Corel Painter IX.5
Although this upgrade is less than astounding, Painter is still the best choice if you're serious about digital painting.
7/6/2006
LightZone 1.2 for Windows
LightZone 1.2 can't compare with Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom as a complete solution for serious photographers.
5/16/2006
Preclick Gold Photo Organizer
Preclick Gold is undoubtedly the best photo organizer for PC novices, and more experienced users may like it as well.
3/29/2006
Canon Pixma iP5200R Photo Printer
The Canon Pixma iP5200R is one of the fastest ink jet printers available, and it includes such conveniences as two paper trays, duplexing, and both wired and wireless network support.
3/6/2006
Olympus P-11
The Olympus P-11 delivers the best speed we've yet seen from a dedicated photo printer, high-quality output when printing from a camera, and a notably small footprint.
3/3/2006
Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 964
The Dell Photo All-In-One Printer 964 is slow for a printer at this price point, but it offers all the features you need in a home or home office all-in-one.
3/1/2006
Kodak EasyShare v5.2
Though Kodak's EasyShare software isn't as slick as Picasa, it's a good choice if you want something simpler, whether you use a Kodak camera or not.
3/1/2006
Epson Perfection V700 Photo
Aiming to attract serious amateur photographers, the Epson Perfection V700 has comprehensive options for handling film and produces top-quality scans.
2/27/2006
Apple Aperture 1.0.1
Despite its sleek, state-of-the-art interface and many excellent features, Aperture 1.0.1's occasional bugginess and generally inferior RAW image rendering make it hard to recommend to professional photographers.
2/27/2006
SnapJot
SnapJot is an attempt to inject some creativity into photo sharing by letting you add text, photos, and videos, as well as open up your online albums so other people can contribute.
2/16/2006
Phanfare
Unlike many similar services, Phanfare isn't free, but you'll get what you pay for.
2/15/2006
Kodak EasyShare Photo Printer 500
The Kodak EasyShare photo printer 500 prints high-quality 4- by 6-inch photos at reasonably fast speeds and from a wide range of sources.
2/14/2006
HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner
With HP Scanjet 4890 Photo Scanner, working with film and photographic prints is easy, but scan quality lacks.
2/14/2006
Canon Selphy CP510 Compact Photo Printer
The Canon Selphy CP510 Compact Photo Printer offers both a low initial cost and a low cost per print, along with excellent speed and high-quality photos at up to 4 by 8 inches.
1/25/2006
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
It's not as strong as Adobe's offering, but it costs a lot less.
1/18/2006
ACDSee Pro Photo Manager
ACDSee Pro Photo Manager adds significant new features to ACDSee 8, making it a worthwhile upgrade for professional photographers who seek a complete workflow solution.
1/11/2006
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom seems like it will evolve into an excellent workflow solution for professional digital photographers.
1/9/2006
PhotoPlus 10 Studio Pack
PhotoPlus 10 Studio Pack disappoints in its meager options for sharing your digital photos with others.
12/20/2005
PhotoImpact 11
PhotoImpact 11 adds a few enhancements to the package's powerful image editor.
12/20/2005
Sony Cyber-shot DSC N1
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC N1 is a unique ultracompact that combines good shooting and photo viewing.
12/15/2005
FilmLoop
FilmLoop's ticker-like interface is wonderfully addictive. Give it a try, and you may not give it up.
12/9/2005
DxO Optics Pro 3.0
DxO Optics Pro 3.0 contains almost every tool you need to correct for lens aberrations and other flaws captured in a digital image.
12/9/2005
Nokia N90
This powerful camera phone is just too unwieldy to be practical.
12/4/2005
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 has a striking design, incorporates innovative features, and takes great pictures, but all that still can't justify such a high price.
12/1/2005
Kodak EasyShare V550
The Kodak EasyShare V550 is a very good buy, especially if you value a large LCD and a viewfinder. It's small, stylish, and extremely fast.
11/30/2005
AOL Pictures
If you aren't already wedded to a photo-sharing service, you should definitely give AOL Pictures a try.
11/30/2005
TagWorld
If you like deli.cio.us or Flickr, you'll love TagWorld.
11/9/2005
ACDSee 8 Photo Manager
Professionals and prosumers should love the detailed management features of ACDSee 8 Photo Manager.
11/8/2005
PhotoDex ProShow Producer
Useful but expensive tool for professional videographers.
10/12/2005
Ulead CD & DVD PictureShow 4
Easy-to-use tool for quickly creating attractive slide shows.
10/12/2005
Zoto
Despite a few navigation issues, Zoto trumps all other image banks with its generous, ad-free storage, sharing, and blogging tools.
10/12/2005
Magix PhotoStory on CD & DVD 4.0
Magix PhotoStory is an okay offering, but others (namely Microsoft PhotoShow 3 and PictureShow) do more.
10/12/2005
Canon CanoScan LiDE 25
The Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 is a no-frills package, offering relatively slow scanning and bundled with only a low-end photo editor and a special-edition OCR program.
10/10/2005
Epson Perfection 3490 Photo
The Epson Perfection 3490 Photo flatbed scanner produces high-quality photo print scans and reasonable-quality film scans at a record low price.
10/2/2005
Epson Perfection 3590 Photo
The photo-centric 3590 does a good job on prints, a generally acceptable job on film, and makes scanning 35-mm negatives particularly easy.
