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Adobe
Photoshop Album review
March 10th, 2003
in just minutes. Album is very good also in not creating duplicates of any images too and shuffling miscellaneous images around into different groups doesn’t mean you have to physically moving the file from one folder to another, with Album. When you first import images into Photoshop Album, all the images are initially organized by their creation date.
If you have a digital camera that has a movie mode, you can also import and organize them as well. Pretty amazing those Adobe folks are.
If your professional or serious photographer, Photoshop Album preserves the EXIF data including aperture, shutter speed, dates etc., when you download directly from the digital camera.
Going
to the Well -
All your images are stored in a window Adobe calls the Well, an “assembly”
area if you will. From the Well you can view, move and organize the
photo collection. You can also select images to edit from the Well,
but more on that later.
Photoshop
Album "Well" image archive
If you’ve just imported your entire HDD or a full CD ROM, you can narrow the viewing of selected pictures by using the photos creation date with “Timeline”, a graphical slide bar located under the menu at the top. It’s a nifty way to also see quickly when a group of photo where created because the slide bar acts like a horizontal calendar indicating the month and year the images were created.
As I mentioned before, you can organize your image catalog using the simple Tag function; which allows you to choose or create a category, create a new Tag and then drag it to any one image or group of pictures.
You can actually assign
a number of Tags to any one image or groups of images while working from
the Well. When you’re done Tagging images, place a check mark next
to the Tag and Photoshop
Album will sort all matching images.
Photoshop
Album Tag examples
If you’re the budding serious photographer, Album is great for organizing you images for printing, whether it’s individual pictures or a whole contact sheet for planning your printing later. You can also pick a group of images to resize to a like size as a package.
Photoshop Album also has the capability to learn as you use it, remembering things like what images you share by email, if you’ve already shared them and whom you share them with. Very nice, better than a personal secretary.
Fix
your mistakes
While reviewing your images in the Well, you can also fix those photography
boo-boos like red-eye, lighting and poorly framed pictures. Unfortunately
you are not going to be able to replace the head you cut off of your best
friend with sloppy framing in that Cancun vacation trip.
Photoshop Album gives you a couple choices for image repair and if you also have the new Adobe Photoshop Elements, it will also integrate with that for even more sophisticated picture alterations.
In Photoshop Album you can Single Click Fix, Crop to reframe images, Red Eye Removal, Brightness and Contrast Control, Lighting fixes fill flash and backlighting, and finally Color Saturation.
We tried them all and got varying results depending on how poorly the photo was taken. Red Eye removal works very well, apparently pioneered in PS Elements. In the samples shown here of the Orange County Fairs Automobile Museum, some images with mildly bad lighting were well handled by the auto adjustment of Photoshop Album, the second set needed more customized adjustment with the use of Brightness and Contrast Control, Lighting manual control.
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