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Summary: You get what you pay for
Review: I got PhotoDeluxe 4.0 Home Edition free with my current scanner. I used it for about eight months (using windows XP), and had limited success editing photos and graphics. The menus are not intuitive, and I never was able to print photos using the program. A few days ago I downloaded a trail version of Paint Shop Pro 8. What a difference. I don't feel like an idiot anymore, and I can actually edit my photos without constantly looking to the 'help' menu. Photodeluxe is not completely useless, but I cannot see spending money on it when there are other programs out there that work much better for the same price.
Rating:
Summary: You get what you pay for
Review: I got PhotoDeluxe 4.0 Home Edition free with my current scanner. I used it for about eight months (using windows XP), and had limited success editing photos and graphics. The menus are not intuitive, and I never was able to print photos using the program. A few days ago I downloaded a trail version of Paint Shop Pro 8. What a difference. I don't feel like an idiot anymore, and I can actually edit my photos without constantly looking to the 'help' menu. Photodeluxe is not completely useless, but I cannot see spending money on it when there are other programs out there that work much better for the same price.
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Summary: adobe photo deluxe 4.0
Review: I got this product bundled with a digital camera (Fuji 2800).
The main problem that I have is with sizing the photos. Adobe
doesn't have a fix that can be downloaded, so they have come up with some sort of rigged fix. I still have 3.0 and I'm going to use it instead of [messing] around with this defective product.
Rating:
Summary: not great
Review: I have bought two adobe products, first 3.0. I liked it alot-easy and fun to use-UNTIL my computer kept crashing and when i took it in, the shop told me that the adobe had changed some windows settings and took out the program. All was well, so later that year bought adobe 4.0, thinking that perhaps the bugs were out! Wrong, same thing happened....I called adobe and they say that they had never heard of it before and were really quite rude. So now i will buy Picture it-hopefully microsoft will not disappoint me!
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Summary: I RATE THIS PRODUCT HORRIBLE PRINTING PROBLEMS-
Review: I THINK THIS SOFTWARE IS AWFUL. WHENEVER I OPENED A PICTURE, I WOULD CHANGE THE BACKGROUND AND USE A SAMPLE PIC FROM THIER FILE (PROVIDED BY THE COLLAGE SECTION) WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PRINT NO MATTER WHAT I DID THE PICTURE WOULD ONLY PRINT IN THUMBNAIL SIZE! I EVEN PURCHASED A JPEG COMPRESSER BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE PROBLEM, BUT I WAS WRONG. THIS IS THE SECOND VERSION OF ADOBE HOME DELUXE I HAVE BOUGHT AND BOTH HAD PROBLEMS. I HAVE SPENT WELL OVER $100 ON 2 DIFFERENT VERSIONS AND WAITED ON THE SUPPORT LINE FOR OVER A HOUR (AND GOT NOTHING)SO NOW I AM STUCK WITH THIS CRAP THAT IS DEFECTIVE AND ADOBE CAN'T DO NOTHING FOR ME. AT THIS POINT I AM VERY UNSATISFIED WITH WITH THIER PRODUCTS, I NEVER BUY THIER STUFF AGAIN!
Rating: 
Summary: Slightly Complex
Review: I'm not giving up yet, but I find this program complex. I am new to the world of photo-art and this looks user-friendly, but I don't think it is. And, I'm no "dummy" when it comes to figuring out software. I'm impressed by the possibilities of this software, however.
Rating:
Summary: Slightly Complex
Review: I'm not giving up yet, but I find this program complex. I am new to the world of photo-art and this looks user-friendly, but I don't think it is. And, I'm no "dummy" when it comes to figuring out software. I'm impressed by the possibilities of this software, however.
Rating: 
Summary: So-So
Review: Let me begin by saying that I've only been using Photo Deluxe for a couple weeks, but I'm probably being generous with the 4-star rating. The fourth star was mainly for the free web-posting capability and Adobe's reputation. As general use goes, I guess I'd have to give it a three. First off, as with prior versions, the step-by-step progression through everything makes me crazy! I had hoped that Adobe would have abandoned this for the new version. I'm not wild about having to go through all the proceeding steps to get to the one I want. Also, I don't care for the way this program sets up printing, and don't make more than one mistake without saving because there's only one level of undo, so if you really screw up, you have to start over from the beginning or your last save point. And then when you want to "save as" you get to choose the Adobe PDD format...period, unless you save for e-mail or the web then you get to choose JPEG and a couple others. But try to open an Adobe PDD format in another editing program and you'll more than likely find that you can't do it. In it's favor, there's a lot of neat tools here and it's fairly easy to use. There's lots of "cute" stuff like the clip art and the seasonal add-ons that the program automatically notifies you of so you can put the CD in and load it if you're into that sort of stuff. I've spent an enormous amount of time experimenting with different editing programs over the last few months looking for a decent one under $100 just for general purpose use. I do photography professionally and I use Photoshop 5.5, but that's another league. This is all opinion, but for ease of use, Microsoft Picture It gets my vote especially when it's used along with Microsoft Home Publisher 2000. But for about twenty bucks more than Photo Deluxe 4.0 there's Ulead Photo Impact 5.0. This is a great program! There's up to 99 levels of undo and great tools and palletts. I use this one extensively. And the really good web tools are on Photo Suite III. As for Photo Deluxe 4.0, it's an ok program, but if you're just beginning to get into digital imaging, I believe Picture It is the better bet, and if you want more for not much more, go with Photo Impact 5.0. All in all, I'm really dissappointed in Photo Deluxe 4.0.
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Summary: terrible
Review: run away, don't walk. i've nothing but problems w/ the prod. uses incredible amount of virtual memory/swap space. appear to have memory leak that causes it to get slower and slower over time in one session. always convert pic to its proprietary .pdd format. it's just pathetic. it's a shame Adobe makes this kind of crap. run away...
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Summary: 3 big problems for me
Review: The program stores pictures in a proprietary format (*.pdd). It can take JPEG (and many other file formats) as input, but then saves in the photodeluxe format, which was 20X larger than JPEG format. Also this makes sharing pictures harder and uploading to a website harder. There was an export option to JPEG but I believe this was recompressing the picture, which can not be good for image quality. Also could not change where the program wanted to store pictures. I want to put pictures in a subfolder under my documents so I can do easier backups. But Photodeluxe doesn't have an option (that I could find) for using a directory other than the default of the program directory. Finally, the tools provided get to be a little tedious. The steps you have to go through for using a tool (e.g. redeye removal) are on several tabs of a dialog, so you have many extra clicks to get between tabs.
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