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Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe [Old Version]

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Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe [Old Version]

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It is where your photos live - you will love it.Paint Shop Photo Album is simply the easiest way to do more with your digital photos. Now you can organize fix share and protect photos with one easy-to-use tool. Finally the digital camera software you have been waiting for is here. Includes Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe PhotoRecovery Paint Shop Xtras - Photo Album Scrapbook Templates 250 Project Photos by Corbis and Avery Digital Starter Pack.* View & Organize Find photos in the blink of an eye With Photo Album you can choose how you want to view your photos with the click of a button. Then quickly organize your collection so you can find photos fast. The freedom Photo Album gives you is unlike any other program and since it is so intuitive it takes only a moment to get started. - Get your photos now Since Photo Album works with virtually any digital camera you can get your photos from your camera to your computer in two clicks without the hassle of other software. - View photos the way you want With Photo Album you can choose the way you view photos easily switching back and forth between four useful options: Favorite Folders Calendar Collections Keywords or All Folders. - Let Photo Album do the organizing for you With Photo Albums smart tools organizing your photo collection is not just easy -- it is fast.* Fix & Enhance Improve photos easily Everyone loves to see their photos improve right before their eyes. With Photo Album you can fix photos easily plus there is a ton of tools to enhance them. From transforming photos to black and white to creating a panorama you will be surprised by how easy it is. - Improve photos in an instant With three photo-fixing options Photo Album takes the guesswork out of improving photos. - Everything you need for perfect pictures From cropping to removing red eye one click fixes or more power you can get perfect pictures with little effort. - Have fun with your photos Whether you are adding a picture frame or ...

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Product Details

Package Length:	9.9 inches
Package Width:	7.8 inches
Package Height:	1.9 inches
Package Weight:	1.15 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 7 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

An easy way to do more with digital photos
Organize collection and find photos fast
Fix and enhance photos easily
Drag and drop to create impressive keepsakes
Back-up and protect photos on CD

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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145 of 155 found the following review helpful:

Basic, but most well-rounded. Aug 09, 2004 By H. Lam
Jasc's Photo Paint Shop Album (PPSA) Version 5.0.1 is a nice upgrade to version 4 that puts the program on equal or slightly better footing with ACDSystem's ACDSee version 6 and Adobe's PhotoShop Album (PSA) version 2. Version 5 introduces a prettier interface; adds a calendar-based organizational view, a bunch of creative project and print templates - for coffee books, CD/DVD labels, calendars, etc.; and some basic archival features. PPSA's strength is that it bundles together the most variety of features of any consumer-grade digital media library manager, and that makes Paint Shop Photo Album the most well-rounded choice for mainstream beginner and intermediate users new to digital image management.

With the addition of creative project templates, Photo Paint Shop Album 5 becomes a better choice than Adobe PhotoShop Album 2. The latter's crippling weakness is that it is unable to automatically detect and synchronize new or deleted photographs to and from its internal catalog database. Unlike ACDSee 6 and PhotoShow Deluxe 3, PPSA's creative projects are things users may print themselves. ACDSee and PhotoShow Deluxe simply supply links to websites (Snapfish, etc.) where users order and pay for their own creations.

Consumers should understand that given Photo Paint Shop Album's low price, competitor programs may exceed the depth of any particular module(s) in PPSA. For example, ACDSee has the better file-level manager. Simple Star's PhotoShow Deluxe 3 has the better slideshow module. With these other choices however, users may find themselves purchasing additional programs to match the breadth of Photo Paint Shop Album's functionality.

If there is a weakness to Photo Paint Shop Album, it is metadata. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but not always. Without aid, the casual viewer may not understand a picture's content or context. (E.g., When and where was this picture taken? What is this a picture of? Who are these people?) Even the photographer himself may not remember these things one or five years later. Metadata is the useful mnemonic device that stores this information.

Photo Paint Shop Album locks picture metadata (image title, description, and keyword category) inside a proprietary database instead of supporting the EXIF and IPTC metadata standards (which embed metadata inside the picture file). PPSA users therefore cannot easily share a complete memory with those who do not use Photo Paint Shop Album. Without accompanying metadata, an office party photograph (Office Holiday Party 2004: Roy and his wife Maya, Ciara and Laura. Unbeknownst to Maya, Ciara is Roy's workplace mistress.) quickly becomes just another picture. As digital photograph collections become mainstream, support for EXIF and IPTC metadata should become only more important, to provide a standard, seamless way to share, search for and organize images based on timestamp and picture caption content - among a user's chosen image manager, online photo-sharing service (such as Fotki.com), and family and friends (who may use something other than Photo Paint Shop Album). PPSA users who want to share picture metadata with other users must manually copy and paste it for each picture they want to share.

