Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 [Old Version]
Customer Review: Buggy
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought version 1.0 and it was unusable. Now Adobe offers only a $10 break on the upgrade! No way. I'll try other products and let other folks pay retail for beta software.Customer Review: Good for kids
Summary: 2 Stars
PS Album 2.0 is an easy, very basic program. Relative to others it is slow and childish. You must "import" photos before you can view them, a nuisance others avoid. You cannot combine categories, e.g., to select all "Vacation" photos which are also "2003". Among the heavily promoted album programs, ACDSee is a better choice although its current version has a few annoying bugs.Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
Adobe Photoshop Album is simple and straightforward to use. In a word, it is very intuitive. That cannot often be said about software. It can do basic photo editing, but Photoshop Elements or similar program is needed for in depth editing. But if all you do is crop and remove red-eye, this will do it. I would highly recommend to anyone.Customer Review: Some warnings on Adobe Photoshop Album
Summary: 2 Stars
I haven't upgraded to V 2 but I wanted to make a few comments about Photoshop Album that I haven't seen in other reviews. Overall, I think it is a fair program with a decent interface and if you are compulsive enough to tag everything, it has a reasonable system for storing and arranging photos. However, if you are a serious photographer, it is likely that your method of arranging photos won't be Adobe's. All imports go into the Photoshop album folder with cryptic folder titles that the program selects and it's cumbersome to go back and fix the folder titles so that they mean something. If you use Photoshop and save multiple versions of a single photograph you have worked on, Album has a non-intuitive way of storing your various edits that I find frustrating to deal with. If I save each edit as a separate file, I have to go back and re-import those files into Album or try to figure out how Album has stored them. I mainly bought PS Album for its slide show capability but it has serious deficiencies: only one music file per slide show is the first. In spite of numerous user complaints, this was not fixed with version 2. Of course, you can concatenate multiple songs into one file but that requires additional software and expense if you don't already own music-editing software.
Secondly, believe it or not, PS Album will not burn a video DVD and this feature was not added to V 2. It will burn a slide show to a DVD and you can watch the slide show on a computer but not on a DVD player connected to a TV. You can, of course, make video CDs to watch on your TV, but Album has a tremendous overhead in that it creates gigantic PDF files and a slide show larger than 50 slides may not fit on a CD. (I have a slide show of 167 images totalling 297 MB and PS Album filled up 3.6 GB on a DVD +R !!). Thirdly, it takes a really long time for even a fast computer to create a slide show of this size.
One might imagine that creating such large disks takes time, and it does. Slow performance, inadequate features, and an organization method that forces me to adapt to PS Album rather than software that works the way I want it to, will keep me from upgrading to Version 2.
Customer Review: Stick with version 1. Version 2 is a step backwards.
Summary: 1 Stars
I've used Photoshop Album v1 to organize thousands of digital images and found it very useful. I was excited to get a copy of v2, but was very disappointed.
The big change in v2 is a cosmetic facelift of the application's appearance.
Unfortunately, Version 2 offers no significant new features and actually removed one of the most useful image organization views from v1!
In PS Album v1, you see an outline of Tags on the left, a 'Picture Well' in the center, and 'Properties' information on the right.
This way, as soon as you selected an image in the Well, you could look at the properties on the right of the screen and:
a) immediately see which tags had been applied to the image,
b) directly enter a caption, description, etc
c) see the EXIF metadata stored in the image by your camera
(date, time, exposure, camera settings, etc)
This mode *no longer exists* in Version 2! You can only display the image properties in a separate dialog-box that floats above (and covers) the Picture Well and/or the Tags area which is now shown on the right of the screen. The Properties window can not be 'docked' in the application frame. If you want to see the image properties, you are either unable to scroll the Tags list, or you are forced to cover up most of the images in the 'Well', or continually close and re-open the Properties window by using a menu command.
This is a step backwards from version 1, and does not address any of v1's shortcomings.
- There are still problems when using the product on a network
- You still cannot edit or add to the EXIF data in your image files (such as copyright-string, location or photographer).
- useless error messages still pop up. For example, if you drag a tag onto an image that already has that tag, (something that is much more likely in v2 since you can't easily see what tags have already been applied anymore) you are forced to 'OK' a pointless error dialog telling you that the tag has already been applied to the image.
After a week of trying v2, I have found nothing new that outweighs the loss of the v.1 organizational view. I have removed v2 from my PC and have reinstalled v1.
The loss of the very useful and efficient v.1 organization display and the lack of any other significant new feature leads me to strongly urge v1.0 users to wait until v.3 before upgrading.
I wish Adobe had spent more time improving the functionality of the application to make it more effective for users, instead of wasting their time and my money on cosmetically rounding the corners of the application windows and coloring it all grey.