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Why I like this better than the 4.5 suite:
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- Tools are more stable (with 4.5 I would experience crashes from time to time - so far none with this suite)
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- Great customer service with quick responce when emailing support
- Great demos and free tools on their web site so you can try before buying


I am using this with the following programs:
Lightroom 2 (64-bit)
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I am running a Windows 7 system with 8 gigs of RAM

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An email to Nero support went unanswered. Shame on Nero for dumping this labor-intensive problem on its paying customers.Get more detail about Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced [OLD VERSION].

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Then I finally had to upgrade in order to run a certain application for work. I'm glad I did.

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I was worried that the newer OS would run slow on my four-year-old 2GHz Mac, but I need not have worried. If anything, it seems speedier than Tiger and even seems to have resolved a few conflicts I had with the old OS.

Best of all, this bundle gave me an excuse to upgrade iLife, which I hadn't upgraded in at least three versions. I was impressed by so many of the more recent features in iPhoto, including a feature called Faces (which does a decent job of "learning" the names of who's in each photo) and another called Places, which lets me locate photos taken with a GPS-enabled camera on a map. Easy posting to Facebook is also a nice time-saver. The animated slide show templates that it provides are fun and turn your vacation photos into virtual scrapbooks.

I don't use the other iLife apps as much as iPhoto, but even a simple tour has left me inspired. The latest version of iDVD provides several very professional-looking user interfaces, or Themes, for your DVD. And GarageBand and iMovie look like a lot of fun to try out, if only I had the time.

I haven't taken the time to install any of the iWork applications, because I frankly don't think I'll use them: I'm locked into the Microsoft Office death-vice and rely on seamless compatibility with those applications.

Nevertheless, if you plan to take advantage of even a third of the hundreds of new features in the Mac Box Set, it would seem to be a worthwhile upgrade at a good price.Get more detail about Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION].

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I am a happy Xp customer, and have no intention of slowing down my PC by installing Vista. But guess what? Not only did they not come out with a new version, the old one recently stopped working, and a popup appears telling me that I must install MSN software to make it work!

So I agreed to install MSN software, then discovered I had to be a paying MSN subscriber. SOOOOO....like a sucker, I upgraded to the paid Hotmail subscription. But that wasn't good enough.

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I also used the freeware application called Handbrake to convert the DVD files or .vob files to XviD within the .avi container.

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I also captured the video with the quality setting set to 15 (max) and bitrate adjusted to record 1hr 40 minutes at a time.

I do not have the fastest PC. I have a pentium 4 3.4ghz and 2gb ram. WinXP.
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I can now use the digital video to make still pictures for prints and all sorts of neat stuff.

For anyone who might be interested in the freeware handbrake app that program does work well but I have read newer version of it will not be supporting output to the popular divx or xvid formats. The software is being designed to support mainly mpeg4 and H.264 output which is even newer stuff for High Def video.

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Finally, the best thing about the original Creative Suite over CS2 is the LACK of Adobe Bridge. That horrible app is a resource hog and takes the place of Photoshop's old file browser. People should avoid CS2 if only because of that programming abomination.

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This is a collection of iTunes 3, iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, and iDVD 3 that Apple offers on all their latest machines with Superdrive installed. All but iDVD 3 are available as downloads from the Apple website, but it is worth the $...or whatever to get them altogether and include the iDVD 3. The iDVD 3 is not available as a download because of its size (>1.3 gig) Each of the four programs is good, but the seamless combination of the four (five including iPod) makes this system an easy to learn combination. After looking for almost a year and a half at different software/hardware combinations for editing and converting (to digital for DVD), I decided on the Mac and the iLife package. There are certainly more powerful individual programs available on both the PC and Mac platforms, but this combination beats everything else that I looked at for ease of use and simplicity in learning. I am very pleased with my decision.Get more detail about iLife [OLDER VERSION].

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This website in particular addresses accessibility for people with photosensitive and pattern sensitive epilepsy who have seizures triggered by blinking / flashing / scrolling / etc. content.

I purchased Adobe CS3 but I had accessibility problems that Adobe would not even respond to. ( this is after downloading all of the product manuals and looking at them carefully to see if the product was accessible before I purchased it ). So, over $1800 down the drain.

I then purchased MS Expression Studio. I was able to disable some of the more obnoxious features.

Unfortunately, it uses those particularly obnoxious progress bars ( the determinate ones that flash across the screen when you do something non-trivial ). These cause such bad seizures ( complex or simple partial ) that I am totally miserable using the product.

Microsoft is totally incompetent in this area. I have the identical problem with Visual Studio. As software projects evolve in size, I reached a point where these progress bars were appearing regularly and I had to give up on the project about 22,000 lines as I was overwhelmed by the seizures.

From what I am now seeing, I will have the same problem with Microsoft Expression - I will get to a point where the project gets too large and I can no longer maintain it.

You shouldn't use these progress bars unless a significant amount of processing time is required
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2) Obviously, you like to know what is going on, if anything. A non-animated hourglass that appears, say, after one second ( this time could be user specified as well ) and a progress bar after, say, 10 seconds
3) A progress bar that only appears after a specified period of time and only updates at specified intervals ( say after 10 seconds and then every 10 seconds )

Microsoft: Accessibility is the LAW.

Try making all your products accessible ( currently none of them are ). Your software makes people sick, it disables them, it destroys their lives ( try Vista for lack of accessibility )

Additionally, there is a bug in the software that prevents ANY products from being unlocked ( it will not accept the product key for the rest of the studio )

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Accessibility is the law. It was until the Republicans came along ...





