Roxio PhotoSuite 5 Platinum

by Roxio

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008K1OS
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,953 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Ensure you make the most of your move to digital photography with PhotoSuite 5 Platinum Edition, which provides comprehensive photo editing without the learning curve. Effortlessly transfer photos from your digital camera, organize them in electronic albums, and share them through e-mail, print, online services, or on CD. Fix all your photos using Advanced PhotoDoctor, the one-click sure cure for ailing snaps, or apply any one of a host of professional level editing tools. Get creative with PhotoSuite's project templates, and design personalized greeting cards, calendars, invitations, and one-of-a-kind collages. Use built-in burning capabilities to protect your precious memories on CD or to create VideoCDs that you can enjoy in your living room.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great software for sharing and publishing photos, July 31, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Roxio PhotoSuite 5 Platinum (CD-ROM)

I've been using the newest version of Photosuite (v 5.0 Platinum) for a couple of weeks now, and here are my impressions.

This is not Adobe Photoshop. On the other hand, the average user doesn't need all the power of Photoshop, and Photosuite offers all of the digital editing and correction tools that you really need. If you don't have much experience with sophisticated image editing, never fear, because, thanks to a wizard-style interface, the learning curve is pretty shallow with Photosuite. Pros will probably argue that the wizard interface is tedious, but amateurs and hobbyists may appreciate it.

The sharing utilities are great. You can easily organize and burn a VideoCD slideshow that will readily play on most DVD players. I haven't tried many of the other sharing features, but the VideoCD feature is alone is worth the price.

The thumbnail generation and preview screens are much faster in v. 5.0 compared to v. 4.0 and earlier. In fact, virtually all of the utilities are faster in the current version. I should note, however, that earlier versions were notoriously slow (owing perhaps to inefficient programming of basic image manipulation algorithms?), and so it's easy for this one to seem zippy by comparison.

I have only one complaint. The current version allows you to view photos in (essentially) two modes: "album" mode and "edit" mode, but you cannot leap over to "edit" mode to correct a picture that you are currently viewing in "album" mode and then switch back again, or at least I haven't figured out how to do that easily! I prefer the connected "edit" and "album" modes of the previous versions.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Stick with MGI Photosuite 4!, July 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Roxio PhotoSuite 5 Platinum (CD-ROM)

I really like MGI Photosuite 4 for managing my photos. I really liked the 'share' features that automatically sized all the photos I had selected for emailing and I really liked being able to just drag my photos into photo album pages. Photosuite 4 had a very nice selection of album pages and other projects. But it didn't do a very good job making web page photo albums (took forever and hard to change things). Anyway since I liked Photosuite 4 so much I decided to upgrade to version 5. BIG MISTAKE! The projects which I liked so much with version 4 are barely there - there's only 3 different types of photo album pages compared to the dozens in ver 4. The autofix has yet to make any of my photos look better - it over compensates on everything and looks terrible so you have to go thru and adjust everything yourself or use PhotoShop. I also don't like the 'new' layout and find 4 much easier to use and to switch between features. So far I don't know why they made a new version of this, 4 is much better than 5 and I'm back to using the older version. What a waste of money and a huge disappointment.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ROXIO releases & abandons defective product with no support, February 17, 2004

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JAB "JAB" (SLC, UTAH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roxio PhotoSuite 5 Platinum (CD-ROM)

I purchased this product after reading about "enhancements" to Photosuite4 Platinum (developed by MGI) which is a wonderful program. Upon installing on my computer, I noticed that some of my favorite tools from the previous version were no longer part of the program while many of the "new and improved" features did not function properly at all - the "auto-fix" function consistently ruins any photo it is applied to and there are frequent program freezes and randon crashes.
I assumed that ROXIO would release an update patch (as most companies do when bugs are discovered in their software) but none were ever released. Customer support offers NO support only a $35 charge to your credit card.
As the last nail in this program's coffin, I just noticed that ROXIO is now marketing a "NEW" version of the program (version 7 platinum). This is rather interesting considering that the previous version NEVER FUNCTIONED correctly and there was absolutely no effort on ROXIO's part to support my $50 investment in their defective product.
Do yourself a favor and RUN from this program by ROXIO.
Even with Roxio's marketing efforts, this program was ABANDONED by them in under 1 year!
p.s. what makes you think that the next product they try to sell you will actually work?