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Customer Reviews of Roxio PhotoSuite 5 Platinum

Stick with MGI Photosuite 4!
I really like MGI Photosuite 4 for managing my photos. I really liked the 'share' features that automatically sized all the photos I had selected for emailing and I really liked being able to just drag my photos into photo album pages. Photosuite 4 had a very nice selection of album pages and other projects. But it didn't do a very good job making web page photo albums (took forever and hard to change things). Anyway since I liked Photosuite 4 so much I decided to upgrade to version 5. BIG MISTAKE! The projects which I liked so much with version 4 are barely there - there's only 3 different types of photo album pages compared to the dozens in ver 4. The autofix has yet to make any of my photos look better - it over compensates on everything and looks terrible so you have to go thru and adjust everything yourself or use PhotoShop. I also don't like the 'new' layout and find 4 much easier to use and to switch between features. So far I don't know why they made a new version of this, 4 is much better than 5 and I'm back to using the older version. What a waste of money and a huge disappointment.

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ROXIO releases & abandons defective product with no support
I purchased this product after reading about "enhancements" to Photosuite4 Platinum (developed by MGI) which is a wonderful program. Upon installing on my computer, I noticed that some of my favorite tools from the previous version were no longer part of the program while many of the "new and improved" features did not function properly at all - the "auto-fix" function consistently ruins any photo it is applied to and there are frequent program freezes and randon crashes.
I assumed that ROXIO would release an update patch (as most companies do when bugs are discovered in their software) but none were ever released. Customer support offers NO support only a $35 charge to your credit card.
As the last nail in this program's coffin, I just noticed that ROXIO is now marketing a "NEW" version of the program (version 7 platinum). This is rather interesting considering that the previous version NEVER FUNCTIONED correctly and there was absolutely no effort on ROXIO's part to support my $50 investment in their defective product.
Do yourself a favor and RUN from this program by ROXIO.
Even with Roxio's marketing efforts, this program was ABANDONED by them in under 1 year!
p.s. what makes you think that the next product they try to sell you will actually work?

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Dont Buy It-2 reasons
1) I have owned three prior versions of this starting with the original MGI version, which is easier and allows you to do more. As another reviewer said, even version 4 is better...
2) Strangely, it does not work well with other ROXIO software. Presently, on a NEW dell computer, I have to unistall Roxio videowave to use photosuite, and uninstall photosuite to use videowave. Techsupport, while helpful, were NOT able to resolve this, plus they take 3 days to reply to each email, making problem resolution a v.e.r.y. l.o.n.g. p.r.o.c.e.s.s! (you try one of their suggestions, then wait 3 DAYS for them to reply to any question..) Apparently, the shared Roxio CD Creator engine is the problem. We will never know, I gave up, and reinstalled MGI photosuite. Great features, works 100%, even has a lot of things they decided to drop from version 5.