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Summary: Small Program for Small Images
Review: Adobe dominates the market for computer graphics software for professionals, each loaded with features and each at a premium price. Nearly anybody in the business willingly plunks [a lot of money] for programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and others that make our lives more productive. Perhaps because it is a first version, ALBUM doesn't live up to Adobe's tradition; it is a simple program designed for simple problems and small, simple graphics, and has limitations that should have easily been resolved in the beta texting phase.I run a stock photo business and need to track thousands of images. ALBUM starts to do this, but with some maddening features and limitations. For starters, once you import images into the program, it displays them very nicely -- but instead of file names (an essential for a program like this), it displays the file creation time and date! If you highlight one image, its file name and size is visible in an adjacent panel, but it is not shown next to the thumbnail where you need it. And if you produce big image files, ALBUM chokes on the 25mb-plus files that are common with graphics professionals. For those of us who sometimes work with 50mb and larger files produced by Photoshop, the inability of ALBUM to handle such files seems odd. An little-known and inexpensive program (and I have no financial interest in this company) is Thumbs Plus from Cerious Software. Thumbs will handle any file size or type. It doesn't do CDs or picture packages and doesn't have such a handsome interface, but shows any available information for each individual file. ALBUM seems clearly designed for an amature photographer audience, and serves this market well enough -- the photo package is nice, and the ability to burn CDs and DVDs directly is nice, too. If you keep your file sizes and expectations small, ALBUM is worth its small price... And if Adobe gets around to bringing this program up to PHOTOSHOP standards, I would be ready to pay PHOTOSHOP prices for it. Documentation is skimpy and maybe I missed something in the options panel, but my first use of this promising program was a disappointment. There's a need for a full-featured, professional-grade, image management program, and (despite its limitations) I guess Thumbs Plus will have to do for now.
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Summary: Missing Key Features
Review: Although this product might be of use to the very casual photographer with a small number of images to manage, it lacks two critical features that any one with more than a few-hundred locally stored photos will sorely miss: (1) no support for networked files without local caching and (2) no support for exporting catalog data. The lack of the first feature means that a local copy is made of each image you wish to index in Photoshop Album (not a good thing if you have several thousand images stored on a network!) and the lack of the second means that all of your data is trapped in Photoshop Album and is unavailable for use in other applications. Wait for version 2.0 or look elsewhere.
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Summary: PSA 4 LIFE
Review: Wow. This product gave me the biggest [thrill] alive. Talk about an excellent program for anyone with a digital camera. Cudos Adobe, keep up the good work!
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Summary: BEST ADOBE PRODUCT EVER
Review: Buy it. Try it. Love it. Pull those pictures out from the shoebox - this program will revolutionize the sharing, organizing, and reminiscing of your photos. If you own a computer, you should own this product. Album has made me an Adobe evangelist.
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Summary: I love this Program
Review: I have been using adobe products for years now, I really like the approach in this program. I used to sort my photos by folders. Which was time consuming, now I tag them with keywords. I had always run into problems with my naming because I would use such naming routines as xmas02trip.jpg, 2xmas02trip.jpg and so on, now I can tag each photo with the same name. It's great and I don't have to keep renaming a, b, c or with numbers. The time line function is really cool also, all I have to know is the date or even near the date I took the photo to be able to find it. I don't have the need for the touch up tools because I use another program for that, so I can't really tell you how that works. It's basically a great cataloger program. Which gives you a different approach to sorting not just your photos but also video. Another thing I really love about it is you can print multiple photos on one sheet of photo paper without wasting paper. So you can fill up a whole sheet and cut individual photos out. If you are a organizing nut like me, you'll love it too.
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Summary: The next level in user interface design
Review: I had the fortune of trying this product while it was still in beta. And even at that early stage, I found it to be the most intelligent, intuitive, easy-to-use yet efficient program I had tried in any area of computing, not just digital imaging. Its functionality was of course exceptional, in keeping with Adobe's unparalleled tradition of technological innovation and envelope-pushing. But it is clear, with this product, that Adobe has made a new committment: to exceptional user interface design. Not only was is it easy to find and use the functions that I knew were there, but whenver there was a function that I said "wouldn't it be great if it had _____", I would look where it would make sense for it to be, and there it was! Within five minutes I felt as though I'd been using the product all my life. This product is a true revolution in digital imaging, as well as ease- and intelligence-of-use. This is a paradigm-defining product which will determine how both regular people and professionals store and use their digital images for many years to come.
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Summary: Great User Interface
Review: I've tried a few of the other digital picture organization programs, and I must say this is the best one so far. I really like being able to easily send my photos to friends. It also has great integration with online ordering. And it fits in great with other adobe products, fixing up your digital images with photoshop, and sharing with pdf. And if you don't have photoshop, there is basic image fix up, like taking out red eyes, built in. But the best part of album is how easy it is to use. Everything just makes perfect sense, I got up and running using advanced options without even using the help buttons. It's definitely the easiest to use digital picture organizer out there.
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Summary: No support on Adobe
Review: I am very displeased that when you pay for a program and you receive a 10 page book on how to use it and have a questions that Adobe wants to charge you 40.00 to answer a question. I thought I had a great program to use for our church pictures, but I was mistaken. Money down the drain! I called and they said that is there policy. They will be glad to answer installation problems, but not on how to use their product.
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Summary: Delivers The Basics of Photo Management
Review: Album delivers all of the basic features you would expect from such a product with some minor weaknesses and some nice surprises. The Fix function is a bit weak, even compared to some free programs. Specifically, the lighten/darken feature is a bit weak and AutoFix does not seem to make any significant improvements to photos. The backup feature is very easy to use but it requires a new CD each time, even if you are doing incremental backups and only bakcup a small number of files. This is wasteful and is a weakness. The photo Move and Rename features also add a lot of value and work well.
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Summary: Avoid This Product
Review: I would advise anyone considering buying Adobe Photoshop Album to visit Adobe's website. A look at the forum section will give you an idea of the MANY problems users are having trying to make this buggy software work properly.
I installed the Starter Edition to see if I wanted to buy the full program later. My experience with Starter Edition was very positive. The full version is another story altogether. It simply won't install on my computer. The program claims to support WIN98 SE, but during installation I get a message telling me it won't support my operating system, which is, you guessed it, Windows 98 Second Edition.
Another reviewer here mentioned that he had the same trouble and had to do an exhaustive search through the Adobe user forums to find a solution. Its pretty sad when a software comany's user base has to assist each other to use one of its products.
Adobe has a good reputation, but this clunker is not up to their usual standard. Avoid it!
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