User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Great addition to my photo workby - April 21, 2004
Pros: Jasc must have worked out the bugs because creation of a VCD worked great for me. Plays slideshow on my DVD player. Easy to enhance photos manually or with wizard
Cons: Can only put one song for background music unless multiples are merged first into one file.
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User Rating: 2.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Album is good, but VCD part is awfulby - April 11, 2004
Pros: Clear, organized look the way I like.
Cons: When talking about the creating Video CD, My 3 years old OnDVD is much flexible than Photo Album. First, it can't have multiple music, audio clips. One music per album, it can't adjust the slide show to meet the end of music. The music loops until slide
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User Rating: 1.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
I'm very dissapointedby - February 8, 2004
Pros: Very well organized
Cons: I've been trying to get it fixed since January and no one seems to care that I paid for it and can't use it anymore. I keep geting a can't open data base error that no one seems to give a crap about trying to help me fix.
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User Rating: 3.0 stars
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VCD does not work!by - January 20, 2004
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Very disappointed to see that the VCD does not work ... tried several times - none worked.
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User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Best photo program I've usedby - January 20, 2004
Pros: Love this program! Lots of features and easy to use.
Cons: The crop tool isn't that easy to use.
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User Rating: 3.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Good, but not quite thereby - January 15, 2004
Pros: Good interface and does a lot of neat things.
Cons: Doesn't work as documentation states - slide shows don't loop and some music files are corrupted. Experienced multiple crashes. CD burning not always consistent and many things not documented that should be. Spent many frustrating hours.
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User Rating: 4.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
excellent program for the priceby - January 14, 2004
Pros: wide selection of editing features.
Cons: learning curve. not for the fient of heart, but JASC is there for you whenever you need help
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User Rating: 3.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
The best if you are serious about getting all your photos oganised and on the computer.by - November 8, 2003
Pros: Smart way it allows you to organise larger numbers of photos and the way it uses the Windows folder structure for albums and sub-albums. Fabulous!
Cons: Would like to see the keywords better intergrated into the print outs, however this is small minor point.
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User Rating: 2.0 stars
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can't make CD slide showsby - August 10, 2003
Pros: Most features are easy to use
Cons: Followed instructions for making CD slide shows to share with others. I can't get this to work, and I can't get any help from the Jasc forums.
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User Rating: 1.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Does do anythingby - August 7, 2003
Pros: None
Cons: Wanted that a product that would let me archive items to CD with title/keyword info, etc. This is not it. Nothing more than a dressed up version of windows explorer...
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User Rating: 2.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Won't make VCDs with music.by - July 29, 2003
Pros: Good for organizing photos.
Cons: Tried and tried (with tech spt help) to make VCDs with music on win XP. Could not make it work!
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User Rating: 3.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Some good stuff, some not yet ready for prime time (wait for later release)by - July 6, 2003
Pros: I liked the interface, especially the method of modifying saturation, color balance, contrast, etc.
Cons: The "one click" red eye works only about half the time. Neither a really red eye shot nor a minimal red eye photo work. The "one click" at times generated a forehead covering hugh grey splotch rather than dealing with the targeted red eye. MY REAL DISS
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User Rating: 3.0 stars
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Easy to use but has quirksby - June 18, 2003
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Review: Can't read exif correctly from a canon. Says flash is on no matter what. Also, if you save in high quality but want to email out at less than 100k, must go to options and change file format to low quality. After emailing, better remember to go back to options and change back to high quality, Otherwise, the next time you edit, you will save it in low quality. ooops, there goes your picture as it is now saved at low quality and LOST!!
User Rating: 3.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
I was most interested in putting pictures on a CD. Burned 10 discs, none worked properly.by - June 18, 2003
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Review: Everything about the program up to creating a CD was great. After spending several hours reading the help notes, reviewing the procedures on the web site and 3 or 4 emails to their tech help, I learned that it just doesn't work. The last email from them said something to the effect that they are aware of problems burning CDs, check back at their web site for updates.
User Rating: 2.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
DVD/VCD show never works..by - June 18, 2003
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Review: I'm a pretty advanced user, both of computers/technology in general and with digital media. I tried many times to create a VCD to play in my DVD machine, and the feature never works! I try with my desktop.. I try with my brand new Sony VAIO (supposedly media friendly).. I'm just burning useless CD. Even when I try to do a "no frills" VCD of just a few pics, it doesn't work. I figure if *I* can't get it to work, how is the rest of the bell curve of non-advanced users supposed to? The other features (outside the VCD feature) seem comparable to other software packages... besides, if you're decent with file organization, do you really need all that?
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Great for organizing photosby - June 18, 2003
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Review: I have used it since it was released as a trial version in March. Another good program from Jasc.
