Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006

I really like Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006. It handle my workload quite well.
It has helped me produce award winning photography.

It is user friendly. It is not complicated like other software for digital photography.
It performs well.

It does not handle large digital files well. As iyr world of digital photography grows this software needs to grow to meet the demand. I wish they would come out with a newer version that handles large digital files and this includes jpeg. raw. tiff

Picture It

Great as a beginner product. MDIS was my first venture into the digital processing world. I wanted something somewhat inexpensive to use just to see if this was something I wanted to do as a hobby. At the time I had a film camera and had the negatives developed and a CD made instead of prints. I found it very good and was pleased with the results. Plus it is straight forward as compared to Photoshop Element 4. I like how it handles blemish removal better than PSE4 but then I'm still learning PSE4. The drawback is it cannot handle the RAW format and that is what I use strictly. I would like to see them improve their product. Currently I mostly use Capture NX. CNX cannot remove blemishes. Perhaps if MDIS and CNX would consider combining efforts...........

Easy to learn
Great results
Has levels & curves
Manipulation of shadows, highlight, midtones
Photo stitching
many more options

Cannot handle RAW format and therefore it also cannot leave the file in RAW format

Photoshop Element 4
Capture NX

Did not need to use them so I cannot rate this.