By the end of a week in Myanmar, we had clicked our way through 1,000 photos and were seriously in need of a photo organiser. Fortunately, we had Microsoft's Digital Image 2006 Suite -- a slick application trio designed specifically for sorting, labelling, editing, and sharing digital photos. The three tightly integrated programs in the suite -- Digital Image Library (organiser), Digital Image Editor (image editor), and Photo Story 2 (simple slide-show creator) -- are feature-rich and a snap to master. The intelligently designed interface and ubiquitous help make this program especially appealing to the casual user, but more serious photographers will find a wealth of heavy-duty editing features lurking beneath the friendly desktop.
Microsoft added quite a few new features to the 2006 version, including better organising and editing tools and camera raw file support. Plus, the full-featured editor gained a black-and-white photo effect for colourising, plus improved panoramic stitching with better control over the finished product. It may be a little pricey at AU$169.95, and it requires a gluttonous 400MB of disk space, but if you have mountains of photos that need organisation and don't want to puzzle through jargon-filled manuals, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 is an excellent investment.
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gunnar007p
18/06/2008, 10:29 AM
rating
9/10
Better cheaper than adobe and easier to use
Pros: alls good enough for me a graphic artist
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Mark
22/02/2008, 03:06 PM
rating
8/10
great product
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David Brentwood
30/09/2007, 06:15 AM
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6/10
MS Digital Image 2006 Suite will not accept nor convert my RAW images from my Konica A2, Dimage soft ware.
Why?
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teejaysp
28/11/2005, 09:10 PM
Does some things well
I hve bought Digital Image Suite 10 and downloaded 2006. I can see an improvement in forming a photo story but have been unable to form a VCD which will play on the DVD player and I could with the Suite 10 so at the moment I am not pleased with it for VCD use
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