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Great Intuitive Productby - June 18, 2003
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Review: For me, Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 4.0 wins hands down over Adobe Photoshop album (I'm using both). Once caveat: I'm also using Adobe Photoshop Elements for editing all my digital photos, so I don't use the photo editing features in Paint Shop Photo Album 4.0. But, I am delighted with the ease, simplisity and breath of the photo organization and photo sharing features in Paint Shop Photo Album. I was originally using Adobe Photoshop Album but I found that it would not always handle my larger images 25MB to 50MB, and for some reason the thumbnail images were completely distorted with contrast. I'm glad a discovered Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album.
User Rating: 1.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
ACDSee, although older, beats this one hands-downby - May 1, 2003
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Review: ACDSee needs a bit of attention in the classification area to make it easier, but it beats Paint Shop Photo Album as well as Adobe Photo Album hands down when it comes to performance when scrolling through images. In Paint Shop Photo Album one can only scroll through a series of images in full screen mode by using the slow clunky "slide show" mode. Browsing through the Adobe user's forum, it is clear that this is also very slow in Adobe Photo Album. A MAJOR gap in Paint Shop Photo Album is the lack of a calendar view of one's images, something that is handled excellently by ACDSee. Given these gaps, I am amazed that this application has been given an Editor's Choice rating.
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Two Thumbs UP!by - April 26, 2003
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Review: Very straightforward, ease of useage, excellent assignment to folders and file names or renaming files or folders with ease of copying or moving folders and/or files. More choices with selection of photo quality with "more...", "current" or "less..." options. This may slow down a bit but you have more choices to select the right picture. Ideal for beginners or not too serious photographers. When qualities matter I think Pro 7 is better to use for photo enhancement. Captioning of text with ease of coloring of text is very good except for trying to place the caption at the bottommost of the photo or lack of background coloring to offset text color on multi-colors on photo. I would recommend Pro 7 for better texting quality with controlled background color for ease of reading. Panorama works very well (beyond my expectation with its ease of putting together five separate shots into an awesome panorama). For someone like me I think Paint Shop Photo Album is a breeze and well-worth the purchase. At least I know it is not as frustrating an experience as I had with Adobe PhotoShop.
User Rating: 3.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
I don't care for Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 4.by - April 24, 2003
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Review: Photo Album 4 is very easy to use, but disappointing. I was interested in the image enhancements tools. It has an easy instant fix - but didn't do much. Further enhancement are easy but, not practical. Red eye fix is poor, but may work adequately, sometimes. I would not recommend this program. I compared it with Paint Shop Pro 8 Beta which has a comprehensive one click fix with decent results. Additional manual enhancements are good. The red eye fix tool is excellent and easy. All my test images were finished better with PSP8. A good program for me, however there is a learning curve, and most aren't that fussy.
User Rating: 2.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Hung up several timesby - April 21, 2003
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Review: This program always hung up and caused me to have to reboot when I tried to make a photo cd.
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
You have to love itby - April 17, 2003
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Review: Very easy to use.....but not insultingly simple either. It teams beautifully with Paint Shop Pro: if you need a little more editing power on the details, like red eye, skin tone, working in layers, then instantly jump to PS Pro. But for speed sorting, cataloguing, searching and finding, with some straight forward cool editing this program is excellent. When I first got it I couldn't tear myself away! I ended up cataloguing everything and adding key search words in one evening!
User Rating: 3.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Their main interest is in your wallet.by - April 7, 2003
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Review: The program itself works well, except being sluggish. Stay with AfterShot PE. The $36 sudden upgrade to Photo Album for just a few extra features is not worth my money. Wait for a major upgrade after they work out the bugs and give us some more features. At this rate it could be next month.
User Rating: 3.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Those who designed it must use it!by - April 2, 2003
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Review: I just spent 3 hours after work getting a whole slew of photos arranged in albums and assigned keywords to each. Couldn't have been easier...the keyword interface is great, nice to be able to select a bunch of photos and get the same keywords assigned in one stroke. Then the great part of the program was its search feature. And, once you've searched you can even refine the keywords on the fly while in the search mode (hey Microsoft - do you think you could be soooo cool?) So, thats the good stuff. What's not so cool...well, sometimes the program took way to long moving photos between albums. I've got plenty of memory and a fast processor...something not quite right here but not unaccepable either. Overall, a great product!
User Rating: 3.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Cannot Printby - March 26, 2003
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Review: I like everything about the program, except that windows shuts it down everytime I try to print multiple pictures on the same page. Tech support has been unable to help. Since I don't know if this is only affecting me or other people I cannot recommend the product.
