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Summary: Buggy
Review: I bought version 1.0 and it was unusable. Now Adobe offers only a $10 break on the upgrade! No way. I'll try other products and let other folks pay retail for beta software.
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Summary: Letdown...disappointment
Review: I have been on the search of the best digital photo presentation/sharing software. I have been using MyDVD and found it to be just adequate. It produced DVDs that were simplistic, but got the job done. It was easy to use, but very limited. I have been an Adobe user for years with their Elements and Photoshop software. Having considered these programs the best of the best, I naturally thought Album 2.0 would be worthy. I was sadly disappointed. First, there is NO DVD support. VCD is it. The "slideshow" feature is so limited it would be funny if I hadn't shelled out close to 50 bucks for the program. It uses .PDF (naturally) only for creating slideshows...and with it limited to CDs, you better use low res files or not have much of a show planned because you are going to run out of CD quickly....and you will have to view it on a computer. For sharing to folks with a DVD player...the quality of a VCD is a joke! I am presently scanning all my parents old slides with a Nikon scanner with a slidefeeder. I have close to 3000 files so far at an average 35 megs apiece. CDs only is a joke for this type of work. This program does work for the few things it does, but I would spend you money elsewhere. Adobe...you let me down!
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Summary: Letdown...disappointment
Review: I have been on the search of the best digital photo presentation/sharing software. I have been using MyDVD and found it to be just adequate. It produced DVDs that were simplistic, but got the job done. It was easy to use, but very limited. I have been an Adobe user for years with their Elements and Photoshop software. Having considered these programs the best of the best, I naturally thought Album 2.0 would be worthy. I was sadly disappointed. First, there is NO DVD support. VCD is it. The "slideshow" feature is so limited it would be funny if I hadn't shelled out close to 50 bucks for the program. It uses .PDF (naturally) only for creating slideshows...and with it limited to CDs, you better use low res files or not have much of a show planned because you are going to run out of CD quickly....and you will have to view it on a computer. For sharing to folks with a DVD player...the quality of a VCD is a joke! I am presently scanning all my parents old slides with a Nikon scanner with a slidefeeder. I have close to 3000 files so far at an average 35 megs apiece. CDs only is a joke for this type of work. This program does work for the few things it does, but I would spend you money elsewhere. Adobe...you let me down!
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Summary: Network Publishing for the rest of us
Review: I have been using version 1 for a while and had a quick look at the free download trial version from Adobe.com. I really like the slideshow feature, something that is not obviously easy to do in Acrobat or Photoshop. This is a cut-down version of Photoshop with an asset management system thrown in. The bundle with Photoshop Elements could be interesting. Many people worked with Photoshop five many years ago and found the features enough...Can you add sound to a slideshow in Photoshop?
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Summary: The **Best** of all the digital Photo Edit & Mgmt. Products!
Review: I have purchased and used every digital photo editing and management software product. I'm not from the software industry or write stories for PC magazines. I'm just a family man who loves his digital cameras and editing, playing and storing my digital output. Without a question, adobe photoshop one and two is the best product in the market. Its allows anyone, with GREAT EASE OF USE to upload their digital pictures, edit them, print and any other desire, and then store the pictures for long-term preservation. You all can save your time and money and avoid the other products in the market; just go with the best. On top of all this, the price is very reasonable.
My only complaint is I was not aware of the 2.0 edition coming to market this past week, althought I'm very happy it came out and the new features are solid and make alot of sense.
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Summary: Some warnings on Adobe Photoshop Album
Review: I haven't upgraded to V 2 but I wanted to make a few comments about Photoshop Album that I haven't seen in other reviews. Overall, I think it is a fair program with a decent interface and if you are compulsive enough to tag everything, it has a reasonable system for storing and arranging photos. However, if you are a serious photographer, it is likely that your method of arranging photos won't be Adobe's. All imports go into the Photoshop album folder with cryptic folder titles that the program selects and it's cumbersome to go back and fix the folder titles so that they mean something. If you use Photoshop and save multiple versions of a single photograph you have worked on, Album has a non-intuitive way of storing your various edits that I find frustrating to deal with. If I save each edit as a separate file, I have to go back and re-import those files into Album or try to figure out how Album has stored them.
