Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 5 review

Verdict:

Review Date: 19 Oct 2004

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Cliff Joseph

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

There are several media management applications that can help you organise large collections of digital photos, but Jasc's Photo Shop Photo Album is something of a veteran, having reached version 5.

The program has a variety of new features, including lots of new templates that you can use for creating calendars, greeting cards and photo albums. There's even an option for compressing pictures into a format suitable for display on a mobile phone and emailing them to your friends. However, the main change in this version is the redesigned interface, which makes the program much tidier and easier to use.

The main toolbar at the top of the screen now includes a series of tabs that allow you to switch between different tools. The first tab takes you into the main browser mode, where you can preview all your pictures onscreen and sort through them in various ways. One nice touch here is the calendar mode, which allows you to select a date and then view just the pictures taken on that day. There's also an improved zoom tool, which makes it easy to adjust the size of the thumbnail previews so that you can get as many pictures onscreen as you want.

The other tabs take you into editing mode, where you can modify individual pictures, and into the create and share modes, where you can create greetings cards and other documents or back up your pictures on to CD.

At just £30, Paint Shop Photo Album is good value for home users who like to take a lot of digital snapshots. But business users and more serious photographers may prefer a more sophisticated program such as Extensis' Portfolio.

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