Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Digital Image Suite Library helps you quickly organize and safekeep your photos.
• Protect and preserve your memories using state-of-the-art archival technology in the Digital Image Library to archive photos easily.
• The Suite Editor contains fast Auto Fixes and powerful correction tools, so you can easily enhance your images.
• All the tools you need to create unique images are here, including special effects, custom projects, and smart erase.
• Supports RAW files and includes a state-of-the-art archival technology that allows you to burn your photos and videos to CD, and more.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 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: B0009G037A
• Item model number: S83-00450
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,214 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #19 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Whether you're a beginner or a pro, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 will give you the powerful digital photography tools you need to take the perfect shot. And once your camera work is done, new and easy-to-use features will help you organize, creatively enhance and share your pictures with the world. As your passion for great photography grows, Digital Image Suite gives you exactly what you need to bring your vision to life.

Get powerful digital photography tools and perfect your shots -- whether you're a beginner or a pro.

Stitch images together seamlessly to create a breathtaking panorama.

The Digital Image Library makes finding pictures and videos fast and easy. View larger.

Use the Levels Auto Fix to change the levels and curves of your photos. View larger.

Instantly Organize and Archive Your Photos
Imagine having every picture you've ever taken or received from a friend accessible in an instant. Digital Image Suite lets you retrieve any picture by searching your collection by date, subject, size, keyword, 5-star rating and more. You can keep your memories safe on CD, DVD or other formats, organized so you'll always know exactly where to find the shots you want. The Digital Image Library makes finding pictures and videos fast and easy. For ultra convenience, Digital Image Suite lets you flag your photos for later printing, sharing, or editing.

Make Good Pictures Look Great
If your shot is almost perfect, but you're not quite sure how to finish it, use easy one-click Auto-Fixes to correct exposure, color and issues common to digital and phone cameras. Create gallery-ready shots with easy tools to fix red eye, reduce digital glitches, and snip out unwanted background objects. You can even sharpen your pictures to perfection using pro-level features that permit detailed level and curve adjustments. Digital Image Suite even allows you to create unique panoramas automatically by stitching together any number of shots.

But taking great shots and improving them are just the beginning. With over 5,000 built-in images and templates, you can turn your photo into greeting cards, calendars, and collages -- just about anything you can imagine. You can also turn your images into moving video slide shows viewable by anyone with Photo Story 3, using music, narration and transitions to show off your memories in style.

Digital Image Suite works well with others. With it you can load your shots quickly from virtually any source: digital cameras, scanners, cell phones, digital memory cards and many other devices. To hang onto your memories in the way that you want, the software lets you save and print photos and projects in the right size and format for your needs. And Digital Image Suite turns the world into your gallery instantly; you can show off your favorites to friends, family and anyone else instantly via e-mail, cell phone, PDA or the Web.

Product Description

Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 brings together all the sophisticated tools you need to organize, enhance, create, and share your digital photos. Digital Image Suite offers powerful tools that are intuitive and easy to use no matter what your skill level. It’s the complete photo solution that grows with you.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

216 of 220 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent photo editor for beginners, August 14, 2005

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Will (Arcadia, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

As a beginner in photo editing, I am frustrated with Adobe Photoshop 3.0. Then I tried to shop around and see what is there. I found this Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006. I bought it, and it worked beautifully. If layer and transparency in Photoshop are difficult, then in Digital Image, it is as easy as turning your palm up and down. I can put my family picture into a different background, and I can set the degree of transparency as I wish. The color editing tools are rich, and you can always and try and if you don't like it, you can undo the color change.

I can remove an object from a picture by Smart Erase
And if I'm not satisfied, I can do more with blending brush

Overall, I am very very satisfied with MDI Suite 2006. It gives me a new hope amidst my frustration with photo editing software. And last but not least, the customer service is free 24 hours a day, and they are competent. I got much more than what I paid for.

59 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great tool for the non-professional, December 28, 2005

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Christopher (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I've got a great digital camera. I enjoy taking pictures of the friends and family. I've got photoshop 7 and I know how to use about 5% of it. I don't have the time to take the class to learn the software. I picked up Digial Image Suite 2006 on a whim and as it turns out, I LOVE IT. It's easy to use and it does everything that matters to me. Now sure it might be nice to convert the picture over to a water color painting with the granite sandstone filter applied and blah blah blah... whatever. I just want my pictures to look better and to have a little more control to remove a few things that I don't want in them. With DIS2006, it's easy and fast. I am sold. I use DIS2006 all the time now, my pictures look great and I'm VERY happy. Don't let people turn you off to this product. I'm not a pro microsoft advocate, but I've got to tell you, this is good software. You'll pick it up quickly and and do more in an hour than you did in 10 hours with photoshop 7 unless you're a professional in which case what are you doing looking at this review, it's for the normal people.

Good luck.

56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware of a Few Glitches, November 16, 2005

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Concerned User (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

While this software is easy to learn and use, it has a few technical glitches that one should consider before purchasing.
The sharpening tool, while great in Version 9, has been a big disappointment in the last two versions. I thought that Microsoft would have corrected this after magazine technical reviews pointed this out, but after purchasing this version, I can see that they haven't.
One of the big selling points of this software is the ease in which one can create projects....magazine covers, cards, framed pictures etc. However, one should be aware that not all of these features work fine with all photo files. After adding a photo to a Magazine cover, for example, and saving the file in the .png format, upon reopening the file, sometimes the photo is fuzzy and highly digitized. ( The automatic resizing doesn't always work correctly. When this happen, an acceptable workaround, to some, is to save the file in a jpeg format. You then have a flattened file that you cannot make changes to after saving, but at least the pictures are clear when reopening to print another copy.)
Other than these problems, the software itself is pretty good for the most part; the short learning curve, ease of use and the large array of project templates make it one the best on the market in this price range.