Kai's PhotoSoap2

by Scansoft

Product Features

• Edit, colorize and create desktop slideshows, web pages, quality prints

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B00002K0Z3
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,796 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Kai's Photo Soap 2 is a new genre of graphics application, designed to meet the needs of those in the process of building a library of digital images. With the proliferation of digital photo cameras comes the ability to shoot pictures indiscriminately, so the release of this product couldn't come at a better time. For the digital film buff, there's the initial investment in the camera, but the pictures are free. As long as you have space on your computer's hard drive, you can save an almost unlimited number of photos. The inherent problem with this kind of freedom is the sheer volume of pictures that can quickly accumulate, the issue that Photo Soap addresses.

Photo Soap is several tools combined: a catalog builder, a retoucher, a compositing application, and an album maker.

With the organizing tools, one can sort and view a collection of photos by date, size, content, name, and color. A favorite feature is the "lightbox," which lets you view your photos as if they are traditional mounted slides on a light box.

The retouching tools are basic but useful, and the compositing and layering abilities are fun for building collages. The album maker is designed to make your photos into digital photo albums that you can share with others. For those without a computer who want to view your albums, Photo Soap can print album pages with headers, text, and captions.

Like all of Kai's tools, Photo Soap has a nonstandard interface, and if you're used to a conventional Mac or Windows toolbar, icon set, window, or menu system, this interface is a little hard to get used to. The interface is well planned though, and whatever the quick reference card doesn't cover can be found in the online manual.

Photo Soap is a handy tool, and if your hard drive is quickly filling up with folders full of JPG images from that handy digital camera, Soap is a great companion to help get organized. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description

Turn those "marginal" photos into prizewinners with Kai's Photo Soap 2. It's the revolutionary new program that gives you all the power of professional retouching in a sleek, intuitive package anyone can use. The new, Web-savvy Kai's Photo Soap 2 easily restores old or damaged photographs, adds stunning special effects, prints to popular formats and papers, and exports pages ready for the Web.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kai's Photo Soap - A Great Photography Program, June 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Kai's PhotoSoap2 (CD-ROM)

Kai's Photo Soap 2 shows how to perfect your picture! You can edit it because of common problems (red eye, scratches, fading, etc.) or create your own unique picture by cloning and more! Also, you can make a calendar and organize a digital photo album. By Kai's Photo Soap, its definitely worth it!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage, November 10, 2003

By 

Joshua S. Kraling "joshgambit" (Huxley, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kai's PhotoSoap2 (CD-ROM)

Won't run on Windows XP, even with the patch, & in compatability mode. NO support from ScanSoft. I'd give it negative stars if I could.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great image editing program, June 23, 2000

By 

Melanie Powell (Jonesboro, AR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kai's PhotoSoap2 (CD-ROM)

Kai's photo Soap is a great product to use to touch up your scanned images, digital photos and especially restoring old photographs. When using this software, it gives you great control as to touching up, clone painting. The tools you work with feel just like you were using a paint brush, eraser, pencil, whatever you are using. It is especially good to use when you are working with an old photograph that is very badly scratched. You can zoom in and clone paint from another source in the photo and once you're done you would never know there was a scratch there.