Visually pleasing with many editing features

Pros: It has a visually attractive interface. Good picture tagging. Great picture editing ability. Can generate a slide show on CD. While you can automatically reorder your pictures in several ways, manual reordering can also be done - with beautiful visual effects! Fast lookup when doing picture searches. Keywords can be attached to pictures for fast lookup. You can play a folder of MP3 files in the background.

Cons: No flexible zooming, e.g., no ability to do a point or box zoom using the mouse. The picture caption display is unreliable (sometimes it displays and sometimes it doesn't). The font, size, or positions of captions can't be changed. There are no transition effects, although there is a nice fade between pictures. The picture background can't be changed. Limited EXIF picture camera data. No EXIF picture text data (Image Description, Photographer, User Comment). No choice in assigning pictures to layout boxes when printing them, and only 6 layouts available. An audio file can't be associated with

a specific picture.

Posted: 16-Feb-2005 02:24:00 PM

Strong in its ability to convert file formats, weak in its ability to display

Pros: Can read a huge number of picture file formats and convert them.

Cons: No installation program provided. When browsing pictures, there is no way to go to a specific picture. No manual reordering. You can't pan with the mouse. When viewing a picture in "full screen" mode, you can't pan, zoom, or go to any other picture without exiting that mode. No picture information is available. No captioning can be done. There are no transition effects. There is no audio ability. Printing a picture within the program is not possible.

Posted: 17-Feb-2005 11:26:13 AM

Basic slide show building program with several drawbacks

Pros: Some nice "style" effects (e.g., falling snowflakes). Background music can be played.

Cons: I didn't like the way it took over the entire screen. There appeared to be no automatic picture ordering. Even though "full screen" display is used, the pictures only take up half of this area. Limited picture navigation in "controls" mode, no navigation in slide show mode. I was unable to get a picture's caption to display along with the picture. Can't select your own background music in the evaluation version. No foreground music.

Posted: 01-Mar-2005 01:49:54 PM