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Before buying this product go to Adobe Photoshop Album user forums. There has been much disatisfaction with version 1.0 and the jury is still out on 2.0.

For me the biggest flaw is the inability to make good quality VCDs let alone DVD quality. VCDs I have made are low quality with blurred images. I only use the product for email of slideshows using the .pdf Acrobat Reader format--that is excellent.

PS Album 2.0 is an easy, very basic program. Relative to others it is slow and childish. You must "import" photos before you can view them, a nuisance others avoid. You cannot combine categories, e.g., to select all "Vacation" photos which are also "2003". Among the heavily promoted album programs, ACDSee is a better choice although its current version has a few annoying bugs.

Adobe Photoshop Album is simple and straightforward to use. In a word, it is very intuitive. That cannot often be said about software. It can do basic photo editing, but Photoshop Elements or similar program is needed for in depth editing. But if all you do is crop and remove red-eye, this will do it. I would highly recommend to anyone.

I would avoid this software. Download Picasa for free try out and see how it works. I have had nothing but problems with this version of photoshop album. I purchased it because I had used 1.0 and it worked pretty good. I have had lots of troubles with colors being different on the thumbnails fron the true colors. Lots of bugs and crashing. You must pay for support also - doens't seem fair.

I'm an unhappy camper. I used ver. 1 and put much of my digital library into it. Now I upgrade (upgrade?) and it doesn't know how to sync with that which it created before. I don't know how the other features perform, because I'm still futzing trying to get my photos in sync with it! Shame on you Adobe, shame. By the way, how do you plan on paying me, one of your unwitting beta testers?