Summary: PhotoShop Album Not Good Software
Comment: Adobe Photoshop Album is not worth the price. I would not buy it again. The primary reason is that, regardless of advertising and info on the box, one cannot make an acceptable quality VCD and, of course, no DVD quality disks. Even Adobe admits they do not support MPEG-2 or true MPEG-1 quality. The only value to the product is the ability to send slideshows(very limited editing)by creating a .pdf. Most receivers can then open and view your pictures. Do not buy version 1.0.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good as an editor, mediocre as organizer
Comment: Adobe is selling this as a way to organize your photos. For that purpose I found it to be somewhat mediocre and not that much better than just using Windows File System. In windows I put my photos in folders by year/event. I then rename the photos to have meaning. Photoshop Album will hide all this from you if you which I guess has value if you are uncomfortable with windows file system. It has more advanced features where you tag each picture with information (like who was in the picture) so you can easily go back and search for pictures, but it seems like a lot of work to me to actually use that stuff.
Also my camera (older Olympus Camedia C-3000) is not TWAIN compliant so the camera doesn't directly talk to Photoshop album. So I still need to use the software that came with the camera just to get the pictures onto the PC.
However, I like the editor in Photoshop Album. It is somewhat simpler than other editors I have tried. Also allows you to crop photos and maintain aspect ratio of standard prints (e.g., set it for 4x6). Pretty good for printing as well.
Finally I also picked up the program to be able to create VCD (Video CD - plays on most DVD players). The program did create a VCD that did work on my DVD player. However, the options for VCD creation are fairly limited. Also photo quality of VCD pictures displayed on TV is not that great (I think that is a TV/VCD limitatin not the fault of the program).
So if you want a fairly good editor that also has some organization capabilities this is probably a good pick. If you are really focused on organization I would keep looking.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a ok product if you don't have to bigge archive
Comment: This product is ok. But it's to limited if you want to maintain a lot of photo's If you have more then 300 photo's go look at imatch it's great and the price is good to.
Adobe photoshop album is just to limited.
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Summary: Adobe Photo Shop Album
Comment: Adobe Photo Shop Album sounds good and the features are basic but acceptable. The big problem is that it won't install on your computer without freezing. I have attempted to install the program on two different computers and both get the same results. It freezes at the registration area and that's it. I have searched the web and Adobe's site for fixes. Clearly, it's a widespread problem. Even Adobe's patch designed to fix the problem doesn't work. Their support site is filled with rhetoric as to why it probably is not their fault.
It's a shame that they (Adobe) would put a product on the market that will not work with ordinary computers and it's not like mine are from the stoneage....I have Windows XP, IE 6 and P3 with plenty of RAM. It seems like they are trying to rev up their "Paid Support" business.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
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Summary: Works Fine With Enough Memory
Comment: I recently purchased Photoshop Album and it works fine for me. The box recommends 256MB of RAM. I have 384MB and it runs smoothly (extra ram is such a cheap way to improve computer performance). I suspect those who have had so much trouble with this program have just 128MB of RAM, and that isn't enough. My CPU is a Pentium III at 450 MZ with Windows XP, and this works fine.