IBM PerfectPhoto is an image editing suite from 1999. It comprises of three main applications:

• Album Explorer
  A photo library tool used to “capture” images from digital cameras and scanners as well as sort and organise photographs stored on your computer.
• Image Editor
  A fully featured image editor with a variety of tools and effects available.
• Gallery Editor
  A tool for creating slideshow galleries in DPG format (IBM proprietary),  Windows executable, animated GIF or Windows Screensave (scr) files.

The software also includes a Macromedia Flash enabled tutorial which guides the user through how to perform various tasks with the software. A traditional user guide is also provided in a Hypertext format (HTM) to be viewed in a web browser such as Internet Explorer, a copy of this user guide is available here.

System Requirements

The software package has the following minimum system requirements as stated in the included ReadMe.txt file:

• 133 MHz Pentium processor (or higher)
• 32 MB RAM
• Available hard-disk space
  • Minimum installation: 20 MB
  • Default (Program files, Sample images, Retouch Navigation
    data): 90 MB
  • All (Program files, Sample images, Retouch Navi. data,
    Online document, Templates, File Transfer Program): 200 MB
• VGA graphics card (640 x 480, 256 colors), XGA graphics card (1024 x 768, 64,000 colors) is recommended.
• Microsoft Windows compatible CD-ROM drive for install
• Microsoft Windows compatible mouse
• Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 (Intel version)

Changelog / Known Issues

The ReadMe.txt file also includes a changelog containing the following items:

• Album Explorer
  • Disk Space dialog’s Disk utilization calculations showed incorrect results for disk partitions with 2G bytes or more space on Windows 95 with no service pack.
• Image Editor
  • Paint fails when applied to images larger than 2000 x 2000 pixels.
• Gallery Editor
  • Screen savers (.scr) executing on Windows NT may occasionally fail when terminating and returning to the system.
• Printing
  • Printing may stop when Image interpolation of Print options is set to Best quality.
• Others
  • File association was not reset even after uninstall of PerfectPhoto.
  • You can not select the Find tab in the Help Topics dialog box that appears when you select Help -> Help topics.

While testing the software in a VMWare virtual machine we experienced no faults or issues when running the software under Microsoft Windows 98 SE.

Extras

The software includes some samples including:

• 16 background music files in MIDI format
• 131 photographs in JPEG format
• 44 sound clips in WAV format

Gallery

Further Reading

• Amazon.com Marketplace Product Page

Test Information

Software was tested and installed from an ISO copy of Computer Buyer April 2002.

Software was run under Microsoft Windows 98SE running in a VMWare Workstation 15 environment with the following spec:

• 256MB RAM
• 10GB HDD
• VMWare SVGA II graphics adapter at a resolution of 1280 by 960
• VMWare sound card with Creative Sound Blaster driver loaded

Around 1 hour has been dedicated so far to the testing of this application.