Customer Rating: 
Summary: Awesome and handy
Comment: I bought PSE for enhancing my home photos. Its a very nice and handy product. I like and use the magic extractor feature the most. I should say, that is the primary feature for which I bought PSE. I've always liked PS and PaintShop Pro equally - but bought this at a juncture when PSE 5.0 was out there and the price for this previous version was low - also that there are not many features between v5 and v4 that I need.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Compatibility isssue
Comment: I took a class to learn how to use the product. Even with good instructors I found the software complicated. Now I've made peace with it and would like to transfer it from my laptop XP (that I took to class)to my new Dell Desktop running Vista. Nope. Adobe offers a patch to make 5.0 compatible but not 4.0 and apparently does not plan to do so.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Slow
Comment: Compared to Photoshop Elements 2.0, this product is 5x slower. Not sure why a company would ship a product that regresses speed as this one does. It must have been something that benefitted Adobe, because it sure does not benefit me. Inexplicable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A must have
Comment: This is the next step up for the more serious digital editor. I have been using this software for the last year and I still haven't used all the cool features. Slide shows are real nice, especially if you take pictures for a soccer, or any other team. Adding the music to the slideshow puts on the finishing touch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm happy with my purchase...
Comment: At first I thought the product was a little overwhelming. All of the little little icons and functions seemed the same, but I worked my way through the manual and figured them out one by one.
I like the photoediting aspect of the software. You can do a quick-edit, too if the photo-editor seems too complicated. Both the quick edit and photoedit are highly nuanced, which is great if you don't want to make major changes to your photo's color, contrast or shadow.
You can alter the photos in lots of different ways and the effect can be surprisingly artistic. Once you get the maneuvering of the first few tools down, it is easy to learn the rest.
I have had good luck scanning photos and drawn pictures and layering the two together with the layering feature.
Problems: The main file gets HUMONGOUS and is slow to load. I think sometimes files get lost-and then will show up later as two files.
This is my first photo-editing software and overall I am happy with it. :)
Summary: Awesome and handy
Comment: I bought PSE for enhancing my home photos. Its a very nice and handy product. I like and use the magic extractor feature the most. I should say, that is the primary feature for which I bought PSE. I've always liked PS and PaintShop Pro equally - but bought this at a juncture when PSE 5.0 was out there and the price for this previous version was low - also that there are not many features between v5 and v4 that I need.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Compatibility isssue
Comment: I took a class to learn how to use the product. Even with good instructors I found the software complicated. Now I've made peace with it and would like to transfer it from my laptop XP (that I took to class)to my new Dell Desktop running Vista. Nope. Adobe offers a patch to make 5.0 compatible but not 4.0 and apparently does not plan to do so.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Slow
Comment: Compared to Photoshop Elements 2.0, this product is 5x slower. Not sure why a company would ship a product that regresses speed as this one does. It must have been something that benefitted Adobe, because it sure does not benefit me. Inexplicable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A must have
Comment: This is the next step up for the more serious digital editor. I have been using this software for the last year and I still haven't used all the cool features. Slide shows are real nice, especially if you take pictures for a soccer, or any other team. Adding the music to the slideshow puts on the finishing touch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm happy with my purchase...
Comment: At first I thought the product was a little overwhelming. All of the little little icons and functions seemed the same, but I worked my way through the manual and figured them out one by one.
I like the photoediting aspect of the software. You can do a quick-edit, too if the photo-editor seems too complicated. Both the quick edit and photoedit are highly nuanced, which is great if you don't want to make major changes to your photo's color, contrast or shadow.
You can alter the photos in lots of different ways and the effect can be surprisingly artistic. Once you get the maneuvering of the first few tools down, it is easy to learn the rest.
I have had good luck scanning photos and drawn pictures and layering the two together with the layering feature.
Problems: The main file gets HUMONGOUS and is slow to load. I think sometimes files get lost-and then will show up later as two files.
This is my first photo-editing software and overall I am happy with it. :)