Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Available for Pre-Order on Amazon.com

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=thoughtsmedia-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/B0009G037A/qid=1119392642/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8__i1_xgl65?v=glance%26s=software%26n=1000' target='_blank'>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=thoughtsmedia-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/B0009G037A/qid=1119392642/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8__i1_xgl65?v=glance%26s=software%26n=1000</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/B0009G037A.jpg" /><br /><br />There's zero information about this product on Amazon.com, other than the price of $89.99. The <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/products.aspx">Microsoft Digital Imaging Products Page</a> is equally lacking in detail, but it must be coming out soon. Version 10 of this product came out in August of last year, so this is slightly less than a year product refresh, which is unusual for Microsoft. I wonder what new features it will have? If you're feeling adverturous, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=thoughtsmedia-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/B0009G037A/qid=1119392642/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8__i1_xgl65?v=glance%26s=software%26n=1000">you can pre-order it</a>. ;-) [Affiliate]

[bleeman]

I was just catching up on my E-mail and one of the articles in my PC Magazine "First Look" message was a review of this product. So you can get some specifics on it here, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1829590,00.asp. From the review it appears most of the work was done in the Library area.

[randalllewis]

I am glad to see this. Thanks Jason, as I want to update my digital editing software. I am probably in the minority here, but I have an earlier version of this Microsoft suite and I have Photoshop Elements 2.0. I find myself using the Microsoft product more often. PS frustrates me. I find I use a couple of tools most often- the sharpening tool (because my Digital Rebel produces softer images than I like) and the clone type tools. I have found MS implementation easier to use than PS 2 and the MS Smart Erase tool is just plain cool. I know PS does much more, and I would like to learn it, but I find I get lost trying to figure out what PS calls stuff and fall back to the MS product.