I mainly bought PS Album for its slide show capability but it has serious deficiencies: only one music file per slide show is the first. In spite of numerous user complaints, this was not fixed with version 2. Of course, you can concatenate multiple songs into one file but that requires additional software and expense if you don't already own music-editing software.
Secondly, believe it or not, PS Album will not burn a video DVD and this feature was not added to V 2. It will burn a slide show to a DVD and you can watch the slide show on a computer but not on a DVD player connected to a TV. You can, of course, make video CDs to watch on your TV, but Album has a tremendous overhead in that it creates gigantic PDF files and a slide show larger than 50 slides may not fit on a CD. (I have a slide show of 167 images totalling 297 MB and PS Album filled up 3.6 GB on a DVD +R !!). Thirdly, it takes a really long time for even a fast computer to create a slide show of this size.
One might imagine that creating such large disks takes time, and it does. Slow performance, inadequate features, and an organization method that forces me to adapt to PS Album rather than software that works the way I want it to, will keep me from upgrading to Version 2.
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Summary: Great concept, poor quality
Review: I like Photoshop Album. The user interface is quite intuitive, it's reasonably fast and it has all the features I need for working with thousands of digital photos. However, it wouldn't have hurt if Adobe had spent a few more QA cycles on it. I have updated to 2.0.1, but it's still pretty shaky.
Try to type european special characters via Alt+0xxx in the caption line - BOOM.
Try to import photos from a folder that also contains Quicktime videos (which my digital camera generates) - BOOM, and no workaround. There are now whole areas of my photo collection that I cannot view because I have accidentally imported Quicktime videos...
I don't use the "Creations" and "Online Services" parts of the program at all, so I can't say anything about them. I'd give four stars if the quality was reasonable. Let's hope the next version is better.
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Summary: A Warning About Raw Files & Suggestion About A Download
Review: I planned to save my RAW files created by my Canon Digital Rebel and was surprised to learn that, while Photoshop Album 2.0 can handle a number of different RAW formats, those created by that (popular) digital camera are not recognized (I confirmed this with Adobe). So, beware; check the Adobe web site for info about your camera before buying this package.
If you do purchase Photoshop Album 2.0, be sure to go to the Adobe Web site and look for recent downloads in order to get the latest version -- 2.0.1 Apparently this corrects a number of 'issues' that have plagued this program.
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Summary: Not recommended. Concept will not withstand future needs.
Review: I recently got his program with a new digital camera. After a few hours of use I must conclude, that any shareware is likely to be better. Adobe Photoshop Album has serious deficiencies. The program collects all images in a single window. There you have the possibility to assign tags. This will allow you to sort images according to the tags associated. Unfortunatley nobody knows where the tags are stored or where Adobe has decided to store the thumbnails associated with them. They are surely not associated to the image folder and the file where they are stored is encrypted. If you ever should decide to use a new program or to rearange the images you will find yourself in a big problem. Most likely you will loose all of your hiearchy and many hours of work. This is particularly troublesome, since Adobe Album does at no time create folders that somehow go along with the tags but rather leaves you with huge folders full of unsorted images. Also, if you ever should whish to share photos, you can create a slideshow. Rather than creating a file with referencs to the images already stored on your computer, a new Acrobat file is created. That would be fine - yet after 30 images your computer is about to crash, since the file generated from the meagapixel cameras that we nowadays have is just too big. It is unlikely that you can share your images at all... I would not recomend anybody to use this program. It might do a good job as long as you only frequently take pictures and as long as you do neither seriously share your images nor move images from one hard disk to another.
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: I started with PhotoShop Album 1.0. Because of it and the ease of managing and enjoying my photos, I really got back into digital photography. I had tried many other products and this is the best I've seen. When I upgraded to 2.0, I really appreciate many of the new features. The VCD creation is much improved. The new collection feature is extremely useful. The new editing tools (while pretty different from 1.0) are actually pretty amazing what they can do to a photo, particularly one that's too dark or lacks contrast. I also own PhotoShop Elements 2.0 and the integration between the two is very useful. My only gripe is that 2.0 seems to be a bit slower than 1.0 in moving around in the photo catalog. I think my 4 yr old computer (800MHz) is now starting to show it's age and I didn't notice it so much with 1.0, but that tends to happen with almost any software package these days. Highly recommended to anyone, particularly teamed with PhotoShop Elements 2.0 for fancier photo editing.
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