Publisher's Description
From ArcSoft:
Powerful image editing tools with tons of creative effects.
Here are some powerful features:
1. Advanced photo editing tools at your fingertips Offers an array of advanced photo editing tools to help you edit and enhance digital photos. Essential tools include Simple Selection, Magnetic Lasso, Photo Cloning, Photo Enhancement, Multi-Layer Support, Brush and Stamp, Text Layer, Transform, and Print. Advanced correction tools include Auto-Exposure, Auto-De-Noise, Record Macro, Scratch Removal, and Equalization. Auto-align function is provided to help with shaky hands and blurred photos.
2. Add incredible detail, colors, and clarity with HDR High dynamic range (HDR) combines the same three images with different exposure levels into one eye-popping, vibrant, and detailed image. Additional tools are provided to manually enhance your photo: Smoothness, Detail, Saturation, Contrast, and Brightness.
3. Supports RAW formats, large image files, and 48-bit images Supports importing and editing popular RAW file formats by Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Adobe (DNG), Sony, Kodak, Olympus, and more. Large image files up to 30,000 x 30,000 pixels and 48-bit images captured from your scanner are also supported.
4. Smart editing tools and more Extract an object from its background with the Magic-Cut function. Apply Face-Beautify tools to look younger. Set up a macro to easily apply and process many photos at once using pre-recorded effect(s).
5. Manage and print Provides a powerful browser to help you browse, search, and organize files. Embedded with the functions of tags, ratings, and convenient calendar view. A professional print module comes with easy-to-use customized templates. Help you arrange photos for printing in different sizes on one or many pages.
What's new in this version: Version 6.0.0.170 includes:
- Jaw-dropping colors and details with HDR
- Includes smart editing tools
- Supports RAW format
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"Great, Once"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
Was great.
Cons
No longer great.
Summary
Not only was the old version (4.0, I think) excellent, it was free. 6.0 charges you ($70.00) for an inferior product. If you really just need a "PhotoShop Light," search around for another free alternative - there're plenty out there.
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"v6 ruins a great product!"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
One or two nice tools lacking in Photosh*p
Cons
Some nice tools from v5 ditched!
Very slow
Crashy!
Dubious vendor behaviourSummary
Been a long-term user of v5 - how I WISH I could reinstall that old version. It worked like a dream - whereas v6 is a bit of a disaster. v5 was actually my programme of choice for photo editing, it was a beaut!
Since upgrading, the performance (which I never noticed before) is appallingly slow. Opening a decent sized file might take minutes now instead of seconds. Quite why this is I cannot comprehend. The user session also gets progressively slower and you need to exit and restart periodically to keep things moving. Again, this just didn't happen before.
Some terrible bugs - for instance, if your marquee goes outside the current field of view (say when drawing around a large object), a fairly standard thing to do, it will CRASH every time - nothing more infuriating.
Saving files can be very slow - not unusual to sit staring at Windows Task Manager for minutes on end waiting for it to churn through the gears.
Full Screen view - a really neat feature in v5 - has disappeared - why? The ability to flip individual layers to a mirror image - again disappeared, why??
Colour editing is much worse than before - particularly handling of red tones, subtracting red tones leaves nasty artefacts all over the image, this didn't happen before!!
Last but not least - thanks guys, you updated red-eye removal to make it "automatic", presumably some kind of dumbing down. Problem is, it MISSES red eye every single time. "Red eye was not detected". OK no problem, use the manual red eye tool. But unbelievably, there is no manual option. Something I would expect to see as a basic.
Just as the icing on the cake - Arcsoft will put all sorts of hidden processes running in the background eg. auto updaters, auto-checkers-for-auto-updaters, tamper with these at your peril - I did and it killed my license key!
Very disappointing - can we have v5 back please? -
"arcsoft photostudio 6.0 review"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
easy to use,Auto Enhance is good
Cons
no hardware acceleration support, Cant uninstall,grossly over priced
Summary
there are another softwares have more features and cheap then arcsoft photostudio
i.e ?Photo Editorx?
Visit looking for it.
www.photo-editing-software.anlatbana.net -
"Grossly over priced, for what it can do."
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
It was great ,........ten years ago.
Cons
Little capability; out of date; grossly over priced.
Summary
See 1., 2., 3., and 4.
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"CAN NOT UNINSTALL"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
Unknown .
Cons
Can not uninstall. No option to uninstall in program; nothing happens when using Control Panel Uninstall; does not show up in Windows Install Clean-up. If ArcSoft philosophy is to force it on you, I do not want it.
Summary
Installation is irreversible.
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"Non-complicated & Richly-featured Photo Editor"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
Easy to use & not complicated; many photo editing tools; Auto Enhance automatically optimizes images perfectly; Face Beautify works well on faces; compatible with some photoshop plugins
Cons
3D Text plugin that was available in version 5 is missing; no hardware acceleration support
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"Can't Uninstall"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
none that I can see of
Cons
won't uninstall
Summary
Is there a trick to uninstalling? No uninstall process shows up, and in various program, it doesn't even show up as an installed program. I think I have 3.0, on the box, but says 5.x.x.x when I hit 'about'. Not sure I ever registered, but I did buy at Staples.
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""Next best thing to photoshop." That's right."
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
Easy to use, comprehesive set of tools.
Cons
I made the mistake of upgrading from from v5.5 which is just as good.
Summary
Despite making a full payment, this reverted to a trial edition after a few days.
No reply to email.
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"Next best thing to photoshop."
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
I used this FREE with ME product since 2000 to easily change the liighting and definition, color tone , saturation, lowlights and highlights of old family photographs and 100 year old collectible postcards. It is like setting up a color TV.
Cons
It isn't free anymore.
Summary
They have a 20 dollar discount right now, I'm going to have to jump on it.
I/ve already tried it out on 7, works just like it used to on the old machine. Of course, the trial version won't let you save at full resolution.
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"Easy to use, does most of what PhotoShop can good price"
Version: ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6.0
Pros
Its easy to use, the program is so similar to many other editing programs. Has just what I need for my photo editing and the price is reasonable.
Cons
Haven't found any cons yet.
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