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{{Infobox Software
| name                   = Microsoft Digital Image
| logo                   = 
| screenshot             = 
| caption                = 
| discontinued           = yes
| developer              = [[Microsoft]]
| latest release version = 2006 Anniversary Edition (v11)
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2006|09|19|df=yes}}<ref name="2006-anni" />
| operating system       = [[Windows 98 SE]]<br />[[Windows Me]]<br />[[Windows 2000]]<br />[[Windows XP]]<ref name="sysreq">{{cite web
  |url=https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Digital-Image-Suite-2006/dp/system-requirements/B0009G037A/ref=noref/183-4247341-9131405?ie=UTF8&n=229534&s=software
  |title=Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
  |work=System Requirements
  |publisher=Amazon
  |accessdate=18 October 2010}}</ref>
| genre                  = [[Image editing]]
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]] [[commercial software]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/}}
}}
'''Microsoft Digital Image''' was a digital [[image editing]] program created by [[Microsoft]]. It was a successor to [[Microsoft Picture It!]]

Microsoft Digital Image came in three different editions: ''Digital Image Standard'', which offered tools for editing images, ''Digital Image Suite'', which added ''Digital Image Library'' for organizing images and ''Digital Image Suite Plus'', which included tools from Digital Image Suite and the video editing tools of [[Pinnacle Studio]]. Digital Image had support for [[Adobe Photoshop]] [[Photoshop plugin|plugins]]. Later versions also included [[Photo Story]] 3.1.

The latest version of this product was Digital Image 2006. This version had native support for [[Raw image format|Raw camera formats]] from Canon ({{mono|.CRW}}) and Nikon ({{mono|.NEF}}) On 19 September 2006, Microsoft released an "anniversary edition" which offered Windows Vista compatibility, removed raw support, added support for [[Extensible Metadata Platform]] (XMP) metadata.<ref name="2006-anni">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep06/09-19DISAnniversaryPR.mspx 
 |title=Microsoft Celebrates a Decade of Exposing Consumers to the Joys of Digital Photography 
 |work=Microsoft News Center 
 |publisher=Microsoft Corporation 
 |date=19 September 2006 
 |accessdate=28 January 2011 
 |location=Redmond, Washington, United States of America 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311035840/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep06/09-19DISAnniversaryPR.mspx 
 |archivedate=11 March 2011 
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/2007/02/27/digital-image-suite-and-windows-vista.aspx
 |title = Digital Image Suite and Windows Vista
 |work = Windows Live Photo and Video Blog
 |publisher = Microsoft Corporation
 |date = 27 February 2007
 |accessdate = 28 January 2011
 |first = Jason
 |last = Flaks
}}</ref>

The software product was generally well received and praised for its ease of use.<ref name="topten">{{cite web
 |url=https://flashfile9.blogspot.com/2023/03/how-about-exploring-features-and.html
 |title=Digital Image Suite 2006
 |work=TopTenREVIEWS
 |publisher=TechMediaNetwork
 |accessdate=18 October 2010
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://reviews.cnet.com/image-editing/microsoft-digital-image-suite/1707-3634_7-31452878.html
 |title=Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 (Windows) (discontinued)
 |date=13 July 2005
 |work=[[CNET.com]]
 |publisher = CBS Interactive
 |accessdate=18 October 2010
}}</ref><ref name="Grossman">{{cite journal
 |last=Grossman
 |first=Debbie
 |date=Winter 2006
 |title=Suite Deal
 |journal=Popular Photography and Imaging
 |page=96
}}</ref>

On 15 June 2007, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Digital Image suite would be discontinued because most of the feature set in the Digital Image suite of applications had been integrated into newer Microsoft titles and services, including [[Windows Photo Gallery]].<ref name="Fried">{{cite web
 |url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9730156-7.html
 |title=Microsoft axes Digital Image Suite
 |work = [[CNET.com]]
 |publisher = CBS Interactive
 |last=Fried
 |first=Ina
 |date=15 June 2007
 |accessdate=18 October 2010
}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.microsoft.com/products/imaging/default.mspx}}

[[Category:Discontinued Microsoft software|Digital Image]]


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