Rating: Summary: Annoying program to work with Review: I had the first version too and with the rebate decided to go ahead and upgrade.Like many people I have a couple of digital cameras and have had them for 3 years. I have built up about 2500+ pictures and was having a hard time storing them with just a standard file system. PS Album changes all of that. It will allow you to create tags for all of your pictures allowing you to easily search for the picture you want. As example I just went to my brother's wedding and took about 160 pics. If I want to find a picture of my grandmother there rather than having to look at all 160 of them I just choose two tags - "Jeff's Wedding and Grandmother" and it brings up all three pictures of grandmother at the wedding. Now you do have to tag your pictures, and it probably took me about 2 weeks when I first got the software to tag all of my old pictures. However if you do it as you go it is very quick and intuitive. And it makes finding a few pictures so much easier if you have a lot of them like I do. My machine is decent but not great. I have a P4 1.6 Ghz with 640 MB Ram. I have no problems what so ever browsing up all of my pictures at once. Most of them were taken with a 5 MP camera and average about 1.5 MB a piece. However as you browse them you are only looking at thumbprints and so it is really pretty quick. To summarize this software is very easy to use and I wouldn't want to be without it.
Rating: Summary: Best for sorting your movies Review: This is a very good program and the best when it comes to cataloging your photos. The tag system makes it very easy to find photos once you've taken the time to tag them. For instance, if you tag the photos, you can then find pictures of baby 1-2 months old, or the baby and grandma, etc. The "Fix" tools are also good basic tools that are a must to enhance digital photos. If you want a more robust photo editor buy Photoshop Elements, but for the basic color enhancements, etc. this works great.
Rating: Summary: Changed the Way I Store Digital Photos Review: I did not want this product. My husband bought it and thought it would be a good way to store the increasing number of digital photos on our computer. I liked my file folder system I already had. But once he taught me how to use it, I love it!! All the photos are right there to view. You can search by who is in the photo, there is a timeline at the top to view them by, etc. It took some time to classify all the existing photos, but it has been worth the time.
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