Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0

by Microsoft

Product Features

• With Microsoft Digital Image Pro and Digital Image Library included, you can conveniently edit and organize your photos
• New autofix tools for red eye, color, and exposure make fixing photos faster than ever
• Create a wide range of creative, high-quality photo projects; choose from more than 5,000 images to add to design projects
• Photo Story 2.0 lets you add music, narrate your story, and then burn a DVD for playback on your TV (Windows XP required)
• Share photos through e-mail, order prints online, or use Auto Collage to print multiple sizes

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• 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: B0002DOECA
• Item model number: S83-00220
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 4, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,146 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Offering you an expanded set of tools to fulfill your passion for digital photography in one powerful package, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10 helps you effortlessly organize, enhance, share and archive your photos. Digital Image Suite includes all the new features found in Digital Image Pro and more, and also includes Digital Image Library. If you’re serious about digital photography, this is the one for you.

Improved! Get organized quickly
Using Digital Image Library to catalog your photos (choose by date, size, favorites, ratings and more), you can store and retrieve your photos faster than ever before.

New! Put your photos in motion
Tell a more complete story using Photo Story 2.0 to create videos from your photos, complete with background music, narration, and title pages. With an easy-to-follow wizard as your guide, you can create a story to share with your family and friends in minutes.

New! You call the shots
Flags let you quickly designate the next-steps for photos as you view them--flag which photos to print, send off in e-mail, or touch-up.

New! Make instant improvements
Do away with nagging problems by using the one-click Auto Fixes. They help you adjust color, exposure, and more--even make adjustments to camera phone pictures!

New! Easily correct picture flaws
Picture too bright? Colors washed out? Bring your shots back into balance using the Color and Exposure toolsets to help you handle complex editing problems with ease.

New! Get it all in
Piece together multiple horizontal and vertical photos using intelligent Panoramic Stitching to show the whole story at once. Perfect for capturing the view from a mountaintop.

New! Get the shot you intended
Detailed level and curve adjustments allow precise adjustments over five curves--luminosity, red, green, blue and saturation.

New! Turn it down
The Reduce Noise tool helps eliminate unwanted noise in your pictures, the random pixels in a photo that are slightly off-color or too bright.

Keep blue eyes blue
Fix Red Eye Tool helps you eliminate red eye from your photos, making precise adjustments so anybody will look perfect.

Preserve your memories
Digital Image Library includes multiple archiving options to ensure photos are always safeguarded in the right place, using automatic back-up reminders.

Share your photo collections
Share more photos by quickly burning your collections to CDs and DVDs, or send them via e-mail. It’s a great way to keep the people in your life closer.

Be Creative
With over 3,000 high-quality templates and 5,000 existing images, Microsoft Digital Image Suite gives you lots of ways to turn everyday photos into memorable projects.

Delete unwanted objects
Is there something in the background you’d rather not include? Just select the item to be removed, click the Smart Erase tool and you’ll have a seamless correction.

Learn More: Microsoft Digital Image Pro

Create more professional-looking photographs with Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10. It offers powerful photo editing tools and techniques to help you fine-tune your images and let your creativity shine through. With advanced tools easy enough for everyone to quickly master, you’ll enjoy taking your digital photography to a higher level.

New! Make instant improvements
Do away with nagging problems by using the one-click Auto Fixes. They help you adjust Color, Exposure, and more--even improve Camera Phone pictures!

New! Easily correct picture flaws
Picture too bright? Colors washed out? Bring your shots back into perfect balance using the Color and Exposure Toolsets to help you handle complex editing problems with ease.

New! Get it all in
Piece together multiple horizontal and vertical photos using Intelligent Panoramic Stitching to show the whole story at once. Perfect for capturing the view from a mountaintop.

New! Get the shot you intended
Detailed level and curve adjustments allow precise adjustments over five curves--luminosity, red, green, blue and saturation.

New! Turn it down
The Reduce Noise tool helps eliminate unwanted noise in your pictures, the random pixels in a photo that are slightly off-color or too bright.

