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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 08, 2004
- Total Downloads: 106,646
- Downloads last week: 13
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you're looking for an easy way to get all your pictures in one place or to share snapshots with family and friends, BrilliantPhoto is the right tool. The first step is to bring your photos to a single location. BrilliantPhoto will search your hard drive, digital camera, and e-mail in-box for images. The interface is welcoming and modern, with the bulk of the functions devoted to importing and organizing photos. A few quick-fix editing functions also are included. After loading the images, it's time to start adding keywords and splitting your photos into collections based on topics such as People and Things, Events, and Places. The organizational features of this program are top-notch. The program also makes it easy to create slide shows, burn photos to CD, and send photos through your e-mail client. Its efficient design, fast operation, and useful features make BrilliantPhoto perfect for digital-photography buffs and amateur paparazzi who have hundreds of digital photos from every family occasion.Publisher's description
From Brilliant Labs :This is the fast and easy way to manage your digital photos, even if you have thousands. Automatically import photos directly from your digital camera; assign keywords, people, places, and ratings; fix red-eye, blemishes, lighting, and composition problems; and share via e-mail, prints, photo CDs, or the Web. BrilliantPhoto is a fully integrated solution for managing your digital-photo library.
Version 1.2.0.87 lets the user enter his or her license key in a quick-start wizard that comes up on first run rather than having to select a command from the help menu after start-up.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.6 stars out of 6 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BrilliantPhoto 1.2.0.87
"Great version 1, terrible support, seems to be abandonware"
Pros: Excellent UI, makes it VERY easy to "tag" lots of photos with people/places/events, stores that data *inside* the JPEG files using the industry-standard IPTC format (so the "tags" will survive as long as the JPEGs--most programs like this store them in proprietary database instead). Worth the $27 only because *no one* else at the consumer level makes it this easy to store IPTC tags in your JPEGs (Picassa has some IPTC support, but its interface is terrible by comparison and limited to keyword/caption fields).
Cons: The author shut down the support forum, refuses to answer emails, and seems to have given up on the "version 2.0" that was promised many months ago. You can't exclude subdirectories from folder imports. You can't drag a tag to a large preview, only to thumbs.
Several other UI improvements would be nice, and were reported in the forum before the author shut it down.
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Version: BrilliantPhoto 1.2.0.87
"Does not recognize jpg files."
Pros: Nothing
Cons: This program would not recognize jpg files. That is not good for a photo program.
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Version: BrilliantPhoto 1.2.0.87
"The best program I found. -1 star for not being supported any longer."
Pros: Very easy to use and very practical for organizing photos.
I love the ease of noting people, places, or events for each photo. Emailing photos is very easy from this tool. It maintains original picture taken date unlike a more popular program. When this was supported, the web site gave a great lesson on how to use it.
Cons: The only con is that this was abandoned. Had hopes it would be revived but it never happened. I purchased this a while back and still haven't found a better replacement. Most reviews for photo software is for editing rather than my main interest of organizing -- and if anyone can recommend something better than Brilliant Photo, please do. Would have liked a way to export the tag information to be used by a supported program.
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Version: BrilliantPhoto 1.2.0.87
"Great product but now abandonend..."
Pros: Could have been great...
Cons: Shame about the support!
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Version: BrilliantPhoto 1.2.0.87
Summary: I chose Brilliant photo after trying out a number of other image organisers because of its intuitive user interface. You don't have to worry about where the images are kept or what they are called - simply tag them and BP will take care of the rest.... read more >>
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