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Easy and efficientby - March 26, 2003
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Review: I love this package with two small reservations. Easy to learn, intuitive, nice mix of editing tools that operate efficiently and quickly. It is almost perfect. Two small reservatioins: red eye correction could better. Audio track handling controls could be better for the slide show area. But what is there is fine and recommended.
User Rating: 4.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Even my husband can use itby - March 24, 2003
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Review: As a long time user of Paint Shop Pro I immediately thought of JASC when my computer illiterate husband wanted to scan and catalogue all our photos and slides. Nevertheless I tried out other brands of software which were either too basic or unnecessarily bitsy and confusing for my poor hubby. PSPA was none of this, it didn't pretend to have all the functionality of PSP but on the other hand you could edit and catalogue your photos fully with ease and what is more my husband took to it immediately, he even understood it (that's a first). So now while I play around creating masterpieces in PSP hubby can cheerfully organise, tidy and catalogue in PSPA.
User Rating: 1.5 stars
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Tried the beta, sticking to Adobeby - March 23, 2003
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Review: For a consumer-level product, first impressions are key. I was able to accomplish more, quicker in PhotoShop Album than in the JASC product. I agree that there is a more comprehensive feature set in PhotoAlbum, but adobe is known for strides in post 1.0 releases, and I'd rather be set up with my catalog in one product and maintain it than have to switch solutions and start from scratch. PhotoShop Album 1.0 is good. 2.0 will be great. Stick with Adobe.
User Rating: 5.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Great product for small priceby - March 23, 2003
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Review: I especially love the batch functions (rename, quick fix, save as, etc.).
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Unbeatable for its intended purpose.by - March 20, 2003
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Review: I have been using this program since its inception years ago as ImageExpert by Sierra Imaging. It is now in at least its 5th iteration, the last two having come since its purchase by Jasc. Sierra gets credit for the basic layout and useablility and Jasc for continuting to develop the image editing features. It ain't Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, it ain't meant to be, and I hope Jasc doesn't try to make it all things at the expense of the time-proven features. If you want a totally full-featured and complex image editing program, buy it but quit whining about what this one doesn't do! In my opinion, what it DOES do better -- and quicker -- than any other is: 1. Organize, name, and move pictures among albums, 2. Provide a superior and very flexible print layout, and 3. Offer a crop feature that is easy to use, maintains aspect ratios, and provides a range of fixed crop sizes as well as freehand crop. The image editing features are improving -- most notably with the multi-level undo in the latest version. It's at the point where a first-time digital picture user could get along with only this program until he or she wants more arcane editing functions. Uncluttered and gimmick-free interface that doesn't insult your intelligence with all sorts of cutesy "tools." Comes from a Company that freely shares beta versions and lets you take potshots and gives you answers. Lots of good info and support on their website. Downloaded trial versions are full and limited only by time. Prompt shipping. One Fatal Corporate Flaw: I'll have to agree with other comments that Jasc thumbs their nose at you with their stingy upgrade policy. I got so excited about AfterShot in Mid-December of 2002 that I purchased two boxed copies (one for a gift) and talked two other people into purchasing them. The next version was released less than three months later, and it seems to me that the upgrade should have been free plus postage and maybe ten bucks or so. In spite of the fact that I am generally quite proper on the issue of copywrited software, you can bet that those I bought for and encouraged to buy will have a copy of my PhotoAlbum disc. I'll be too embarassed to tell them that they've got to now lay out another $36 ("Upgrade" price + shipping) to get the latest version.
User Rating: 3.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Not as good as ACDSeeby - March 19, 2003
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Review: While the image manipulation in the program is better, for file management (what the program is actually supposed to do) it's not as good as ACDSee. It's Albums are little more than new folders it references, and it doesn't offer as wide an array when it comes to catalogueing photos. Plus it doesn't support as many file types.
User Rating: 3.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Nuts to their Customersby - March 19, 2003
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Review: I purchased the previous version less than 90 days ago and now JASC wants another $30 to upgrade to 4. This lack of upgrade protection for recent purchasers is very unimpressive. I spoke with them about this and was essentially told tough luck. OK Jasc, but don't wait around for any more of my nickels.
User Rating: 4.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Best of the Bunch for Meby - March 14, 2003
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Review: I checked out Adobe, Picassa, ThumbsPlus, CompuPic, and Jasc and found Photo Album to win the feature set / price / usability comparison.
User Rating: 2.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
JASC is ripping off their customers!by - March 13, 2003
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Review: I bought Jasc After Shot Premium Edition in December 02(delivered in January), release 1.01. Now if I want a bug fix or a upgrade I have to buy Photo Album 4.0 which replaces ASPE. They offered a 'special price' of $30, after I had paid $30 less than 90 days ago. So now I will have been charged $60 for a product that lists for $49! Don't trust JASC, buy Adobe!!!!
