Product Description

Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 makes digital photos look more professional by giving you powerful photo editing tools that are easy enough for anyone to master. Advanced filters and professional techniques make artistic creative results simple to achieve.* New color management tools Color management and exposure tools offer precise color enhancement and correction.* Improved Fix Red-Eye tool Eliminate red eye from your photos in a snap. * New Panoramic Stitching Create a panoramic view instantly by connecting multiple photos into one seamless image.* Share your photo creations Share photos through e-mail order prints online or use Auto Collage to print multiple sizes and multiple photos on one page.* Create compelling photos Get creative with photo filters effects and designer templates for cards calendars and more. -- SPECIFICATIONs --------------------------------------REQUIRES- Multimedia PC with Pentium 700-MHz or faster processor 128 MB of RAM 300 MB of available hard-disk space 4x CD-ROM drive or faster Super VGA monitor 800x600 16-bit color or greater monitor Multimedia PC with Pentium 700-MHz or faster processor 1 MB of video RAM Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 software required and included; up to an additional 60 MB of available hard-disk space may be required for Internet Explorer upgrade (this installation will not replace your primary browser). Windows XP/2000/ME/98 www.microsoft.com

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4252 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: L68-00037
• Released on: 2004-08-02
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English

Features

• Powerful photo-editing tools; easy to use
• New color management and exposure tools
• Improved fix red-eye tool; new panoramic stitching
• Share photo creations; e-mail, order prints online, or print out
• Designer templates for cards, calendars, and more

From the Manufacturer
Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 makes digital photos look more professional by giving you powerful photo-editing tools that are easy enough for an amateur to master. Advanced filters and professional techniques make artistic, creative results simple to achieve.

Features:

• New color-management tools: color management and exposure tools offer precise color enhancement and correction.
• Improved fix red-eye tool: eliminate red eye from your photos in a snap.
• New panoramic stitching: create a panoramic view instantly by connecting multiple photos into one seamless image.
• Share your photo creations: share photos through e-mail, order prints online, or use Auto Collage to print multiple sizes and multiple photos on one page.
• Create compelling photos: get creative with photo filters, effects, and designer templates for cards, calendars, and more.

Customer Reviews

Great image editing software for casual users
I myself use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 for organizing and editing my digital images, but my dad, a long-time user of Microsoft Picture It!, decided to go for this "upgrade." Even though the user interface has changed, he had no trouble getting used to the new interface and the new features, even though he's not computer-savvy at all. He really likes its simple interface and the fact the program does what he wants it to do.

I've played with Digital Image Pro 10 a little bit and although I won't switch from Photoshop Elements 3, I admit that if you are just a casual user, or have little patience for the complicated user interface of Photoshop Elements 3 or JASC Paint Shop (not to mention the free open-source GIMP), Digital Image Pro 10 is a good solution for everyday digital imaging needs. I won't rehash the features you get; suffice it to say that most families should find the feature set more than adequate.

My dad runs this on an XP Home PC with a 2.2GHz Celeron processor and 256MB of RAM, and it's pretty snappy and very stable. The old version of Picture It he used to use was slow, but he hasn't had any complaints about Digital Image Pro 10.

My take: if you are a casual user of image editing software or want to save money, Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10 is probably the best bang for the buck. If you want more creative controls, consider Photoshop Elements 3. If you want ultimate controls (i.e., what the pros want), none other than Photoshop CS will suffice.

More Powerful than you think!
After picking up this software I just had to write a quick review. I use this software to edit pictures, and to use them for flyers, graphics and logos. I used Microsoft Photodraw when it was in style, but knew that it did not have the layering capability of Adobe photoshop.

The edits that I want to do are quick and easy edits, I normally don't mess around with pictures that are hopeless and try to turn them into Ansel Adams prints or somethig. Digital Image Pro is very capable of any of the editing, cropping, resizing, and color enhancing that adobe can do. However, this software doesn't make you juggle 10 differnt layers for each edit. It does allow you to create layers and use them in much the same way, but Image Pro lets you almost ignore the fact that you are using them.

The tools for using text and adding your own drawings are much simpler and less time consuming than anything that Adobe or Corel has let you do in the Essentials Packet (Corel) or the Elements Packets that Adobe has done.

Other cool features are a much more intuitive and accurate feature for removing an object from your photo. One of the earlier customer reviews stated that the guy had trouble with the red eye tool. It is the exact problem that you will have with the red eye tool in elements. The best way to deal with it is to enlarge your photo as big as you can get it when you do the red eye reducer. Adobe also just puts black or dark brown on top of the red eye, in this Image Pro, it is actually easier to edit the color that it added to the red eye. I am far more accurate with the red eye feature in this software than I am with the Elements software.

The other great thing about this particular title versus the Image Suite is that you don't have to mess with Microsoft's photoalbum that is pretty much mandatory in the Suite software. The photoalbum is very comparable to the one that is so annoying in the Photoshop Elements pack.

I personally am just blown away that I can get all of the features that I ever use in Elements for a third of the price with this software. It is definitely worth checking out.

Not a good product, Version 9 was better
Digital Image Pro Ver. 9 was better quality software. New version 10 makes improvements on automating some tasks but made other fundamental functions work really badly: If you apply Red Eye correction, most of times when trying to increase the effect to achieve a natural eye color, the software inserts a Black ring around the eyes!! Also, the sharpen function works pretty, pretty bad!!

I don't understand why releasing to market software with these kinds of bugs in features that are used the most if they were working perfectly on version 9?

I returned this very expensive ("very" poor price/performance) software to buy other program where all the editing functions work as they should!!