In Version 5, Paint Shop Photo Album's continued lack of EXIF and IPTC metadata support becomes a functional liability. Version 5's new Calendar View utilizes EXIF timestamp information to create its timeline-based organizational view of pictures, but ironically, the program lacks an EXIF editor. Users who want to scan and organize their shoeboxes of old photographs and film negatives, and those who order picture CD's along with their analog film developing orders cannot take full advantage of PPSA's Calendar View. PPSA sorts pictures lacking EXIF timestamps by the file system's Last Modified Date, because the program cannot timestamp the original date the photograph was taken. Fortunately, users can turn to freeware EXIF metadata editors to mitigate this issue, such as Exifer (http://www.exifer.friedemann.info).

Despite PPSA's letdown on EXIF and IPTC metadata support, most consumer-grade digital media library managers also still do poorly in metadata management, which sort of defeats the purpose of their existence. Of Paint Shop Photo Album's competitors, only ACDSee has EXIF metadata editing abilities, and therefore, a fully-functional Calendar View.

Jasc's Paint Shop Photo Album 5 is a well-rounded introduction to digital image library management. Curious users may quickly outgrow PPSA's rudimentary implementations of many features and look for more advanced software, but Paint Shop Photo Album 5 introduces people to more exciting possibilities of digital photography and digital image library management than its competitors.

33 of 33 found the following review helpful:

Easy to use, easy to organize, easy to back up Sep 13, 2004 By T. Williams
I was looking for a piece of software to help me manage my growing cache of digital photos. I looked at uLead, iMatch, IDImager, Adobe, and more. I chose Jasc's Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe. It is well designed, easy to use and does all I need.

- Organize by keyword, date, file folder

- Archive to CDs and access them (the software "remembers" where they are)

- Quickly do the most common photo enhancements (red eye, contrast, etc.)

- Fast loading of images

- Easy to pull the pictures off of my camera's CF card

They have a free trial at www.jasc.com, and I highly recommend it.

19 of 22 found the following review helpful:

Easy to use Oct 25, 2004 By Vince J. Filippelli
I currently use PSP8 at home and work and find it very strong so when I needed a photo program I turned to JASC. I had a project to do, pictures slideshow to music. While the image editing worked great, turning a group of pictures into a video slideshow didn't. Pictures were out of order which I had painstakenly put in a certain order and although I had created a video menu screen with music it failed to work in both my computer and home DVD player. If your instrested in video or DVD production I would look elsewhere.

14 of 16 found the following review helpful:

Love it! Dec 04, 2004 By J. Kellogg
I love Photo Album. It's so easy to use. The Quick Fix feature is worth the price of the program - it fixes all of my photos and is totally amazing. I also like the picture frames.

I haven't made one of the hardcover books yet, but I do use it a lot to create greeting cards. I made one for my father with a picture of me and him. He loved it and it's so much more personal than a regular greeting card. Best of all, I made it in about 5 minutes before I went to work!

10 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Non-Existent technical support Mar 11, 2005 By W. J. Eisner
I replaced my computer and reinstalled PSPA5 deluxe which I'd bought from Amazon last year. I received several error messages during the installation but the program worked. I tried to install the downloaded upgrade but got an error message that my version was not valid. Corel recently bought Jasc so I went to their site and, rather than pay per incident for tech support, I described the problem and asked for help which was free and promised the next business day. After two weeks with no reply. I sent them another e-mail and waited another week with no reply. I then sent them a fax, on the belief that my ISP might be blocking their reply, and asked for a faxed response or snail mail help. NOTHING! Spending real money for PSPA 5 apparently buys you a decent program and being totally ignored by Jasc's new owners, Corel. I gave the program a low rating because I believe that prompt e-mail support is an essential part of the cost of the program. I uninstalled PSPA 5 and will buy nothing new from JASC/COREL. Picasa 2 from Google works well and is free.

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