Entered CNET Catalog: 07/13/2005
SKU: S83-00692
Manufacturer: Microsoft Corp.
Manufacturer description
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 brings together all the sophisticated tools you need to organize, enhance, create, and share your digital photos. Digital Image Suite offers powerful tools that are intuitive and easy to use no matter what your skill level. It's the complete photo solution that grows with you.CNET editors' review
- Editors' Choice: No
- Reviewed on: 09/20/2005
Microsoft added quite a few new features to the 2006 version, including better organizing and editing tools and camera raw file support. Plus, the full-featured editor gained a black-and-white photo effect for colorizing, plus improved panoramic stitching with better control over the finished product. It may be a little pricey at $99, and it requires a gluttonous 400MB of disk space, but if you have mountains of photos that need organization and don't want to puzzle through jargon-filled manuals, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 is an excellent investment.
User opinions
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User Rating: 
5/10
Product is misrepresented. Contary to advertising on box, must be running 'xp'.
Pros: Many good edit features.
Cons: Microsoft Photo Story requires Microsoft XP to run.
User Rating: 
9/10
Simply Simple
Pros: Pretty good Photoshop alternative
Cons: not for the advanced
Gr8 product, i'd recommend this for beginners
User Rating: 
4/10
Very basic
Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Not as good as basic photo editing software
User Rating: 9/10
Probably the best for the money
Pros: Cost, auto functions, speed, organization of pictures
Cons: You have to read the book.
When the house catches fire and burns down, what do people greive for and can never get back no matter the cost? Their photos. That's how much mine mean to me.
I bought this based on functions, ease of use, and cost. I've got old software, but I've got XP Media Center and there were too many freezes and reboots. I got it for $80, but I have a $30 rebate coupon.
It's really easy to use after you start to read the 276 page manual and understand what the icons do. There are tips on better ways to take pictures, scanning pictures, transfer pictures, and of couse, how to edit them to make them look better.
The software package uses 2 CDs and takes about 20 minutes for a full download which includes clipart, borders, stamps, frames, mats, etc.
I've used Photoshop, PhotoEssentials, and PhotoDeluxe. This is the easiest and most creative package I've used so far. I am amazed at how accurate the auto-correct functions. There's even one for cell phone pictures. Most of my pictures don't need any other corrections after using these. It's easy to organize and find pictures with ratings, tags, and folders. IT also has an archive reminder so I don't forget to save my pictures on CD. I take copies of these CDs to my work place for safe keeping. This is money well spent to touch-up, restore, archive, and print my pictures so easily.
When the house catches fire and burns down, what do people greive for and can never get back no matter the cost? Their photos. That's how much mine mean to me.
I bought this based on functions, ease of use, and cost. I've got old software, but I've got XP Media Center and there were too many freezes and reboots. I got it for $80, but I have a $30 rebate coupon.
It's really easy to use after you start to read the 276 page manual and understand what the icons do. There are tips on better ways to take pictures, scanning pictures, transfer pictures, and of couse, how to edit them to make them look better.
The software package uses 2 CDs and takes about 20 minutes for a full download which includes clipart, borders, stamps, frames, mats, etc.
I've used Photoshop, PhotoEssentials, and PhotoDeluxe. This is the easiest and most creative package I've used so far. I am amazed at how accurate the auto-correct functions. There's even one for cell phone pictures. Most of my pictures don't need any other corrections after using these. It's easy to organize and find pictures with ratings, tags, and folders. IT also has an archive reminder so I don't forget to save my pictures on CD. I take copies of these CDs to my work place for safe keeping. This is money well spent to touch-up, restore, archive, and print my pictures so easily.
User Rating: 9/10
For the beginner and the Pro who needs to be efficient
Pros: Simplicity
Cons: Needs a dual window for comparisons
User Rating: 
8/10
easy to use with good results
Pros: Easy even for the novice, auto fixes work fine
Cons: Not a lot of special projects with it.
User Rating: 9/10
The BEST Photoshop Alternative on the market!
Pros: Simple to use, easy to imprort from multiple sources, EXTREMELY stable, can handle harger files with ease, and it's also very cheap for the features included
Cons: There is no trial version
This program comes with a TON of upper level digital editing tools that even the most die-hard Photoshoper will appreciate. You can do everything from removing red eye, to applying filters, cropping, resizing, organizing, applying filters, and a whole host of other options.
I personally actually went out and purchased this program on my own even though I already have access to Photoshop CS2 through work.
Bottom Line: This is a great product that is worthy of more respect than the low price asks for.
User Rating: 9/10
Easy to Learn and Use
Pros: Easy to Use and Learn
Cons: Slow Openning
User Rating: 4/10
A very slow process
Pros: Fades available in vcd
Cons: No hand held manual.
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