User Rating: 4.5 stars
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Paint Shop Pro and Media Center rolled into oneby - March 13, 2003
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Review: I was sceptable about getting this product at first but after using the trial for a while I was convinced. A couple things not mentioned in the review were the Web publishing and VCD creation abilities.
User Rating: 4.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Great Program. Better that Photoshop Album 1.0!by - March 12, 2003
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Review: I have both programs (PSA 1.0 and PSPA 4.0) but I only use Paint Shop Photo Album 4! Why? 1) Tags or keywords?: In Photoshop Album you can create just a very limited amount of nested tags, example: Places/US/Ohio and that's it!, you cannot create any more subtags below Ohio. On the other hand in PSPA you can go Places/US/Ohio/Cleveland/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame/Beatles etc etc, nesting multiple keywords to better organize your photos. 2)In Photoshop Album you move your photos to a new folder or to another disk in you computer, or you delete a photo, and you loose the connection between the real photo and the virtual photo in the Photo Well and then you have to reconnect both (what a pain!),on the other hand in PSPA you can move photos to different folders (albums)and you always keep your keywords associated with your photos and no need to reconnect or associate anything. What you see it's what you get!, there is nothing virtual, no broken links and no missing photos. 3)E-mail: In Photoshop Album you need to set up a new Address Book in order to e-mail photographs, in PSAP you just use your Outlook Express address book or the address book associated with the e-mail software you use. In Photoshop album you cannot even import your address into its Contact List (you can use vCards but that's too slow and cumbersome when you have hundreds of addresses) 4) Basic Photo Editing: The editing features in Photoshop Album are sooooo sloooooowwwwwww!!! and that's with 758 Mb of RAM and a P4 2.6 MHz processor in my computer. On the contrary I find PSPA photo editing to be really fast and efficient. I agree that the Calendar View and the time Line are nice and useful features in Photoshop Album, and it would be nice if Jasc could implement something similar in PSPA 2 but right now for organizing, editing and sharing my photos I find PSPA a better product than Photoshop Album. I absolutely recommend this program to beginners and intermediate users.
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Quick Fix is Fabulousby - March 10, 2003
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Review: Photo Album's Quick Fix tool is worth the price of admission alone. The panorama is pretty cool too. But I like making slide shows with my favorite MP3s most of all. I burn the slide shows to CD and give them as gifts. People love them. Paint Shop Photo Album is by far the best digital camera software out there.
User Rating: 4.5 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Love panoramas and batch namingby - March 10, 2003
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Review: Makes stitching a panorama a piece of cake! I love the options and size variations. Plus I don't have to deal with DSC00174 file names ever again! I've already renamed all my old usesless file names. Worth the $$ already!
User Rating: 4.0 stars
out of 43 user reviews
Love the batch tools!by - March 10, 2003
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Review: I love this product! My camera takes pictures with a blue cast, and I love that I can apply the Quick Fix tool to all of the pictures at once, and then rename them too. Quick Fix is awesome! Try out thinify...who needs to diet now?
User Rating: 4.5 stars
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Great digital camera software!by - March 9, 2003
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Review: I tried this product and found it very easy to use. It connected to my camera with no problems. It does a great job on editing - I love the Quick Fix. It's so easy. The printing templates have saved me a lot of photo paper already.
User Rating: 1.5 stars
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How come this is better than Photoshop Photo album!!by - March 8, 2003
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Review: Ahh, i always trusted Cnet, but this time, NO. How come they rated this better than photoshop album!!! give one feature that is better!?
User Rating: 2.5 stars
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Wait for the patches to be developed.by - March 8, 2003
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Review: Great interface and easy to learn but still shouldn't have been released just yet. Can't open *.png files and if your image file is large, then the program freezes, thus forcing a shutdown. When the programers devise a fix, then buy.
User Rating: 1.5 stars
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Pass on this piece of junkby - March 7, 2003
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Review: I just need a basic image editor that does a good job with red-eye reduction, and based on the CNET review, I decided to give this program a shot. Well, I don't think the reviewer knows what the word "aplomb" means. The red-eye reduction feature on this program blows. It turns the brightest part of the subject's red eye a smoky gray, leaving the rest red. If you don't zoom in on the image just right, the "one-click correction" red-eye cross-hairs won't work right, since the size of the cross-hairs is not adjustable. It doesn't get rid of all the red either. If the subject's eye is only slightly red, the one-click tool doesn't work well at all. Want to use the red-eye brush? Watch how the eye is now painted black. Oh yeah and the interface is clunky too. Next!
The good: Well-organized interface; offers the largest range of effects; lets you make quick batch edits; includes neat Adjust wizard for comparing edits side by side.
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