Adobe Photoshop Album


Questions About Photoshop Album Software



What is Adobe Photoshop Album?
Adobe Photoshop Album gives digital camera owners a simple but powerful way to organize their photo collections and quickly fix basic photo problems — it takes the fuss out of taking and sharing digital photos, and makes it fun instead.

Who needs this product?

Adobe Photoshop Album is for anyone who loves taking pictures, regardless of whether you’ve had a digital camera for five years or five minutes, and regardless of whether you have fifty photographs, or five thousand.

When will Adobe Photoshop Album be available?
Adobe Photoshop Album will be available in early 2003. It will be available in English (UE and IE), French, French Canadian, German, and Japanese. English will be the first language to ship, with the other languages following later in 2003.

How much will Photoshop Album cost?

Photoshop Album will retail for £39.99, $49 U.S., 50 Euros, and 68,000 Yen.

How does Photoshop Album differ from Photoshop Elements?

Adobe Photoshop Album is an easy-to-use digital photo organization and sharing solution for all digital camera owners. Photoshop Elements is an easy-to-use digital photo editing application. The two products complement each other and are so well integrated, you can edit your photos with Elements from within Photoshop Album.

How is Photoshop Album different from the features for organizing photos that came on my operating system (OS) or the package that already came with my digital camera?
• Adobe Photoshop Album is unique in its capabilities at bringing photos into your computer, quickly and easily organizing them in ways that make sense to you, and in sharing your photos with the people you care about – plus it comes to you from the company that has been building proven professional graphic software since 1982 – Adobe Systems.

• Instant organization — A simple way to view, organize, and store a lifetime of photos. Cross-reference and arrange your photos with custom keyword tags. Automatically sort your photos by the date and time information stored in your camera. Photoshop Album is the hub for all of your photos, no matter where the originals are stored.

• Quick fixes and built-in templates to share your photos in creative ways — Photoshop Album comes well stocked with an integrated feature set including fast, easy photo fixing tools, creation wizards for slideshows, greeting cards, and more.

• Create prints online or on your printer, attach photos and creations to e-mail messages, automatically sized to suit the Internet connections available. Include video and audio in your creations, and build Web and 3D Adobe Atmosphere™ galleries in a flash.

• Adobe Reliability — Consistent, unbeatable quality from the makers of Photoshop, the leading digital imaging software for more than a decade.

Why is Adobe taking digital imaging to the home consumer market?
According to recent research from IDC, 14 million digital cameras will ship next year, stimulating the demand for quality photo management software. While there are many companies attempting to produce such tools, Adobe Photoshop Album is the only solution that delivers the same great dependability and quality that professionals have relied on for more than a decade.

What platforms does Adobe Photoshop Album support?
Adobe Photoshop Album runs on Microsoft® Windows® XP, Me, 2000, and 98SE.

How does Photoshop Album integrate with other Adobe products?

Photoshop Album 1.0 offers integration with other Adobe applications and is fully integrated with Adobe Photoshop Elements. Users can jump directly from Photoshop Album to editing a picture in Photoshop Elements, and the changes will appear automatically when the user returns to Photoshop Album.

Can I import video footage from my camcorder into Photoshop Album?
Adobe Photoshop Album supports the .avi, .mov, and .mpg video formats. QuickTime 5.0 or 6.0 is required to play .mov files in the Photoshop Album photo well. Audio and video clips imported from a camcorder can also be used as elements in creating slideshows.

Do people need to own Photoshop Album in order to view the slideshows and projects with animation and sound it creates?
Photoshop Album projects and slideshows are created in the universal Adobe PDF format. They can be viewed on any computer on any platform equipped with free Adobe Acrobat® Reader® 5.1 software. Acrobat Reader is available for download and use without charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/ readstep.html.

What version of EXIF does Photoshop Album support?
Adobe Photoshop Album currently supports version 2.1.