CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro 5.8

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Color us moderately impressed. At its $30 price point. CodedColor's photo-organization, editing, and sharing capabilities are hard to beat. The image editor includes basics such as photo cropping, red-eye removal, and adjustments for color, sharpness, and brightness. It also provides a number of wilder effects and filters. You can organize your photos in catalogs or access them one at a time through the file tree. The program includes a basic slide-show mode. If you want to share your photos, you can create a customized online album. There are plenty of unexpected goodies too, such as batch-conversion, multimedia support, EXIF editing, and automatic antialiasing on zoom. However, stability is a bit dodgy; we experienced some program hangs. Also, the interface, while colorful and neatly organized, is sometimes unintuitive. We wish the creators had bundled a step-by-step tutorial for beginners. Overall, CodedColor PhotoStudio is a capable option for intermediate to advanced digital photographers. Just give it a good tryout before buying.

Publisher's description

From 1STEIN :

CodedColor PhotoStudio has a user friendly interface includes features like photo editing & printing, Web album galleries, slide shows, photo management & cataloging, custom sorting, IPTC & EXIF editor, thumbnail generation, resize & resample images, jp2000, batch conversion, database keyword searching, red eye removal, color / sharpness / brightness & contrast correction, artefacts removal, clone brush, scanner & TWAIN import, screen capture, lossless JPEG rotation, gamma correction, print ordering and screenshows with many transition effects, watermark text, image annotations, panorama stitch & animation, video capture, PDF album export, photo layouts, collages, frames, shadows, histograms, automatic white balance, skype photo sharing.

Version 5.8 includes Drag & Drop in Explorer now with thumb cursor and insert indicator, Database cleanup now detects invalid or asynchronous thumbs, Explorer now opens much faster, if the user has many entries in many catalogs, Thumbs for multimedia and RAW files are now generated much faster.

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