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Intro
MGI has released its latest version of its much
respected PhotoSuite 4 image software package. This product builds upon
the previous versions with significant enhancements and improvements and
finally offers serious competition to other more costly imaging software
packaging.
PhotoSuite IIII is aimed at the home and business
computer user alike, however they will need a digital camera, scanner and
internet access to get the most from this package. It is ideal both for
the beginner and experienced user alike. This software is all about the
digital image and what you can do with these images once they are in your
computer.
Get: You can easily capture images from scanners,
digital cameras and photo CDs. It enables drag and drop of images directly
off the internet.
Features
New! 360° Panoramas
Stitch up to 48 photos
together to create immersive 360° panoramas.
Work The Web
Templates help you build
Web pages complete with photos, links, animated GIFs, 360° panoramas,
slide shows and audio files. Then post your Web creations on popular
community sites to share with others.
New! Advanced E-mail
Quickly E-mail photos to
friends, family and colleagues. Using your favourite Internet E-mail
service.
Enhanced PhotoTapestry™
PhotoSuite will
automatically match up to 2,000 thumbnail images to the shape, colour and
texture of your original photo to create a breathtaking mosaic. Now you
can create your own library of thumbnail images.
Easy-To-Use
PhotoSuite 4 harmonizes
power and simplicity. Easy-to-use menus, step-by-step guides, toolbars and
icons let you get great results quickly!
Capture Photos
Easily retrieve images
from just about any source - scanner, digital camera, CD-ROM and the Web.
Many New Ways To Print
From wallet-sized shots to
posters, printing is a snap with PhotoSuite 4.
Power Edit
Cut, clone, crop, adjust
colours and resize your photos. It's easy to remove red eye, wrinkles and
blemishes or restore old, torn and faded pictures.
Free Photo-Sharing Web Site
Visit GatherRound.com, a
free Web service that lets you create password-protected online albums to
share with family and friends.
Highs
Organize: This is a must have component of PhotoSuite
IIII, its ability to create albums and organize the images within each
album cannot be empathized sufficiently. By the time you have some 4000
images in your collection as I have, you will need this ability and
probably would find it indispensable. For me this ability is worth the
price alone.
Prepare: Simply put this is PhotoSuite IIII image
editing section, which has over 30 special effects and a large array of
editing tools that includes unlimited undo. Two new features are
PhotoTapestry™ and Stitching.
Compose: This is PhotoSuite 4 print/publishing section
allowing you to very easily create and personalize greeting cards,
calendars, invitations and much more. With over 1,500 templates, 400 props
and dozens of fonts and special business project templates. The second CD
is jammed packed full of free content. All this should allow you to
create what you need when you need it at a minimal cost both in cash and
time.
Share: PhotoSuite 4 will allow you to share your images
with friends and family via the internet. Create your own photo web site
and display your images in albums and slide shows. The slide show
component will be of interest to all those that have a selection of images
they wish to show to a group of people. I am thinking here of estate
agents, place a pc monitor in your window and the screen can show images
of all your properties one after another. The length of time each image is
shown is fully customable.
Lows
The only problem during testing was the apparent slow
speed of the program. It seemed to need far to long to complete any task
it was asked to do. The test Pc was running Windows Me and is powered by
an Intel Celeron 533MHz with 128Mb of ram/16Mb Video Card.
Conclusion
All in all I was very impressed by PhotoSuite 4, it
installed with ease and was easy to work with, at no time did the software
crash and being very intuitive I found I did not have to constantly refer
to the well written manual. The best low cost imaging software on the
market today. |
