Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 4.0 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00003ZANM
• Item model number: 28101148
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 27, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,047 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With Adobe PhotoDeluxe 4.0, it's easy to bring photos into your computer, organize them in albums, and make repairs and improvements. Then you can have endless fun creating personalized photo projects to share with family and friends in print, via e-mail, or on the Web. PhotoDeluxe comes to you from the makers of Adobe Photoshop, an image-editing tool for professional designers.

Customer Reviews

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285 of 289 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So-So, March 4, 2000

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R. Lade "prophoto" (Palm Beach, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 4.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Let me begin by saying that I've only been using Photo Deluxe for a couple weeks, but I'm probably being generous with the 4-star rating. The fourth star was mainly for the free web-posting capability and Adobe's reputation. As general use goes, I guess I'd have to give it a three. First off, as with prior versions, the step-by-step progression through everything makes me crazy! I had hoped that Adobe would have abandoned this for the new version. I'm not wild about having to go through all the proceeding steps to get to the one I want. Also, I don't care for the way this program sets up printing, and don't make more than one mistake without saving because there's only one level of undo, so if you really screw up, you have to start over from the beginning or your last save point. And then when you want to "save as" you get to choose the Adobe PDD format...period, unless you save for e-mail or the web then you get to choose JPEG and a couple others. But try to open an Adobe PDD format in another editing program and you'll more than likely find that you can't do it. In it's favor, there's a lot of neat tools here and it's fairly easy to use. There's lots of "cute" stuff like the clip art and the seasonal add-ons that the program automatically notifies you of so you can put the CD in and load it if you're into that sort of stuff. I've spent an enormous amount of time experimenting with different editing programs over the last few months looking for a decent one under $100 just for general purpose use. I do photography professionally and I use Photoshop 5.5, but that's another league. This is all opinion, but for ease of use, Microsoft Picture It gets my vote especially when it's used along with Microsoft Home Publisher 2000. But for about twenty bucks more than Photo Deluxe 4.0 there's Ulead Photo Impact 5.0. This is a great program! There's up to 99 levels of undo and great tools and palletts. I use this one extensively. And the really good web tools are on Photo Suite III. As for Photo Deluxe 4.0, it's an ok program, but if you're just beginning to get into digital imaging, I believe Picture It is the better bet, and if you want more for not much more, go with Photo Impact 5.0. All in all, I'm really dissappointed in Photo Deluxe 4.0.

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Collossal rip-off, March 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 4.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I am a long time user of Adobe Photo Deluxe(versions 2.9 and 3.0) and think their image editing capability is good. I bought 4.0 for its advertised photo organization. I couldn't believe that it was the same archaic difficult system...My Photos and the archaic .PDD extension on pictures. I couldn't even download my digital camera into the program....it would only do one image at a time painfully slow. I bought this new program hoping to eliminate my need to work with 3 different programs as I currently do. Dreamer. I called Adobe to see if I could return the product to them. The phone rep was rude and totally uninterested in my concerns. I'm stuck with a lemon.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Although it was free, I got less than I paid for, November 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 4.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This software came with my digital camera. ... One of the key aspects of digital photography is that it is probably the best way to preserve and easily distribute photo collections to posterity. Adobe's oddball proprietary format nullifies this. It produces large files that stand a more than even chance of being unreadable by software 10+ years down the road. Exporting to a .jpg does appear to recompress the image and strip off non-viewable information text that some programs (and cameras) append to the file that better describe the photo. I'll stick with any other photo editing software that uses native .jpg files. There are several better choices with just as many tools. Try Photosuite 4 with a rebate for example (almost free).