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I paid good money for this to run on my iMac 10.4.x and it crashes after using it awhile. I've lost many edits like this. No one seems to have the first clue why it doesn't work. It's just a faulty program. I'm pretty much turned off of Adobe so I don't recommend anything they make. Any company that produces trash and doesn't fix it isn't worth doing business with.Get more detail about Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac) [OLD VERSION].

National Geographic's Photo Gallery Immediately

This software is full of beautiful photographs that are perfect for nature blogs, cards, and many other purposes. I am using them in my blogging along with a few other programs. Of all the ones I have tried these have the clearest and highest quality photos.

The negative is that the theme is so limited, they have 3000 photos, but they are all nature or nature related so there is a limit to what you can do with them.


Liz Calamusa
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Custom Cakes and Beyond

Treats for people and their pets - all freshly made to order and with no unrecognizable ingredients :)
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Mask Pro 4 Best Quality

If you need to pull things from and image and want to minimize the time you spend then this program is well worth your consideration. Sure, the Adobe editors have "background erasers" and Mask Pro goes miles further in allowing you to specify what to include/reject and how it will be rendered.

To be effective this is not quite automatic. However, after you learn a few simple adjustment settings you'll be able to erase backgrounds and still leave things like wisps of hair and transparent objects like glasses. To help there is extensive documentation and on-line videos which are available at no additional charge.

I've spent time evaluating different software packages that are dedicated to pulling images from a chroma key background (a solid color that is different from anything in the image, typically green or blue). Mask Pro 4 is now my favorite choice for even that specialized activity.

Best of all, you can go to the manufacturer web site .(Amazon won't let me post the URL) and download a free 30-trial of this programs to see for yourself. Please be sure if you do download the demo to also spend the time needed to go through the provided instructional videos. That way you'll be able to appreciate how well Mask Pro does what it does!Get more detail about Mask Pro 4.

Adobe Contribute CS4 Upgrade [OLD VERSION] Get it now!

If you design website with Dreamweaver (works with non-Dreamweaver sites, but without Dreamweaver's integrated templates capability that locks portions of the page) that others will need to edit...AND you don't want them to break it, then Contribute is the product for you!

Allows you set user permissions that control what a user can edit, how they can edit a page, how they (and if they) can add images, whether they can publish or their draft needs reviewed, and saves rollback copies so any damage can be undone!

The user interface is easy and user-friendly - the user browses the site they wish to edit (and have permission to do so) and then edits the page. Simple.

This works best for the editor of a site created and maintained by Dreamweaver. And, it will make every Dreamweaver designer happier, healthier, and allow for the opportunity to spend your time making money designing a new site as opposed to the drudgery of continually editing an old site.

This is a great solution for non-profit clients who want to be able to update at will, but have too small a budget to afford a full web application design or can't afford to pay a web designer to continually make changes and updates to the content.Get more detail about Adobe Contribute CS4 Upgrade [OLD VERSION].

Magazine Cover 3 - Digital Overlays Buy Now

I Rex A Jernigan am very pleased with my order of the Magazine cover 3 overlays.It will make gift giving so much more simple and dont have to leave home and wait in long lines doing a lot of shopping.I can do this in my spare time and it makes a great gift for any occasion.It makes a great gift for all ages and all genders.Its a gift that people will remember and treasure.If someone really wanted they could even turn this into a small business.Thank you all very much for the magazine covers and hope you come out with some new ones soon because I look forward to purchasing more in the future.Again thank you very much. Rex A JerniganGet more detail about Magazine Cover 3 - Digital Overlays.

PhotoImpact® 7.0 Order Now

Ulead's PhotoImpact series is one of the best on the market! It seriously competes with Photoshop, gives MANY tubes, objects, brushes, templates and won't break your wallet!

Photo-manipulation is easy, intuitive buttons & commands, exceptional output and is not only a terrific program for beginners but advanced users as well.
This program allows you to use plug-ins from nearly every other program out there.

I've used many photo-editing programs and none of them come close to this one.

Please check their website to see examples and download a demo; it's really worth it.

It's my all-time favorite for all my projects, web-designs, scrapbooks and more!

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ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6 Decide Now

After using photo studio 5.5 for a couple of years I had to update to Photo Studio 6 after Installing Windows 7. (Win 7 is a must for those using digital photo or camcorder work.) 6.0 is the worst upgrade of any software I have used. It is in cropping that it fails. I crop my 4x3 into 16x9 10x8 and several other precise images.If you don't crop your images then you'll be ok with 6.0.
Pro:
It now displays preview items larger if you're less than full scan. Big Deal!
There are improvements in rotating images and several other minor improvements.
Con:
5.5 right click had these needed commands:
cut, copy, actual view, fit in window, zoom in, and zoom out (but needed crop).
6.0 right click has these needed commands:
crop and zoom to (which is in percentage and not as useful, will not display fit in window.DUMB.
5.5 when you select image using left click, size of image is shown in position box.
6.0 position box removed which makes it harder to crop images. WHY? DUMB! For my use, this was a disaster! 5.5 is 5 stars and 6.0 is 2 stars.
If you do not have Windows 7, then you will find 5.5 is a great basic program and at $17.95 on Amazon lots of bang for the buck. Windows 7 users will pay $ 74.99. Go elsewhere.
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PhotoPlus X2 Digital Studio Right now

Not easy to use! I still have it in my computer, but not using it. It has many faetures, which are for average person useless, but missing many basic features frequently needed! Cropp and cut and others. I have a Vista Home Premium 64 bits and no problems there.Get more detail about PhotoPlus X2 Digital Studio.