The Bottom Line
Pros
- Printed manual, quick tour, instruction panels, and tutorials help you get started.
- Innovative, non-destructive image editing and correction features.
- Quick drag & drop batch processing for image correction, annotation, and effects.
Cons
- Non-standard interface increases initial learning curve.
- Workspace can quickly become cluttered with a multitude of dialog boxes.
- Multiple monitors not supported.
Description
- Photo organizer and editor with innovative tools for non-destructive editing and batch processing.
- Sort your pictures using a folder analogy that isn't linked to your computer's filing system.
- Add multiple descriptors to photos: keywords, captions, copyright info, digicam info, credits, etc.
- Generate Web galleries from 10 stylish templates. Customize text & backgrounds. Built-in FTP upload.
- View images in a slide show, optimize and email images, and print multiple images per page.
- Correct: Crop, rotate, red eye, auto tone & levels, color, brightness, tone, despeckle, sharpen.
- Effects: Colorize, backdrops, soft edges, invert, transparency, smoked glass, find edges, emboss.
- All corrections, effects, and descriptions can be applied to multiple images quickly by drag & drop.
- All correction and effect settings remain editable and never permanently alter the source image.
- For Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP. 30-day trial and free basic edition available.
Guide Review - StudioLine Photo 2
StudioLine lets you organize your pictures into folders which are not tied to the folders on your hard disk. It's not too hard to learn with on-screen hints to walk you through the features at every stage, introductory tutorials, and a printed manual in the boxed version. It offers a number of ways to link information to your pictures such as keywords, captions, and notes. It also supports EXIF and IPTC data. All the information you add can be copied to other images easily by drag & drop. StudioLine also offers a number of "always-editable" correction filters and effects which can also be applied/copied in batch mode. It even allows you to open each layer in a Photoshop PSD file as a separate image. You can share your images by printing them, emailing them, or by publishing them as stylish Web galleries. StudioLine also includes integrated CD & DVD burning for backups and archival.
