http://bink.nu/newsimgs/Digital%20Image%20Suite.jpgStruggling to manage your ever-growing collection of digital photos? Read our Australian review of Microsoft's solution to the problem.
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 9 combines two imaging applications, MS Digital Image Library 9, which acts as an organiser for your photos and MS Digital Image Pro 9, which is a photo manipulation program. The installation size of the whole suite varies from about 400MB to 1.3GB, depending on the amount of templates and sample images you choose to install.
When you first open Digital Image Library, a wizard launches to find all the photos you want the application to manage. It scans your hard drive and returns folders it considers photo folders and you can deselect folders that are not appropriate. The library acts as a database for your pictures rather than a storage location; it won't change the file structure or move your photos.
Once you have imported your pictures the library presents an Explorer-like interface with a folder pane on the left and the image browser (in thumbnails) on the right. The pane on the left can changed via the view menu so you browse photos by dates and keywords as well as through file folders.
When you take a photo on a digital camera the resulting picture file often contains metadata such as shutter speed and the date/time the photo was taken. Digital Image Library allows you to add to this metadata with captions, keywords and a rating.
To assign a rating you simply click on how many stars (out of five) you want to assign each photo in the preview pane. From here you can also add the keywords and captions that apply to each photo or a selection of photos.
Double-clicking a photo brings it up in a full-screen view where there are a couple of basic controls such as zoom, fit to screen, rotate and print. You can also select a set of thumbnails to show in a slideshows. The transition between photos is smooth, and a speed from one second to one minute can be set for each to display. Continue at source
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