Cheap Digital Image Suite 9 (Software) (Windows NT, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98) Price

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Customer Reviews of Digital Image Suite 9

I like the ease and simplicity that ACDSee offers. It is fast and stable with some basic editing features built in.

I like the advanced features of Adobe Elements 2.0. But I don't have the time or desire to become an expert to be able to use it.

I think overall, the Digital Image Suite 9 package is a nice balance. It's fast, clean, kind of intuitive, and you get a full featured package with enough advanced features to keep most people happy.

One reviewer said this product did not have 48 bit support, only 24 bit. Well guess what...no other editing packages provide support for 48 bit! Just recently, Photoshop CS is the first product to provide true 48 bit support.

I have my own business and wanted to whip up a corporate logo fast. I spent days exploring and trying to figure out Adobe Elements. I bought a beginners book, and dedicated 4 straight days to it. It got me nowhere. I took the book back and decided not to purchase a full version of Elements.
I borrowed this program from a friend, tried it and banged out a corporate logo in 2 days. I bought this program and I have been happy with it. However, I have no desire to develop my photo editing skills since my business is in computer networks, not photo editing. I do take photos of client locations so I can plan cabling and setups. I use this program for quickie editing and then I am done.

Overall, the novice/beginner will appreciate the simplicity, the tutorials and integration between all components. The price seems fair too. If your desires grow, you can always advance to something like Photoshop Elements or CS.

Disappointing at best
Pros: Easy, attractive interface. Good integration.
Cons: Too easy to modify original photo. Too underpowered. Keyword handling has poor functionality. Resizing difficult. Red eye reduction poor.

Now for the details:
This product seriously underperforms compared to Adobe's products. The Adobe Album and Elements combination is MUCH more powerful. Digital Image Suite (DIS) doesn't even create web photo galleries. The keyword function is crazy... it's all one level, so once you add any number of keywords, you have to scroll through long lists (Album has multi-level keyword handling, but only to three levels). With Album, you double-click to edit simple things, such as red-eye reduction and cropping, or right-click for more complicated tasks. With DIS, any editing requires opening Digital Image Pro, which can be a resource drain for the average computer. Additionally, you have to make a copy of a photo to edit a copy... Adobe creates a copy automatically, which prevents you from accidentally editing your original photo. And the red-eye wizard in Album is better... eyes look more natural (note: neither program gets rid of pet "red-eyes", since they're not really red).

And something that I can't believe they did: you can't resize the image by pixels. So if I want to resize my 2492x1924 image to 640x480 image to email, I have to guess what printed size that would be at a certain resolution. With Adobe Photoelements, you can specify size in pixels or inches.. MUCH more useful.

I got this software since I thought Microsoft would put out a competitive product, but I was very disappointed. This product doesn't have a single feature that is better than Adobe Album/Photoshop elements, and most features aren't as good, if they are available at all. I wish I could return it...

CPU killer
Pros:
cool features such as organizing pictures using keywords.
Versatile.
Satisfies average user.

Cons:
CPU consuming!!!!
I am using a P4 2.4Ghz 512MB PC. Everytime i open the "Digital Image Library", the CPU usage immediately goes to 100% continuously and the pictures start flashing! When i use this amazon window the cover the library window, the CPU usage drops down immediately. It looks like the library is constantly refreshing the pictures. I am sure there is sofware defects with this product because displaying the pictures shouldn't be that CPU consuming.

I decided not to use it to organize my pictures anymore because it's to uncomfortable to use a software that will monopolize the CPU.