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Summary: Priced Right
Review: I'm not crazy about paying for music or paint tools for retouching my photos and affordable photo viewer/organizer was all I was looking for. Since my digital camera's software sucks I was considering Jasc Paint Shop because is not expensive... I think this software is priced right.
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Summary: Beware of their REBATES
Review: Photo Album 4 seems to be a good value. It lets me see my individual images and how they relate to the rest of my collection. I can finally see the forest and the trees of my image collection. Moving images around is a snap. Organizing them with keywords is really cool. And the Titles and Descriptions that move around with the pictures make website building all the easier. Digital image software focusing on editing images as its primary thing just doesn't have the retrieval and organizational features Photo Album has. Although it can be argued Photo Album is short on editing features, I didn't buy it as an editor. I bought it to organize my digital images and quickly create websites from this organized repositiory. Photo Album seems to be about letting you, your family, and friends more easily enjoy your digital image collection. I really have had more fun with my images since I downloaded and installed it; especially old images I have rediscovered on my harddrive. I will buy this at the end of my evaluation.
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Summary: I can now organize and retrieve my photos.
Review: Photo Album 4 seems to be a good value. It lets me see my individual images and how they relate to the rest of my collection. I can finally see the forest and the trees of my image collection. Moving images around is a snap. Organizing them with keywords is really cool. And the Titles and Descriptions that move around with the pictures make website building all the easier. Digital image software focusing on editing images as its primary thing just doesn't have the retrieval and organizational features Photo Album has. Although it can be argued Photo Album is short on editing features, I didn't buy it as an editor. I bought it to organize my digital images and quickly create websites from this organized repositiory. Photo Album seems to be about letting you, your family, and friends more easily enjoy your digital image collection. I really have had more fun with my images since I downloaded and installed it; especially old images I have rediscovered on my harddrive. I will buy this at the end of my evaluation.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointed
Review: Product support for this software is non-existent. Purchased Photo Album 4 specifically to record slide shows with audio onto CD's. It has never worked. I have e-mailed JASC technical support numerous times over the last several weeks without a reply. Very frustrating.
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Summary: Just the thing
Review: PS Photo Album 4 is a quick and easy way to take control of your digital pictures. Lots of great features, my favorites: 1) Selecting a bunch of pictures and telling the software to email them. It automatically resizes them down to a (configurable) small, manageable size and places them in an email as attachments. A necessity when you have multi-megalpixel image files. 2) Fast and easy red eye correction. 3) Very neat, interactive photo-touchup wizard for quick photo-enhancements. 4) If I need finer control over the images, it is fairly well integrated with Paint Shop Pro (if you happen to own it as well). 5) Being able to label pictures and then search through all your pictures by keywords. 6) The ability to archive photo albums onto CD-R and still have the software keep track of them. Overall a very effective and convenient program. You can get a 30 day trial from the Jasc website before making the plunge.
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Summary: Not a happy customer
Review: This is my first experience into digital cameras and photo software. I found the enhancing tools to be dissappointing. One of the big things I was looking forward to doing is making a CD that would be viewable on a DVD player. This did not work in any CD or DVD player I could find so I took the CD into my local Circuit City store. The sales person said that he had NO CD or DVD player in the store that could handle the VCD format that this software uses. This really made me happy! He said that the format is no longer recognized. Maybe the guy does not know what he is talking about!? Be sure your player can handle the DVD format before you raise your expectation levels or even buy this product.
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Summary: Not a happy customer
Review: This is my first experience into digital cameras and photo software. I found the enhancing tools to be dissappointing. One of the big things I was looking forward to doing is making a CD that would be viewable on a DVD player. This did not work in any CD or DVD player I could find so I took the CD into my local Circuit City store. The sales person said that he had NO CD or DVD player in the store that could handle the VCD format that this software uses. This really made me happy! He said that the format is no longer recognized. Maybe the guy does not know what he is talking about!? Be sure your player can handle the DVD format before you raise your expectation levels or even buy this product.
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Summary: trouble running
Review: This program worked fine on my computer (Win 2k pro) for about a month, and then i can't open it, i get a "An unamed file contains an invalid path" error message. Have done everything short of re-formatting my hard drive, which I probably won't do, easier to buy a competitor's product that will work...I've asked Jasc for support 2 months ago, and nothing has happened, and nothing posted on their web site as of 11/13/2003. Some of the batch functions that I purchased this product for got added to PSP 8. Now I see they are trying to sell PSP 8 and Photo album as a "suite." Go to www.jasc.com and read through the forums for this product (or any product, for that matter) before purchasing.
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Summary: Junk
Review: This software is a piece of junk. I thought it would be an improvement over Photoshop Album because of some of its additional features, but it turned out to be useless. I note that Adobe Photoshop Album has a new version now, so I'm going to order that and sail the Paint Shop Album CD into the ocean. Save your money. Don't buy it.
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