Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 4.0

Rating:
Summary: Not that bad.
Review: This is the first program I have of this type. My brother had the earlier version on his old computer, so I decided to get it for mine. I like it. I have been able to fix many pictures, including those I have scanned in from negatives. One key thing I do concerns the printing. I don't use Adobe Photo Delux. I export each picture to the JPEG format. I, then, use my printer program or another program to print, so I can print multiple images on a page or a single image. This helps control the size of the printout. I would like to see Adobe update V4.0 and fix some of the features and add new ones. I have had pretty good luck in repairing photos. Works for me.

Rating:
Summary: Not that bad.
Review: This is the first program I have of this type. My brother had the earlier version on his old computer, so I decided to get it for mine. I like it. I have been able to fix many pictures, including those I have scanned in from negatives. One key thing I do concerns the printing. I don't use Adobe Photo Delux. I export each picture to the JPEG format. I, then, use my printer program or another program to print, so I can print multiple images on a page or a single image. This helps control the size of the printout. I would like to see Adobe update V4.0 and fix some of the features and add new ones. I have had pretty good luck in repairing photos. Works for me.

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Summary: Bad News
Review: This product came bundled with my new scanner and I installed it 10 days ago on my 1.4 GHz PC, 512 MB RAM, running Windows 2000. At first the only problems I encountered were with slow image file opening, .pdd format as only option, and image file naming. Then attempts to launch the application on day 11 were met with errors messages related to the "scratch disk being full". I have 32 GB of available on the hard drive so this message is mystifying. So far I've downloaded online troubleshooting documentation, sent emails to customer support, called their toll-free and pay-as-you-go numbers for customer support -- all to no avail. Calls to their 900 number were either dropped or they couldn't find me or my product in their database. I've never had so many problems with photoprocessing application. My advice -- use something, anything else -- this product is bad news.

Rating:
Summary: Although it was free, I got less than I paid for
Review: This software came with my digital camera. ... One of the key aspects of digital photography is that it is probably the best way to preserve and easily distribute photo collections to posterity. Adobe's oddball proprietary format nullifies this. It produces large files that stand a more than even chance of being unreadable by software 10+ years down the road. Exporting to a .jpg does appear to recompress the image and strip off non-viewable information text that some programs (and cameras) append to the file that better describe the photo. I'll stick with any other photo editing software that uses native .jpg files. There are several better choices with just as many tools. Try Photosuite 4 with a rebate for example (almost free).

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Summary: download
Review: When downloading pictures it downloads them all to a open format in the program, then memory problem occurs, too many pictures open. I reloaded the 3.0 and it downloads them without opening them. I feel the earlier version was easier to use except for the .pdd issue as always.