Summary: Another Great Adobe Product
Comment: I also purchased this photo album together with Adobe elements 2.0. A nice software to get to make your not so great photos look terrific.again this is great if you are a beginner or experienced web designer.
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Summary: Not that great!
Comment: I am disapointed with Adobe Photoshop Album. The quality of the photos I print using Microsoft Picture It! is much better. The colors print better with Picture It! also.
I also found the Help with Photoshop Album to be lacking. I'm searching for a better program.
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Summary: Not Ready for Prime Time
Comment: After searching for software that would display and organize my digital photos I purchased Adobe Photoshop Album. Big mistake! While the intended functionality of the software is perfect for my needs, the Adobe implementation is very unreliable. I'm not able to view a slide show without my computer (Windows 98SE) locking up. Installed on a new computer with Windows XP and now have an error message that displays on every boot up. None of the support has been helpful, including the laborious "debug the database yourself using Microsoft Access" advice I received and was able to do but to no avail. After spending several hours trying everything including Adobe's version "upgrades" I give up.
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Summary: Liking this more and more everyday
Comment: My buddy Renato turned me on to Adobe Photoshop Album. At first I wasn't too impressed, but the more I used it the more I started liking it. As far as a way to catalog photos it works really well and is easy to use. However, it remains to be seen if it's really any better than just managing folders. The real benefits are what you can do with your photos once you import them into the catalog. For starters the Fix Photo options are better than I expected. The single click red eye removal works great, the ability to adjust lighting, brightness/contrast and color saturation are all big pluses. You can give color photos a black and white effect very easily and can enhance dull photos by adjusting the sharpness. All in all the fix photos options get a thumbs up.
Next up are the all the cool things you can do with the Creations menu option. The coolest thing for me is the Web Photo Gallery. I post a lot of pictures to the web and this makes it so much easier than having to manually create the html. Thumbnails are automatically created and you can choose your design from a variety of stock templates (the ability to create custom templates would have been nice). The one drawback to the Web Gallery is there seems to be no way to share resources across galleries. If you want to create 2 galleries and use the same template you cannot specify the same directory to put the GIFs and JPGs. So that means you have to store multiple versions of the same files on your web server. The good part is that the files take up a relatively small amount of space (but if disk space is an issue this doesn't help).
You can create slide shows that offer a nice alternative to the slideshow capability in Windows XP. The 3D gallery with its mood music is really cool, but the pictures are not a clear as when you view the in the catalog. You can create calendars and all kinds of other happy hoo-haw. Adobe Photoshop Album is definitely a fun product to play with and is worth the few sheckles it costs you.
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Summary: Try before buying
Comment: I purchased Photoshop Album 1.0.50 for the ease of using drag and drop tags and tagging many images at once. Unfortunately PSA does not allow me to browse on my Win2000 Pro (SP4) based system. Consequently I can't search for image files or catalogs, nor can I save a catalog to other folders or drives. If you are considering this product, you should be aware that it is still fairly buggy. Trying out the demo version from Adobe might be informative, although it is a huge file (~126 Mb).