10/2/2005
Epson Perfection 4490 Photo
If you have a large store of 35-mm and 2.25-inch film you want to digitize, it's one of your better flatbed choices right now.
9/29/2005
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
If we could only have one camera for all our photo and video needs, this would be on our short list. But the FZ-30's price is getting up into the price range of D-SLRs.
9/14/2005
Octave Multipod 5 in 1
The Multipod is mighty handy for those who travel light.
9/14/2005
Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe Edition
If you're a beginning photographer who needs an image-management program with light image editing, Corel Photo Album 6 may suit your needs.
9/8/2005
Epson StoryTeller Photo Book Creator
The easy-to-use Epson StoryTeller Photo Book Creator provides everything you need to create a well-designed keepsake book of photos—except a printer, ink, and the photos themselves.
9/7/2005
Samsung Digimax U-CA 5
Good recycle time. Good image quality in daylight shots.
8/30/2005
Samsung Digimax V700
This is a mediocre camera in a number of ways, and the problems with the autoexposure should probably have kept it off the shelves altogether.
8/17/2005
Nikon D2X
The Nikon D2X is perfect for the enthusiast with professional aspirations who wants to tap into one of the best D-SLR systems available.
8/12/2005
Shutterfly Collections
With Collections, Shutterfly has upped the ante among online photo finishers by adding a free and easy way for individuals and groups to post and share albums online.
8/8/2005
PhotoShow Deluxe
Extremely powerful yet wonderfully easy to use.
8/8/2005
Canon PowerShot S2 IS
The PowerShot S2 IS boasts good picture quality, but the small LCD and poor electronic viewfinder make it problematic for use in bright light.
7/13/2005
PrimeFoto
The PrimeFoto's goal is to make it easy to back up memory cards to CD-R or RW, but its terse directions and lack of an onboard LCD display make backing up tougher than it should be.
6/28/2005
Nikon Coolpix 7900
The Nikon Coolpix 7900's innovative scene modes provide an easy way for beginners and intermediates to take good images, though performance wasn't always ideal.
6/27/2005
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
The suite is now a contender, at least when it comes to organizing and sharing photos.
6/21/2005
Sony Photo Vault
The Sony Photo Vault is a portable mini-CD recorder that stores images from your USB- or Memory Stick-equipped digital camera and can display them on TV.
6/9/2005
Toshiba TDP-S25U
Dual analog inputs and monitor pass-through. Good on-screen menu system. Good contrast measurement.
6/1/2005
Epson Perfection 4990 Photo
The Epson Perfection 4990 Photo does a terrific job scanning photos, and it handles slides better than most flatbed scanners.
5/29/2005
Pacific Image Electronics PrimeFilm 3650 Pro3
The Pacific Image Electronics PrimeFilm 3650Pro3 makes the mechanics of scanning relatively easy, with an automatic feed for strips of film and a slot for slides.
5/12/2005
GalleryPlayer
View high-quality, high-res paintings and photos—never available digitally before—on your Media Center PC, as a Spotlight application.
5/4/2005
Pacific Image Electronics PrimeFilm 3650u
The Pacific Image Electronics PrimeFilm 3650u scans a single slide or frame at a time. Positioning a strip of film correctly takes some care, so scanning lots of images from film in one session takes patience.
4/20/2005
Pacific Image Electronics PowerSlide 3600
The Pacific Image Electronics PowerSlide 3600, with a 50-slide magazine, can prescan or scan the entire magazine with a single command.
4/20/2005
Epson L-500V
This sleek little beauty performs very well, shooting accurate, detailed pictures. Its 2.5-inch LCD is gorgeous—in the right lighting—but the camera lacks an optical viewfinder.
4/11/2005
Fujifilm FinePix F450
Shaped like a Klondike bar, the Fujifilm FinePix F450 is on the smaller end of the ultracompact scale.
3/29/2005
Canon PowerShot SD500 Digital Elph
The SD500 is a versatile, accurate, fun 7MP compact camera that performed very well on our tests and will appeal to a broad section of shooters. We like it so much, we've awarded it our Editors' Choice.
3/29/2005
Aleratec Digital Photo Copy Cruiser Plus
The Copy Cruiser Plus is an enormous improvement over the original Copy Cruiser.
3/7/2005
Plustek OpticFilm 7200
The Plustek OpticFilm 7200 claims a 7,200-pixels-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution, but it doesn't truly deliver.
2/17/2005
Photoleap
If your friends and family are willing to install this slick, simple application, sending photos could hardly be easier.
2/16/2005
Picasa 2.0
Picasa 2.0 ranks with the leading photo-management tools, including Adobe Photoshop Album and ACDSee.
1/18/2005
Qurio 1.3
Qurio 1.3 is a decent option for photo-sharing novices.
1/12/2005
Microsoft Photo Story 3
Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a truly significant upgrade, offering dramatic improvements to almost every feature.
1/10/2005
Canon PowerShot A95
Replacing the PowerShot A80 in Canon's vast arsenal, the PowerShot A95 is a powerful 5MP compact camera and a good buy; point-and-shooters won't soon outgrow it, and it will also satisfy more advanced users.
12/20/2004
Canon PowerShot S70
If you're looking for a solid camera that takes excellent photos, but don't want the heft or expense of a model like the Canon PowerShot G6, the compact PowerShot S70 is a very good choice.
12/6/2004
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