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(More customer reviews)Let me begin by saying that I've only been using Photo Deluxe for a couple weeks, but I'm probably being generous with the 4-star rating. The fourth star was mainly for the free web-posting capability and Adobe's reputation. As general use goes, I guess I'd have to give it a three. First off, as with prior versions, the step-by-step progression through everything makes me crazy! I had hoped that Adobe would have abandoned this for the new version. I'm not wild about having to go through all the proceeding steps to get to the one I want. Also, I don't care for the way this program sets up printing, and don't make more than one mistake without saving because there's only one level of undo, so if you really screw up, you have to start over from the beginning or your last save point. And then when you want to "save as" you get to choose the Adobe PDD format...period, unless you save for e-mail or the web then you get to choose JPEG and a couple others. But try to open an Adobe PDD format in another editing program and you'll more than likely find that you can't do it. In it's favor, there's a lot of neat tools here and it's fairly easy to use. There's lots of "cute" stuff like the clip art and the seasonal add-ons that the program automatically notifies you of so you can put the CD in and load it if you're into that sort of stuff. I've spent an enormous amount of time experimenting with different editing programs over the last few months looking for a decent one under $100 just for general purpose use. I do photography professionally and I use Photoshop 5.5, but that's another league. This is all opinion, but for ease of use, Microsoft Picture It gets my vote especially when it's used along with Microsoft Home Publisher 2000. But for about twenty bucks more than Photo Deluxe 4.0 there's Ulead Photo Impact 5.0. This is a great program! There's up to 99 levels of undo and great tools and palletts. I use this one extensively. And the really good web tools are on Photo Suite III. As for Photo Deluxe 4.0, it's an ok program, but if you're just beginning to get into digital imaging, I believe Picture It is the better bet, and if you want more for not much more, go with Photo Impact 5.0. All in all, I'm really dissappointed in Photo Deluxe 4.0.
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With Adobe PhotoDeluxe 4.0, it's easy to bring photos into your computer, organize them in albums, and make repairs and improvements. Then you can have endless fun creating personalized photo projects to share with family and friends in print, via e-mail, or on the Web. PhotoDeluxe comes to you from the makers of Adobe Photoshop, an image-editing tool for professional designers.
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