StudioLine Photo Basic 3.50.52

'StudioLine Photo Basic' is a program that helps you manage and edit your photos. Like in any other editing program, you start by importing your photos. After this, you can start editing and managing your photos. You need a very big monitor or more than one, because the program offers you many features and you need most of them handy on the user interface. If you have a multi-head graphics adapter, you can connect more than one monitor to your workstation to gain productivity.

In order to support StudioLine, set the display properties so that the Windows desktop extends to all monitors. Now you can view the Image Archive workspace on one monitor and use the other monitors to directly access frequently used windows, such as image tools or the StudioLine Explorer. Another option would be to launch multiple instances of StudioLine by choosing "New Instance" from the "File" menu. Move each instance to a different monitor. Now you can work on a web gallery on one monitor and edit images and captions on the other monitor.

If you need to change the file format of a picture, you have to know that this is controlled by the application intended for exporting the image. To use a picture on the Internet, you would commonly limit the maximum picture size and choose the "JPEG" format. This format is supported by all web browsers, while using a very effective compression algorithm to reduce the file size. You can choose the level of compression with the "Image Quality" control. For print or archiving applications, you may want to choose a "loss-less" format, such as "TIFF" and use large image sizes for best-desired resolution.

With this program, you can create web galleries. The galleries are photo albums that you can share with anyone over the Internet or on CD/DVD. StudioLine generates web pages complete with navigation links, which can be viewed with all popular web browsers. It can also publish them directly to a server where your Internet provider has assigned you web space. Each web gallery has an index page showing thumbnail images of all pictures in that gallery. By clicking a thumbnail image, a page will open showing a larger view of that same image concurrently with any narrative text.

The user interface is customizable as well as intuitive, so it is very easy to use.

Pluses: It offers you many features in order to help you manage and edit your photos.

Drawbacks / flaws: Although the red-eye correction works pretty well you can't change the color of the eye, so it will vary from light gray to black.

In conclusion: I enjoyed testing this program; it's a neat photo tool.

version reviewed: 3.8.3