Review 5 of 8
Price Paid:
$40.00
from Fry's Electronics Summary:
Photoshop Album works perfectly as a means to organize massive amounts of information through an interface that makes sense. Cataloging information is as simple as grabbing images from any source - a camera, scanner or on your hard drive.
Individual images can be tagged by dragging any number of preset and user defined tags over the image. Additional information can be attached to image files by adding captions.
Although billed as an entry level product for the emerging digital imaging market, it does not quite meet those expectations. Although basic image enhancement tools are available, they are certainly no replacement for Photoshop Elements.
As a tool to publish images for the home user, expect only the basics with very little flexibility. It attempts to mimic the functionality of Apple's iPhoto, but is lacking in every sense of the word. As mentioned, it's a great way to organize information, but don't have your heart set on having the flexibility and excellent user interface of iPhoto for your Windows PC. iPhoto still reigns supreme.
Album also provides a way to publish web galleries, a reason I purchased it in addition to organizing photos. From my experience, stick to Elements or Photoshop. Adobe seems to have skimped on the bicubic resampling - the results I got yielded very disappointing scaled images. Strengths:
Great for organizing photos - very intuitive Weaknesses:
Everything not associated with organizing photos Similar Products Used:
ArcSoft Photobase
iView
PhotoRelay
Canon ZoomBrowser EX
Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Customer Service:
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