The book I read to research this post was Visual Quickstart Guide MS Digital Image Suite for Windows 9 by Steve Schwartz which is a very good book I had from the library. This book was published in 2004 so obvious this is quite old software. When this software came out it had new features over the previous version which I’m writing about. The open file list has been renamed the files palette & shares space with the stack. It can be docked, undocked or hidden. There’s an autocrop feature which trims the edges of a crooked picture. There’s an unsharp mask & gaussian blur. The crop command uses a grid rather than a single rectangle. There’s a smart erase which replaces what you are erasing with pixels from another part of the picture. There are marquee, freehand, edge finder & magic wand selection tools. There’s a blending brush tool. There’s a flatten selected objects which is the same as grouping. You can lock objects to protect them. There’s a library where you can store your pictures. There’s photostory lite where you can make a video cd with various media. Finally there’s an archive wizard where you can back up your pictures to cdr or a storage device.
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