Accomplish more
The improved Mini Lab lets you edit multiple photos simultaneously, so you can quickly move on to other tasks.

Keep blue eyes blue
Fix Red Eye Tool helps you eliminate red eye from your photos, making precise adjustments so anybody will look perfect.

Make precise edits
Tools like the selection brush and mask give you greater control to cut, move, or enhance photo features. Create exactly the images you desire!

Be creative
With over 3,000 high-quality templates and 5,000 existing images, Microsoft Digital Image Pro gives you lots of ways to turn everyday photos into memorable projects.

Delete unwanted objects
Is there something in the background you’d rather not include? Just select the item to be removed, click the Smart Erase tool and you’ll have a seamless correction.

Product Description

Digital Image Suite 10.0 offers photographers an expanded set of tools to meet your passion for digital photography. One-click Auto Fixes make instant improvements, adjusting color and exposure. Get the shot you intended, or piece together multiple photos using Panoramic Stitching to show the whole story at once. If the pictures are too bright or the colors are too washed out, the Color and Exposure toolsets to help you handle it. Put your photos in motion, by adding background music, narration, and title pages -- creating a story to share with your family and friends. Reduce Noise tool fixes noisy photos -- random pixels that are slightly off-color or too bright Preserve your memories with several archiving options, with automatic back-up reminders Multiple ways to get creative - Over 3,000 templates and 5,000 images to draw from Share photo collections by burning them to CD or DVD, or sending via e-mail

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Photo Story, August 21, 2004

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M. Gerrish - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0 (CD-ROM)

I bought this digital suite for the one thing it does exceptionally well. No fuss - no muss, this software makes beautiful slide shows with narration or music. There is very little personalization, very little choice in how the slide show plays out, but the pans and zooms are nicely done anyway.

Here's where the trick comes in -- it's advertised or somehow implied that the Photo Story can be burned onto a DVD to operate on most DVD players. Exactly what I wanted, but that doesn't seem to be the actual case. Unless I'm wrong (that DOES happen on occasion) the Photo Story only seems to burn onto video CDs. Makes for a short televised story, sadly.

So that's the caveat. It's good software, easy to operate, burns digital files to CD or DVD for archiving and does this extra lovely thing that the Adobe Album doesn't do in the Photo Story. But only three stars for the DVD failure. Five stars if it's there and I've somehow missed it.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DVD Photo Story update, February 28, 2005

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D. Bew (Celebration, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0 (CD-ROM)

Although the DI Suite 10.0 will create video stories on Video CDs (VCD), a free upgrade to Photo Story is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/offers/details.aspx?displaylang=en&OfferId=7AC8A932-68A5-4147-B303-9C3456DAE568

I have used this product on a fresh install of Windows XP and an upgraded XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). The product works great on both systems and the ease of use makes this a wonderful product with an overabundance of features for a good price.

Maybe miamimeg will increase his review points based on the free update...

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Strange Crashes, November 22, 2004

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Gadget Man "Gadget Man" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10.0 (CD-ROM)

The program has excellent features and useability. Definitely easier to use complicated features (like inserting photo in a selected area), than Elements. But On three different computers (Dell and Medion) this program causes a re-boot when I try to save a complex edit. If I keep it to changing levels, it saves fine. But using the noise reduction (which is impressive by the way) caused a reboot when I tried to save. Same when I inserted a photo in a selection area, and then tried to save. It could be an incompatibilty with one of the other programs on the computer. But I've had this problem on three different computers - all with XP2 and all with Firefox (But I temporarily removed Firefox, and the problem persisted, so I don't it is to blame). Had the same problem with Version 9 as well. Perhaps the incompatibility is with XP2 - Don't know. It is a mystery and keeps me from giving this a 5 star rating. I called tech support - they were unable to identify a fix for the problem - so I'm returning the software.

When I used version 9 (before XP2) it worked fine, and I liked the software a lot. It's browser-organizer is faster than the one in Elements and Photo Album. But it's not much good if the software has problems working properly under XP2.