ArcSoft PhotoStudio for Windows

User Reviews

• Not what it used to be

  jdiddleyMarch 19, 2014

  Pros

  Buying this software prevented me from wasting money buying things I enjoy.

  Cons

  It has nothing to offer that you can't find with free ware. Don't waste your money on this version. It is NOT like Arcsoft's Previous Photostudio. It is simplified and is missing many of the old features that made it an okay substitute for Adobe Photoshop.

  Summary

  This version has taken away many useful tools and features that I frequently utilized in the previous version. For the price I was charged I expected even more photoshop-like qualities only to find this simplified (hardly functional for what I need) version. Arcsoft has taken a turn in the wrong direction and changed this once useful software into to beginner friendly software and charged more money (That's a BIG No-No!). I would have happily have stayed with the previous version but it is no longer compatible with newer computers and Arcsoft dropped support for it quite a long time ago. :(

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• Awesome Product

  cheryl-azJuly 31, 2013

  Pros

  I love this program. 1. Great to use for scanning pictures 2. Awesome auto enhance 3. Great tools to tweak/fix picture 4. I adore the tools for restoring phtoh's works as well if not better than Photoshop Elements 5 Has really fun special effects.

  Cons

  Charges to use Arcsoft Print Creations

  Summary

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• I have used ArcSoft for years and just upgraded to Win7

  shoffy1March 16, 2012

  Pros

  I used Photo Studio with my Canon 880 scanner and it works wonderfully. The photos are almost better then the original. I let my brother use it and he hand never ween a piece of software/hardware work so well. I wouldn't change a thing

  Cons

  I do not have any cons for Photo Studio

  Summary

  It's a great piece of software. I glad I could upgrade it to Windows 7. It works great.

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• v5- awesome. v6- sucks ass, period.

  vilekyle69December 17, 2011

  Pros

  looks nice

  Cons

  have to relearn everything

  Summary

  Want my familiar old version. Cant even install it my orig disk. Flat out irritates me to have to start over and relearn. Probably wont even waste my time trying. Cya, Arcsoft.

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• Great, Once

  Commando333January 12, 2011

  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!

  MrSoft1967December 28, 2010

  Pros

  One or two nice tools lacking in Photosh*p

  Cons

  Some nice tools from v5 ditched! Very slow Crashy! Dubious vendor behaviour

  Summary

  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?

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• Grossly over priced, for what it can do.

  donnagelAugust 31, 2010

  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

  jrsyanglAugust 18, 2010

  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

  hujan86June 18, 2010

  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

  Summary

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• Can't Uninstall

  BillMass2010April 25, 2010

  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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