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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’ve been waiting for is here.
- View and 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’s so intuitive, it takes only a moment to get started. - Fix and 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’s a ton of tools to enhance them. From transforming photos to black and white to creating a panorama, you’ll be surprised by how easy it is. - Create and share: drag and drop to create impressive keepsakes
Just think, all your photos plus 17 different ways to share them... the opportunities are endless! With everything from print templates to QuickCDs, Photo Album helps you create projects, gifts, and photo memories easily in a short amount of time. - Back-up and protect: quickly back-up photos on CD
With just one click, Paint Shop Photo Album 5 protects your digital photos. Its PhotoSafe archiving system automatically tracks photos you’ve backed up on CD, which ones you’ve added to your collection since then, and reminds you when it’s time to backup again.
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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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145 of 155 people found the following review helpful
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.
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 people found the following review helpful
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.
- 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 people found the following review helpful
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.
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Paint Shop Photo Album 5
This is a simple picture album program. Easy to use and can sort through many pictures. The program is properly priced. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Moshe Oren
Non-Existent technical support
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. Read more
Published on March 11, 2005 by W. J. Eisner
Decent but could be so much better with attention to details
Some of the other reviewers have here have spelled out where the program works well so you can consider this the CONS review.
1. The biggest complaint is speed. Read more
1. The biggest complaint is speed. Read more
Published on January 29, 2005 by Tony J. Vrolyk
Love it!
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. Read more
Published on December 3, 2004 by J. Kellogg
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