Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
2-5 years

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
Reliability is not good .. constant problem w/ crashes .. ''performed an illegal action'' messages.. very frustrating.

Strengths:
None

Weaknesses:
None

Similar Products Used:
None

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
0-1 years

Visitors rate this review
3.33 of 5,
3 votes

Price Paid:  $48.00

Summary:
Since purchasing a new computer with the O/S of Windows 2000, I have had nothing but TROUBLE with Adobe Photo Deluxe. I could not recommend anyone with a newer operating system to purchase this product. I have received countless error messages, not enough hard drive space messages (despite having 50Gig unused space) and worst of all, contstant ''performed an illegal action'' messages. While using Photo Deluxe with Windows 2000, I am having to restart my computer 2 to 4 times per day. I can get no Adobe technical support without paying dearly for it: $25+ per request. In the chat room on their site, I find that my exact difficulties are not isolated. Their product was not formulated for Windows 2000, and at this point, those of us with a new computer are left in a lurch. I am currently searching for a Win 2000 compatible photo software pkg.

Strengths:
Although no manual is offered, the program is easy to get around, and the various tools are self-explanatory.

Weaknesses:
All sorts of glitches with the Windows 2000 operating system.

Similar Products Used:
Picture It, Adobe Corel, Micrografx

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
2 Years

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5,
1 votes

Summary:
Adobe PhotoDeluxe is a great product for repairing old photos the clone feature is real time compared to the other products on the market.

Strengths:
Clone Feature

Weaknesses:
Color correction tool does not give you enought choice The edit tools are a pain to get to you must click on several different boxes to get to mhat you need to work with.

Similar Products Used:
Microsoft PhotoDraw NewSoft ImageFolio Adobe PhotoShop LE Adobe PhotoShop 6.0 CorelDraw ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000

Customer Service:
Extremely Poor

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
2 Months

Summary:
Photoshop, is the best imaging software I have ever used, I've used quite a bit, and this is the best.

Strengths:
The ability to "liquify" images, and pull and squish, the image.

Weaknesses:
It's a little hard to figure out what does what.

Similar Products Used:
Other adobe products.

Customer Service:
never used it.

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
1 Year

Summary:
I've been using this product for over a year now. It has been a real help to my web design. The best thing I like about 4.0 is, I can take an Image from my digital camera, at any resolution and shrink it down for a web site really fast! I will continue to use it for this reason. A few days ago I went and bot Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 I will have to say, this program has a lot in it. For the price of Adobe 4.0 I will have to say it may not have as much as Paint shop, but it kicks butt for simple web design. I will recomend this product for any first time user of Imaging. It is a great starter kit for your collection. So if your looking for a good basic Imaging product, buy Adobe Photo Deluxe 4.0 and I would like to say one more thing. I'm glad I found a program that will convert bmp's, into Jpeg format really quick and easy.

Strengths:
It seems to be simple enough to figure out for yourself, it has all the basics you could ask for. the price is great!

Weaknesses:
I will have to say, Uses lots of memory! and dont try to install on old win95.....you'll have to to go to the Adobe site and download a file called GLU32.DLL and DirectX Full installation. but for the newer o/s no problem.

Similar Products Used:
Picture Publisher, Polaroid PhotoMAX image maker, Microsoft Image composer (Sucks)

Customer Service:
never had to call