Summary: Not up to Adobe standards
Comment: I purchased the software to create slideshows viewable on the DVD player. The software worked as stated but the resolution on the slideshow was poor. There was not enough options for music; listening to the same song (mp3) over and over got boring. These two problems make is necessary for me to look for other software. Good features were timeline; ability to add captions and ability to add video clips. I hope Adobe comes up with a free upgrade for their existing customers. They certainly did NOT live up to quality of products we expect from Adobe.
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Summary: good idea - buggy
Comment: i think some of the features of this program are excellent. the tagging is a very easy and intuitive way to organize the photos. i have about 2000 images and i just blasted thru them... tagging/cross tagging every photo.
the problem is... it worked for a few times, and now it hangs everytime! and then i can't end it. i have to do a soft reboot using the power button. XP home (totally new install). i've updated the program w/ 1.01 (which, inexplicably changes the version number to 1.050) and it's still the same problem.
so, i can't recommend this program. wait for version 2.0.
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Summary: Greaaat product
Comment: Love this product. I can finally manage my digital camera pictures at ease. The best thing about this software is it's easy to use don't need to read the manual to use this.
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Summary: Buggiest Adobe application ever. Do not buy.
Comment: This is the worst piece of Adobe software ever. If the higher priced applications like Photoshop, etc. would be so bad, Adobe would not exist today. When I installed my copy, I could not even browse to files on my D: partition. Album could only recognize files on the C: partition. Unusable.
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Summary: Finally, an excellent way to manage my photos.
Comment: Flipping through the reviews of this program I've seen a lot of negative reviews so I was compelled to write a positive one detailing my experiences with it.
First of all, I've snapped a lot of photos with my digital camera, and I was always losing track of where I was placing them on my hard drive. Every time I took a trip or had a collection of photos, I'd download them from my camera into a separate folder on my hard drive. Soon I had poorly labeled folders of pictures all over my desktop and in various drives on my computer, it was so hard to keep track. With this software, I can dump all my photos into one folder and forget about renaming each photo file with a descriptive name because with Album, I can browse a catalog of detailed thumbnails of my photos extremely quickly and easily with no load up time. It's also sorted with a timeline by date so I can grab the timeline slider and view all pictures that were taken during a certain trip for instance. Not only that but it's got many tools that allow you quickly select a group of photos from your catalog and tag them with various descriptions like like "landscape" or "family" which then allows you quickly flip through relevant photos in the future.
Editing options are well thought out too, it provides all the easy cropping and red-eye tools etc. I need and saves both an unedited and edited version of my photos so I can go back to the original if need be.
Furthermore, the printing options are wonderful too. I can specify what size of prints I want, or even let photoshop create a bundle of sizes of a certain print or collection of prints (wallet, 8x10, 5x7) and send them to my photo printer. It even tries to save paper by intelligently cramming as many prints as possible onto a single 8x10 piece of paper. It also makes slideshows easily that can be sent to anyone else's computer, and also links to outlook express and makes it very easy to send vacation pictures etc. to others, even allowing you quickly adjust or cut down on the filesize of your pictures so they fit more easily into an email. Lastly, unlike other people's experiences, I've had absolutely no bugs with this software, which is what I would have expected from Adobe.
Overall, I've got Photoshop, and Photoshop elements, but for day to day use of my pictures including cataloging, editing, sorting, printing, and distributing my photos, I have repeatedly turned to Photoshop Album. I can't recommend it highly enough.