navigating large image libraries (the thumbnail zoom and "find similar" features are impressive). A further note: the "comparison chart" that Adobe posts on its website comparing Photoshop Album to Microsoft Digital Image Library and Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album is inaccurate and misleading. Digital Image Library, for example, has almost all of the features listed in the "Organize and Find Your Photos" section, and does a better job of implementing almost all of them than Photoshop Album, though you'd never know it from the chart.
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Summary: Do not rush to buy this product!
Review: Before buying this product go to Adobe Photoshop Album user forums. There has been much disatisfaction with version 1.0 and the jury is still out on 2.0. For me the biggest flaw is the inability to make good quality VCDs let alone DVD quality. VCDs I have made are low quality with blurred images. I only use the product for email of slideshows using the .pdf Acrobat Reader format--that is excellent.
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Summary: Rebate Scam
Review: Beware. Adobe is not honoring the rebate on this item. That and the poor quality of this software mean that you should look elsewhere.
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Summary: Check system requirements carefully!!!!!
Review: Despite the systems requirements given here at Amazon, www.adobe.com states that the required operating systems for Windows are Windows Millenneum, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. There is no mention of Windows 98. I downloaded the free starter edition to my Windows 98 machine and it could not find the "My Catalog" file. I went through the process twice with the same results. I take it that Adobe means what it says: if you are still running Windows 98, you must contribute several hundred dollars to Microsoft to be able to use this $49.99999999 software package.
Note: Adobe does not give technical support for trial editions, so I could not verify my assumption regarding Windows 98.
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Summary: Free Version Almost Better
Review: I bought Album 2.0 after using the free "Starter Edition" online, which I really liked. Turns out the free version actually has different features .. many of which work work better! For example, the free version has a really good red-eye reduction while the full version is seems worse. The free version includes Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, while the full version only includes Adobe's poor "automated" lighting and color controls that degrade image quality and aren't as good as the tools in the free version. Worst of all, they don't even include basic brightness and contrast in the full version! I actually reverted back to the free version to get the better editing tools. Unbelievable Adobe .. what's up!?! Wish they could learn from Apple and iPhoto!
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